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 descending	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
A Transnational History of Chinese Students in Iowa, 1910s–1930s	Shu Wan	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
She was wearing a Scarf: A 2004 University of Iowa Asian Hate Crime	Jin Chang	Iowa City	Johnson	2023	$1,500.00
“Speaking Truth to Power”: The Story of the Palo 13	Sharon M. Lake	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$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
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
Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History	Gerald A. Danzer	Itasca, IL		2014	$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
Veterans on the Land: Agriculture, Masculine Work, and the Disabled Veterans of the Great War in Iowa	Evan P. Sullivan	Latham, NY		2019	$1,000.00
Voices for Change: Women and Chautauqua at the Turn of the Century	Sarah Bell	Lawrence, KS		2014	$1,000.00
The Queer Pastoral in Iowa: Sexuality and Landscape at the Stone City Art Colony	Christopher Hommerding	Madison, WI		2014	$1,000.00
Community Identity, Rock & Roll, & Baby Boomer Nostalgia in Clear Lake, Iowa	Anna Thompson Hajdik	Madison, WI		2017	$1,000.00
Farming by Rail: Perry G. Holden, Iowa’s Demonstration Trains, and the Rise of Mobile Agricultural Experiment Stations	David D. Vail	Manhattan, KS		2014	$1,000.00
Lonely Sentinel: A History of Fort Madison, 1808–1813	Patrick J. Jung	Milwaukee, WI		2015	$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
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
The Last Holdout to Progress: Straightening the Skunk River, 1908–1920	Joseph W. Otto	Norman, OK		2014	$1,000.00
Getting Rid of the Gumbo: Good Roads Trains, “Scientific Localism” and the Culture of Iowa Road Improvement, 1904–1927	Amanda L. Katz	Pittsburgh, PA		2019	$1,000.00
“Whether My Days Be Many or Few”: The Civil War Letters of Matthew Kemper	Donald C. Elder III	Portales, NM		2019	$1,000.00
Iowans in the Cold War	Kevin Y. Kim	Seattle, WA		2018	$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