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	Grant Amount Sort ascending
Ferdinand Winslow’s Civil War: Transnational Ties and Complementary Identity	Anders B. Rasmussen	Denmark		2015	$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
Paul Jones and the Price of Freedom in the Free Midwest	Winifred Redfearn			2022	$1,000.00
“Whether My Days Be Many or Few”: The Civil War Letters of Matthew Kemper	Donald C. Elder III	Portales, NM		2019	$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 Last Holdout to Progress: Straightening the Skunk River, 1908–1920	Joseph W. Otto	Norman, OK		2014	$1,000.00
Campaigning for the Farm: Electoral Rhetoric and the Farm Crisis, 1975–1988	Rebecca Stoil	Baltimore, MD		2015	$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 Professional Life of S. Laura Ensign, Iowa Educator	Thomas Connors	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2022	$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
Constructing Nordic Cultural Heritage in Decorah, Iowa: From “Luther College Museum” to “Vesterheim: The National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center	Daniel R. Maher	Fayetteville, AR		2018	$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
Americanizing the Heartland: The Quest for Immigrant Loyalty in Iowa during World War I	Robert F. Zeidel	Afton, MN		2015	$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
Grant Wood and Hollywood	Sandra Hudson	Iowa City	Johnson	2022	$1,000.00
Redefining the Flapper: An Examination of Iowan Women in the Roaring Twenties	Marissa Stangl	Cedar Rapids	Linn	2022	$1,000.00
Getting Rid of the Gumbo: Good Roads Trains, “Scientific Localism” and the Culture of Iowa Road Improvement, 1904–1927	Amanda L. Katz	Pittsburgh, PA		2019	$1,000.00
The Company, the Independent, and the International: Changing Ideas of Unionism in Iowa’s Meatpacking Industry,1960–1970	Michelle Martindale	West Lafayette, IN		2018	$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
Iowa Frontier Settlement and Market Participation, 1830–1870	Jeff Bremer	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00