Research Grant for Authors

    Annals of Iowa

    Apply for a grant to support historical research on a topic related to Iowa history. Each year, up to 12 research stipends will be awarded to support research related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Preference is given to proposals that pursue neglected topics or new approaches to more familiar topics.

    Grant recipients will produce an annotated manuscript to be considered for publication in the Annals of Iowa, a scholarly journal published quarterly by the State Historical Society of Iowa.

    Who: Eligible applications include academic and public historians, graduate students, and independent researchers and writers
    What: $1,500
    Application Deadline: April 15, 2022, for the fundering period of July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023

    How to Apply

    1. Read the guidelines.
    2. Apply by April 15, 2022.

    Applications are welcomed from U.S. and international applicants. International applicants must possess either a valid Social Security Number or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).

    Explore the Work fo Past and Current Grant Recipients

    Research Grants for Authors recipients have contributed more than 100 articles to the Annals of Iowa and are frequent contributors to programs throughout the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs. Read articles by grant recipients or find upcoming or past programs that draw on research ranging from Indigenous Iowa to the 1980s Farm Crisis.

    Grant Award History

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    Project Title Applicant City County Fiscal Yearsort ascending Grant Amount
    "I Felt if Things Didn't Change, the World Would Come to an End": Black Iowa Women's Activism During the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1965 Emily Bronswick 2023 $1,500.00
    She was wearing a Scarf: A 2004 University of Iowa Asian Hate Crime Jin Chang Iowa City Johnson 2023 $1,500.00
    Media and the Work of Rural Agricultural Women of the Great Plains in WWII Emily Easton 2023 $1,500.00
    The Professor and his Kingdom: George Herron's Iowa Jeffrey A. Johnson 2023 $1,500.00
    Iowa's Embrace and Resistance to Nationalized Retail Commerce Through Mail Order Catalogs, 1897-1914 Sarah Johnson 2023 $1,500.00
    Decolonizing Seeds to Revitalize Lifeways: Regeneration Through Tallgrass Prairie and Bison, Heirloom Seeds, and Food Sovereignty Daniel R. Maher 2023 $1,500.00
    Mormon Movements in Early Iowa T. Ashton Reynolds 2023 $1,500.00
    Governor at War: A Critical Assessment of Governor Samuel Kirkwood's Wartime Response Victoria B. Stewart 2023 $1,500.00
    "Science with Practice": The Development of Agricultural Science and Education at Iowa State University, 1858-1939 Joshua Tonkel 2023 $1,500.00
    "Red Organizer Held at Marion": The Industrial Works of the World, Criminal Syndicalism, and the Legal Aftermath of WWI in Iowa, 1919-1924 Nathan Tye 2023 $1,500.00
    Iowa's Jay "Ding" Darling: The Art of Collaborative Conservation at the Local Level Matthew Lindaman 2022 $1,000.00
    For the Common Good of All': the Iowa Suffrage Referendum of 1916 and the Fight for its Passage Tracie Grube-Gaurkee 2022 $1,000.00
    Town and Gown in the Cornbelt: The Impact of the Ethnic and Evangelical Student Counterculture in Sioux County, Iowa Justin Vos 2022 $1,000.00
    Pipelines, Private Property, and Populism: Midwestern Landowners and the Opposition to Oil Infrastructure in the 1970s Michael Brickey 2022 $1,000.00
    Iowa's Carnegie Influencers: The Role of Iowans in the Acquisition of Carnegie Grants Shana Stuart Coralville Linn 2022 $1,000.00
    Milk Wars: The Dairy Farmer and the American Dream Kenneth O'Reilly 2022 $1,000.00
    Science on the Prairie: Thomas H. MacBride, Bohumil Shimek and the Formation of American Science Karen Wellner 2022 $1,000.00
    Camp Hantesa, Boone, IA: Summer camp as formative to the lives of girls and women growing up in the 1940s-1970s Stacey Hockett Sherlock Iowa City Johnson 2022 $1,000.00
    Czechs in Iowa: History, Places, and Opportunities for Further Research Martin Nekola 2022 $1,000.00
    Paul Jones and the Price of Freedom in the Free Midwest Winifred Redfearn 2022 $1,000.00

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