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	Fiscal year	Grant Amount Sort ascending
"I Felt if Things Didn't Change, the World Would Come to an End": Black Iowa Women's Activism During the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1965	Emily Bronswick			2023	$1,500.00
She was wearing a Scarf: A 2004 University of Iowa Asian Hate Crime	Jin Chang	Iowa City	Johnson	2023	$1,500.00
Media and the Work of Rural Agricultural Women of the Great Plains in WWII	Emily Easton			2023	$1,500.00
The Professor and his Kingdom: George Herron's Iowa	Jeffrey A. Johnson			2023	$1,500.00
Iowa's Embrace and Resistance to Nationalized Retail Commerce Through Mail Order Catalogs, 1897-1914	Sarah Johnson			2023	$1,500.00
Decolonizing Seeds to Revitalize Lifeways: Regeneration Through Tallgrass Prairie and Bison, Heirloom Seeds, and Food Sovereignty	Daniel R. Maher			2023	$1,500.00
Mormon Movements in Early Iowa	T. Ashton Reynolds			2023	$1,500.00
Governor at War: A Critical Assessment of Governor Samuel Kirkwood's Wartime Response	Victoria B. Stewart			2023	$1,500.00
"Science with Practice": The Development of Agricultural Science and Education at Iowa State University, 1858-1939	Joshua Tonkel			2023	$1,500.00
"Red Organizer Held at Marion": The Industrial Works of the World, Criminal Syndicalism, and the Legal Aftermath of WWI in Iowa, 1919-1924	Nathan Tye			2023	$1,500.00
Town and Gown in the Cornbelt: The Impact of the Ethnic and Evangelical Student Counterculture in Sioux County, Iowa	Justin Vos			2022	$1,000.00
Lost Lake: A Deep Map of a Farm Field	Kristen Greteman			2021	$1,000.00
Bertha Shambaugh: Domestic Life as Artistic Practice	Andrea M. Truitt	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
Union Memory of the Civil War: An Iowa Case Study	Robert J. Cook	United Kingdom		2014	$1,000.00
Lonely Sentinel: A History of Fort Madison, 1808–1813	Patrick J. Jung	Milwaukee, WI		2015	$1,000.00
Picturing Packing: Historical Photographs of the Iowa Meatpacking Industry	Emily K. Morgan	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Pipelines, Private Property, and Populism: Midwestern Landowners and the Opposition to Oil Infrastructure in the 1970s	Michael Brickey			2022	$1,000.00
Governor Harold Hughes, The Iowa Council on Alcohol Project, and Changing Federal Public Policy on Alcoholism in 1960s America	Kelsey Ensign			2021	$1,000.00
A Transnational History of Chinese Students in Iowa, 1910s–1930s	Shu Wan	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History	Gerald A. Danzer	Itasca, IL		2014	$1,000.00