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	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Farming by Rail: Perry G. Holden, Iowa’s Demonstration Trains, and the Rise of Mobile Agricultural Experiment Stations	David D. Vail	Manhattan, KS	2014	$1,000.00
Louis Szathmary, Larger than Life with an Archive to Match	Jill Nussel		2022	$1,000.00
The UNIque Story of the University of Northern Iowa’s Domed Stadium	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN	2019	$1,000.00
Mad for the Stage: The Hyers Sisters and Gilded Age Theater	Kathryn E. Snyder	Williamsburg, VA	2017	$1,000.00
The Atlantic Northern and Souther Railroad Saga, 1907-1936	H. Roger Grant		2022	$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
Coping with Drought in Iowa during the 1890s Depression	Susan Curtis	West Lafayette, IN	2015	$1,000.00
Confronting the Tramp Nuisance: Hobo Life in Iowa, 1890–1930	Nathan Tye	Urbana, IL	2017	$1,000.00
Iowa's Jay "Ding" Darling: The Art of Collaborative Conservation at the Local Level	Matthew Lindaman		2022	$1,000.00
The Return to Ne ko to si ye: Meskwaki Village Life, 1857–1902	Erik D. Gooding	Moorhead, MN	2015	$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
Religious Conflict in Southeastern Iowa, 1839–1846	Brady G. Winslow	Fort Worth, TX	2017	$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
Veterans on the Land: Agriculture, Masculine Work, and the Disabled Veterans of the Great War in Iowa	Evan P. Sullivan	Latham, NY	2019	$1,000.00
Heartland Stories: Rural Iowa Ethnic Churches, 1945–1975	David E. Zwart	Allendale, MI	2017	$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
Lonely Sentinel: A History of Fort Madison, 1808–1813	Patrick J. Jung	Milwaukee, WI	2015	$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