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 Sort descending	Applicant	City	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Paul Jones and the Price of Freedom in the Free Midwest	Winifred Redfearn			2022	$1,000.00
Picturing Packing: Historical Photographs of the Iowa Meatpacking Industry	Emily K. Morgan	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Pipelines, Private Property, and Populism: Midwestern Landowners and the Opposition to Oil Infrastructure in the 1970s	Michael Brickey			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
Preserving Sacred Spaces: A History of Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1890–1999	Mary Wise	Iowa City	Johnson	2016	$1,000.00
Progressive Heartlands: Religious Liberalism in Small-Town U.S.A.	David Mislin			2021	$1,000.00
Race and Ethnicity in Iowa History	Jeff Bremer	Boone	Boone	2022	$1,000.00
Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History	Gerald A. Danzer	Itasca, IL		2014	$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
Redefining the Flapper: An Examination of Iowan Women in the Roaring Twenties	Marissa Stangl	Cedar Rapids	Linn	2022	$1,000.00
Religion and Reform in Iowa’s “Progressive City,” 1890–1910	Paul Emory Putz	Waco, TX		2016	$1,000.00
Religious Conflict in Southeastern Iowa, 1839–1846	Brady G. Winslow	Fort Worth, TX		2017	$1,000.00
Religious Liberty without RFRA in Iowa	Paul Baumgardner and Brian K. Miller	Ewing, NJ & Arlington, VA		2018	$1,000.00
Revisiting Race Uplift’s Impact on Black Women in Higher Education: Esther J. Walls’s Experience at the University of Iowa in the Mid-Twentieth Century	Dellyssa M. Edinboro	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
Science on the Prairie: Thomas H. MacBride, Bohumil Shimek and the Formation of American Science	Karen Wellner			2022	$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
Socialism in Madrid, Iowa, 1910–1920	Thomas F. Jorsch	Fayette	Fayette	2015	$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
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
The 1898 American Cereal Company Strike in Cedar Rapids: Gender, Ethnicity, and Labor Activism in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa	Pam Stek	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00