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Research Grant for Authors

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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

  1. Read the guidelines.
  2. 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 Grant Amount
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
"Science with Practice": The Development of Agricultural Science and Education at Iowa State University, 1858-1939 Joshua Tonkel 2023 $1,500.00
The Last Holdout to Progress: Straightening the Skunk River, 1908–1920 Joseph W. Otto Norman, OK 2014 $1,000.00
Monumental Uplift: Grand Army Veteran Advocacy for Iowa’s Institutions of Learning, 1880–1920 Jonathan D. Neu Verona, PA 2018 $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
The Women’s Relief Corps and Union Women’s Organizational Activism, 1861–1920 John C. Kennedy Lafayette, IN 2016 $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
Louis Szathmary, Larger than Life with an Archive to Match Jill Nussel 2022 $1,000.00
Working Hard and Living Out: Adolescence in Nineteenth-century Dubuque Jennifer E. Mack Iowa City Johnson 2019 $1,000.00
Iowa’s Role in Ethanol Development before the 1970s Energy Crisis Jeffrey T. Manuel Edwardsville, IL 2016 $1,000.00
Turning Corn into Magic: Iowa’s Post-WWII Place in the “Magic Circle,” 1946-1960 Jeffrey P. Stone 2021 $1,000.00
The Iowa Challenge: The National Farm Organization and the Fate of Agrarian Liberalism Jeffrey Bloodworth 2021 $1,000.00
The Professor and his Kingdom: George Herron's Iowa Jeffrey A. Johnson 2023 $1,500.00
Iowa Frontier Settlement and Market Participation, 1830–1870 Jeff Bremer Ames Story 2016 $1,000.00
Race and Ethnicity in Iowa History Jeff Bremer Boone Boone 2022 $1,000.00
America's Forgotten Vice President: The Life and Political Thought of Charles Curtis Jason Phillips 2022 $1,000.00
“How about some muscle?”: C. H. McCloy and Strength Training Research at the University of Iowa Jason P. Shurley Wales, WI 2019 $1,000.00
Class Identities and Working-Class Conservatism: A Community Study of Unions, Class, and Politics in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1968 Jason A. Whisler Iowa City Johnson 2014 $1,000.00
The Atlantic Northern and Souther Railroad Saga, 1907-1936 H. Roger Grant 2022 $1,000.00
Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History Gerald A. Danzer Itasca, IL 2014 $1,000.00