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 Sort ascending	City	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Paul Jones and the Price of Freedom in the Free Midwest	Winifred Redfearn			2022	$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
Iowa by the Sea: Long Beach and the Annual Iowa Picnics	Wayne Anderson	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$1,000.00
Governor at War: A Critical Assessment of Governor Samuel Kirkwood's Wartime Response	Victoria B. Stewart			2023	$1,500.00
From Military Reporter to “Mary Manners”: The Unbounded Journalism of Dorothy Ashby Pownall	Tracy Lucht	Ames	Story	2015	$1,000.00
For the Common Good of All': the Iowa Suffrage Referendum of 1916 and the Fight for its Passage	Tracie Grube-Gaurkee			2022	$1,000.00
Socialism in Madrid, Iowa, 1910–1920	Thomas F. Jorsch	Fayette	Fayette	2015	$1,000.00
The Professional Life of S. Laura Ensign, Iowa Educator	Thomas Connors	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2022	$1,000.00
Mormon Movements in Early Iowa	T. Ashton Reynolds			2023	$1,500.00
Reclaiming the Hearts and Minds: Hungarian and Romanian Participants in the Iowa International Writing Program during the Cold War (1967–1989)	Szabolcs László	Bloomington, IN		2018	$1,000.00
Coping with Drought in Iowa during the 1890s Depression	Susan Curtis	West Lafayette, IN		2015	$1,000.00
“When the Hens Begin to Lay”: Rural Women in The Woman’s Standard, 1886–1911	Stephanie A. Grossnickle-Batterton	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
A Transnational History of Chinese Students in Iowa, 1910s–1930s	Shu Wan	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
“Speaking Truth to Power”: The Story of the Palo 13	Sharon M. Lake	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$1,000.00
Iowa's Carnegie Influencers: The Role of Iowans in the Acquisition of Carnegie Grants	Shana Stuart	Coralville	Linn	2022	$1,000.00
Iowa's Embrace and Resistance to Nationalized Retail Commerce Through Mail Order Catalogs, 1897-1914	Sarah Johnson			2023	$1,500.00
Manicuring Midwestern Girlhood in Black Des Moines, 1915-1950	Sarah J. Eikleberry			2021	$1,000.00
“Eyes Right” in Des Moines: Rearing Respectability at the Blue Triangle YWCA, 1919–1947	Sarah J. Eikleberry	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
Voices for Change: Women and Chautauqua at the Turn of the Century	Sarah Bell	Lawrence, KS		2014	$1,000.00