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	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
America's Forgotten Vice President: The Life and Political Thought of Charles Curtis	Jason Phillips	2022	$1,000.00
Louis Szathmary, Larger than Life with an Archive to Match	Jill Nussel	2022	$1,000.00
The Atlantic Northern and Souther Railroad Saga, 1907-1936	H. Roger Grant	2022	$1,000.00
Iowa's Jay "Ding" Darling: The Art of Collaborative Conservation at the Local Level	Matthew Lindaman	2022	$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
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
"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
Pipelines, Private Property, and Populism: Midwestern Landowners and the Opposition to Oil Infrastructure in the 1970s	Michael Brickey	2022	$1,000.00
Media and the Work of Rural Agricultural Women of the Great Plains in WWII	Emily Easton	2023	$1,500.00
Milk Wars: The Dairy Farmer and the American Dream	Kenneth O'Reilly	2022	$1,000.00
The Professor and his Kingdom: George Herron's Iowa	Jeffrey A. Johnson	2023	$1,500.00
Science on the Prairie: Thomas H. MacBride, Bohumil Shimek and the Formation of American Science	Karen Wellner	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
Decolonizing Seeds to Revitalize Lifeways: Regeneration Through Tallgrass Prairie and Bison, Heirloom Seeds, and Food Sovereignty	Daniel R. Maher	2023	$1,500.00
Czechs in Iowa: History, Places, and Opportunities for Further Research	Martin Nekola	2022	$1,000.00
Mormon Movements in Early Iowa	T. Ashton Reynolds	2023	$1,500.00
Paul Jones and the Price of Freedom in the Free Midwest	Winifred Redfearn	2022	$1,000.00
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