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 Sort descending	City	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Dakota Prisoners, ABCFM Missionaries, and the Davenport Press	Linda M. Clemmons	Bloomington, IL		2016	$1,000.00
Annie Turner Wittenmyer and the Professionalization of Women’s Paid Labor	Lisa G. Guinn	Fayette	Fayette	2014	$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 Tama Philharmonic Society’s Iowa Composers Concerts	Marian Wilson Kimber	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
Redefining the Flapper: An Examination of Iowan Women in the Roaring Twenties	Marissa Stangl	Cedar Rapids	Linn	2022	$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
Czechs in Iowa: History, Places, and Opportunities for Further Research	Martin Nekola			2022	$1,000.00
Preserving Sacred Spaces: A History of Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1890–1999	Mary Wise	Iowa City	Johnson	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
Iowa's Jay "Ding" Darling: The Art of Collaborative Conservation at the Local Level	Matthew Lindaman			2022	$1,000.00
The Camp Dodger	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2016	$1,000.00
The UNIque Story of the University of Northern Iowa’s Domed Stadium	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2019	$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
Pipelines, Private Property, and Populism: Midwestern Landowners and the Opposition to Oil Infrastructure in the 1970s	Michael Brickey			2022	$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 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
Churchwomen, Church Building, and Print Culture in the Construction of Black Citizenship in Iowa, 1868-1900	Mila W. Kaut			2021	$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
Confronting the Tramp Nuisance: Hobo Life in Iowa, 1890–1930	Nathan Tye	Urbana, IL		2017	$1,000.00
"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