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	County	Fiscal year Sort ascending	Grant Amount
Negotiating Downtown: Visions of Urban Renewal in Iowa City, 1960–1972	David S. De La Torre	Coralville	Johnson	2018	$1,000.00
Iowans in the Cold War	Kevin Y. Kim	Seattle, WA		2018	$1,000.00
Religious Liberty without RFRA in Iowa	Paul Baumgardner and Brian K. Miller	Ewing, NJ & Arlington, VA		2018	$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
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
The Social, Political, and Religious Attitudes of Iowa Lutheran Laypersons during the 1920s and 1930s	Mark A. Granquist	St. Paul, MN		2017	$1,000.00
Community Identity, Rock & Roll, & Baby Boomer Nostalgia in Clear Lake, Iowa	Anna Thompson Hajdik	Madison, WI		2017	$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
Mad for the Stage: The Hyers Sisters and Gilded Age Theater	Kathryn E. Snyder	Williamsburg, VA		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
Confronting the Tramp Nuisance: Hobo Life in Iowa, 1890–1930	Nathan Tye	Urbana, IL		2017	$1,000.00
Religious Conflict in Southeastern Iowa, 1839–1846	Brady G. Winslow	Fort Worth, TX		2017	$1,000.00
Heartland Stories: Rural Iowa Ethnic Churches, 1945–1975	David E. Zwart	Allendale, MI		2017	$1,000.00
Killing Butler’s Bloodhounds: Iowa Soldiers and an Act of Political Violence in Reconstruction South Carolina	Cormac Broeg	Iowa City	Johnson	2017	$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
Iowa Frontier Settlement and Market Participation, 1830–1870	Jeff Bremer	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Dakota Prisoners, ABCFM Missionaries, and the Davenport Press	Linda M. Clemmons	Bloomington, IL		2016	$1,000.00
Creating a Patchwork Quilt of a Drainage System: Reclamation and the hanging Landscape of Western Iowa’s Little Sioux River Valley	Maria E. Howe	Ames	Story	2016	$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
The Camp Dodger	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2016	$1,000.00