Research Grant for Authors

Education, History, Project Support, Research

Apply for a grant to support historical research on a topic related to Iowa history. Each year, up to 10 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, 2024, for funding period of July 1, 2024 to September 1, 2025

How to Apply

Read the guidelines.
Apply by April 15, 2024.

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 of 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 State Historical Society of Iowa. 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 Awards History

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Project Title	Applicant	City Sort ascending	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
The 1898 American Cereal Company Strike in Cedar Rapids: Gender, Ethnicity, and Labor Activism in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa	Pam Stek	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
The Tama Philharmonic Society’s Iowa Composers Concerts	Marian Wilson Kimber	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
Class Identities and Working-Class Conservatism: A Community Study of Unions, Class, and Politics in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1968	Jason A. Whisler	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
Iowa by the Sea: Long Beach and the Annual Iowa Picnics	Wayne Anderson	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$1,000.00
Working Hard and Living Out: Adolescence in Nineteenth-century Dubuque	Jennifer E. Mack	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
“When the Hens Begin to Lay”: Rural Women in The Woman’s Standard, 1886–1911	Stephanie A. Grossnickle-Batterton	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$1,000.00
Religious Conflict in Southeastern Iowa, 1839–1846	Brady G. Winslow	Fort Worth, TX		2017	$1,000.00
Constructing Nordic Cultural Heritage in Decorah, Iowa: From “Luther College Museum” to “Vesterheim: The National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center	Daniel R. Maher	Fayetteville, AR		2018	$1,000.00
Socialism in Madrid, Iowa, 1910–1920	Thomas F. Jorsch	Fayette	Fayette	2015	$1,000.00
Annie Turner Wittenmyer and the Professionalization of Women’s Paid Labor	Lisa G. Guinn	Fayette	Fayette	2014	$1,000.00
Religious Liberty without RFRA in Iowa	Paul Baumgardner and Brian K. Miller	Ewing, NJ & Arlington, VA		2018	$1,000.00
Iowa’s Role in Ethanol Development before the 1970s Energy Crisis	Jeffrey T. Manuel	Edwardsville, IL		2016	$1,000.00
Joel E. Hendricks and The Analyst: Mathematical Publishing “on the borders of civilization,” 1873–1883	Deborah A. Kent	Des Moines	Polk	2015	$1,000.00
Ferdinand Winslow’s Civil War: Transnational Ties and Complementary Identity	Anders B. Rasmussen	Denmark		2015	$1,000.00
Deep Red Roots: Religion, Ethnicity and the Origins of Sioux County, Iowa’s Conservative Subculture	Andrew Klumpp	Dallas, TX		2018	$1,000.00
Sustaining Progressive Populism: The Iowa Democratic Party in the Wake of the Farm Crisis, 1986–1992	Cory M. Haala	Crystal, MN		2019	$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
Negotiating Downtown: Visions of Urban Renewal in Iowa City, 1960–1972	David S. De La Torre	Coralville	Johnson	2018	$1,000.00
Politics in Paint: The Creation, Destruction, and Restoration of the Cedar Rapids Courthouse Mural	Breanne Robertson	College Park, MD		2014	$1,000.00
Redefining the Flapper: An Examination of Iowan Women in the Roaring Twenties	Marissa Stangl	Cedar Rapids	Linn	2022	$1,000.00