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

Displaying 1 - 20 of 113

Project Title	Applicant	City	County Sort ascending	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
The Big Sioux: A Story of Industrial Agriculture, Globalization, and a Small Iowa River	Robert K. Schneiders	Sioux City	Woodbury	2019	$1,000.00
Iowa Frontier Settlement and Market Participation, 1830–1870	Jeff Bremer	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Creating a Patchwork Quilt of a Drainage System: Reclamation and the hanging Landscape of Western Iowa’s Little Sioux River Valley	Maria E. Howe	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Food, Family Farms, and the Crisis of the 1980s	Pamela Riney-Kehrberg	Ames	Story	2018	$1,000.00
A Soldier’s Story: Francis Webster and the Third Iowa Infantry during World War I	Matthew J. Margis	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Picturing Packing: Historical Photographs of the Iowa Meatpacking Industry	Emily K. Morgan	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Empowerment, Social Uplift, and Community: Pauline Humphrey and the Crescent School of Beauty Culture	Ashley R. Garrin	Ames	Story	2014	$1,000.00
Northwest Iowa during the Civil War: Sioux Uprising and Creation of the Northern Border Brigade	Ben Chase	Ames	Story	2017	$1,000.00
Democracy Has Iowa Roots: Rural Reeducation and New Deal Environmentalism on a Subsistence Homestead	Michael Bowman	Ames	Story	2018	$1,000.00
From Military Reporter to “Mary Manners”: The Unbounded Journalism of Dorothy Ashby Pownall	Tracy Lucht	Ames	Story	2015	$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
Redefining the Flapper: An Examination of Iowan Women in the Roaring Twenties	Marissa Stangl	Cedar Rapids	Linn	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
The Keokuk Teachers Strike of 1970 and the Origins of Iowa’s Public Employment Relations Act	John W. McKerley	Iowa City	Johnson	2018	$1,000.00
“Eyes Right” in Des Moines: Rearing Respectability at the Blue Triangle YWCA, 1919–1947	Sarah J. Eikleberry	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
Preserving Sacred Spaces: A History of Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1890–1999	Mary Wise	Iowa City	Johnson	2016	$1,000.00
Killing Butler’s Bloodhounds: Iowa Soldiers and an Act of Political Violence in Reconstruction South Carolina	Cormac Broeg	Iowa City	Johnson	2017	$1,000.00
Lost in the Heartland: Missing Children, the Midwestern Character, and the Boy on the Milk Carton	Paul Mokrzycki	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
Revisiting Race Uplift’s Impact on Black Women in Higher Education: Esther J. Walls’s Experience at the University of Iowa in the Mid-Twentieth Century	Dellyssa M. Edinboro	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
Grant Wood and Hollywood	Sandra Hudson	Iowa City	Johnson	2022	$1,000.00