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

Displaying 21 - 40 of 113

Project Title	Applicant Sort descending	City	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Progressive Heartlands: Religious Liberalism in Small-Town U.S.A.	David Mislin			2021	$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
Joel E. Hendricks and The Analyst: Mathematical Publishing “on the borders of civilization,” 1873–1883	Deborah A. Kent	Des Moines	Polk	2015	$1,000.00
Migrant Education and the Social Construction of Mexican-American Learners in Iowa	Deirdre M. Dougherty			2021	$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
“Whether My Days Be Many or Few”: The Civil War Letters of Matthew Kemper	Donald C. Elder III	Portales, NM		2019	$1,000.00
“We Came Home Together:” Black Veterans and Community Building in Iowa	Dwain Coleman			2021	$1,000.00
The Farmers’ Lawyers: Small-Town Lawyers and Rural Identity	Emily A. Prifogle	Bloomington, IN		2018	$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
Media and the Work of Rural Agricultural Women of the Great Plains in WWII	Emily Easton			2023	$1,500.00
Picturing Packing: Historical Photographs of the Iowa Meatpacking Industry	Emily K. Morgan	Ames	Story	2016	$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
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
Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History	Gerald A. Danzer	Itasca, IL		2014	$1,000.00
The Atlantic Northern and Souther Railroad Saga, 1907-1936	H. Roger Grant			2022	$1,000.00
Class Identities and Working-Class Conservatism: A Community Study of Unions, Class, and Politics in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1968	Jason A. Whisler	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$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
America's Forgotten Vice President: The Life and Political Thought of Charles Curtis	Jason Phillips			2022	$1,000.00
Race and Ethnicity in Iowa History	Jeff Bremer	Boone	Boone	2022	$1,000.00
Iowa Frontier Settlement and Market Participation, 1830–1870	Jeff Bremer	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00