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	City Sort descending	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Picturing Packing: Historical Photographs of the Iowa Meatpacking Industry	Emily K. Morgan	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Empowerment, Social Uplift, and Community: Pauline Humphrey and the Crescent School of Beauty Culture	Ashley R. Garrin	Ames	Story	2014	$1,000.00
Northwest Iowa during the Civil War: Sioux Uprising and Creation of the Northern Border Brigade	Ben Chase	Ames	Story	2017	$1,000.00
Strangers in a Familiar Land: Pioneers and the Meskwaki Settlement in Early Iowa, 1832–1896	Chelsea Tegels	Arlington, VA		2017	$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
Campaigning for the Farm: Electoral Rhetoric and the Farm Crisis, 1975–1988	Rebecca Stoil	Baltimore, MD		2015	$1,000.00
Dakota Prisoners, ABCFM Missionaries, and the Davenport Press	Linda M. Clemmons	Bloomington, IL		2016	$1,000.00
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
The Farmers’ Lawyers: Small-Town Lawyers and Rural Identity	Emily A. Prifogle	Bloomington, IN		2018	$1,000.00
Race and Ethnicity in Iowa History	Jeff Bremer	Boone	Boone	2022	$1,000.00
From Bioprospecting to Biodiesel: Soy Commodity Frontiers in the Twentieth Century	Rachel C. Steely	Cambridge, MA		2018	$1,000.00
The Professional Life of S. Laura Ensign, Iowa Educator	Thomas Connors	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2022	$1,000.00
Women’s Equality and the Feminization of Iowa’s One-Room Schools	Ashley N. Loper	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2017	$1,000.00
Redefining the Flapper: An Examination of Iowan Women in the Roaring Twenties	Marissa Stangl	Cedar Rapids	Linn	2022	$1,000.00
Politics in Paint: The Creation, Destruction, and Restoration of the Cedar Rapids Courthouse Mural	Breanne Robertson	College Park, MD		2014	$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
Negotiating Downtown: Visions of Urban Renewal in Iowa City, 1960–1972	David S. De La Torre	Coralville	Johnson	2018	$1,000.00
Sustaining Progressive Populism: The Iowa Democratic Party in the Wake of the Farm Crisis, 1986–1992	Cory M. Haala	Crystal, MN		2019	$1,000.00
Deep Red Roots: Religion, Ethnicity and the Origins of Sioux County, Iowa’s Conservative Subculture	Andrew Klumpp	Dallas, TX		2018	$1,000.00
Ferdinand Winslow’s Civil War: Transnational Ties and Complementary Identity	Anders B. Rasmussen	Denmark		2015	$1,000.00