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	County	Fiscal year Sort descending	Grant Amount
“Speaking Truth to Power”: The Story of the Palo 13	Sharon M. Lake	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$1,000.00
From Military Reporter to “Mary Manners”: The Unbounded Journalism of Dorothy Ashby Pownall	Tracy Lucht	Ames	Story	2015	$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
Ferdinand Winslow’s Civil War: Transnational Ties and Complementary Identity	Anders B. Rasmussen	Denmark		2015	$1,000.00
Campaigning for the Farm: Electoral Rhetoric and the Farm Crisis, 1975–1988	Rebecca Stoil	Baltimore, MD		2015	$1,000.00
Americanizing the Heartland: The Quest for Immigrant Loyalty in Iowa during World War I	Robert F. Zeidel	Afton, MN		2015	$1,000.00
Iowa Frontier Settlement and Market Participation, 1830–1870	Jeff Bremer	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Dakota Prisoners, ABCFM Missionaries, and the Davenport Press	Linda M. Clemmons	Bloomington, IL		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
The Women’s Relief Corps and Union Women’s Organizational Activism, 1861–1920	John C. Kennedy	Lafayette, IN		2016	$1,000.00
The Camp Dodger	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2016	$1,000.00
Iowa’s Role in Ethanol Development before the 1970s Energy Crisis	Jeffrey T. Manuel	Edwardsville, IL		2016	$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
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
Religion and Reform in Iowa’s “Progressive City,” 1890–1910	Paul Emory Putz	Waco, TX		2016	$1,000.00
Goodbye to the 4-F’s: Iowa’s Judy Klemesrud and the Transformation in News Coverage of American Women	Wayne Svoboda	New York, NY		2016	$1,000.00
Preserving Sacred Spaces: A History of Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1890–1999	Mary Wise	Iowa City	Johnson	2016	$1,000.00
Community Identity, Rock & Roll, & Baby Boomer Nostalgia in Clear Lake, Iowa	Anna Thompson Hajdik	Madison, WI		2017	$1,000.00
Women’s Equality and the Feminization of Iowa’s One-Room Schools	Ashley N. Loper	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2017	$1,000.00