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 Sort descending	Applicant	City	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
The Atlantic Northern and Souther Railroad Saga, 1907-1936	H. Roger Grant			2022	$1,000.00
The Big Sioux: A Story of Industrial Agriculture, Globalization, and a Small Iowa River	Robert K. Schneiders	Sioux City	Woodbury	2019	$1,000.00
The Camp Dodger	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2016	$1,000.00
The Company, the Independent, and the International: Changing Ideas of Unionism in Iowa’s Meatpacking Industry,1960–1970	Michelle Martindale	West Lafayette, IN		2018	$1,000.00
The Farmers’ Lawyers: Small-Town Lawyers and Rural Identity	Emily A. Prifogle	Bloomington, IN		2018	$1,000.00
The Iowa Challenge: The National Farm Organization and the Fate of Agrarian Liberalism	Jeffrey Bloodworth			2021	$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
The Land Between Two Rivers: Cartographic Caricatures of the Present-Day State of Iowa, 1845-2020	Amanda Murphyao			2021	$1,000.00
The Last Holdout to Progress: Straightening the Skunk River, 1908–1920	Joseph W. Otto	Norman, OK		2014	$1,000.00
The Making of a Midwestern Catholicism: Transatlantic Identities, Ethnicity, and Catholic Culture in Iowa City, 1840–1940	Michael J. Pfeifer	Sunnyside, NY		2015	$1,000.00
The Middle West and the Heartland of American Wrestling during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era	Nicholas Porter	St. Louis, MO		2016	$1,000.00
The Professional Life of S. Laura Ensign, Iowa Educator	Thomas Connors	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2022	$1,000.00
The Professor and his Kingdom: George Herron's Iowa	Jeffrey A. Johnson			2023	$1,500.00
The Queer Pastoral in Iowa: Sexuality and Landscape at the Stone City Art Colony	Christopher Hommerding	Madison, WI		2014	$1,000.00
The Return to Ne ko to si ye: Meskwaki Village Life, 1857–1902	Erik D. Gooding	Moorhead, MN		2015	$1,000.00
The Social, Political, and Religious Attitudes of Iowa Lutheran Laypersons during the 1920s and 1930s	Mark A. Granquist	St. Paul, MN		2017	$1,000.00
The Tama Philharmonic Society’s Iowa Composers Concerts	Marian Wilson Kimber	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
The Trans-Pacific Sojourn of Hong Kong Writers and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the Cold War Era	Mung Ting Chung	Austin, TX		2017	$1,000.00
The UNIque Story of the University of Northern Iowa’s Domed Stadium	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2019	$1,000.00
The Women’s Relief Corps and Union Women’s Organizational Activism, 1861–1920	John C. Kennedy	Lafayette, IN		2016	$1,000.00