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
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 Tama Philharmonic Society’s Iowa Composers Concerts	Marian Wilson Kimber	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
The UNIque Story of the University of Northern Iowa’s Domed Stadium	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2019	$1,000.00
Working Hard and Living Out: Adolescence in Nineteenth-century Dubuque	Jennifer E. Mack	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
The Big Sioux: A Story of Industrial Agriculture, Globalization, and a Small Iowa River	Robert K. Schneiders	Sioux City	Woodbury	2019	$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
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
Bertha Shambaugh: Domestic Life as Artistic Practice	Andrea M. Truitt	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
A Transnational History of Chinese Students in Iowa, 1910s–1930s	Shu Wan	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$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
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
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 Keokuk Teachers Strike of 1970 and the Origins of Iowa’s Public Employment Relations Act	John W. McKerley	Iowa City	Johnson	2018	$1,000.00
Monumental Uplift: Grand Army Veteran Advocacy for Iowa’s Institutions of Learning, 1880–1920	Jonathan D. Neu	Verona, PA		2018	$1,000.00
The Farmers’ Lawyers: Small-Town Lawyers and Rural Identity	Emily A. Prifogle	Bloomington, IN		2018	$1,000.00
Food, Family Farms, and the Crisis of the 1980s	Pamela Riney-Kehrberg	Ames	Story	2018	$1,000.00
From Bioprospecting to Biodiesel: Soy Commodity Frontiers in the Twentieth Century	Rachel C. Steely	Cambridge, MA		2018	$1,000.00
Democracy Has Iowa Roots: Rural Reeducation and New Deal Environmentalism on a Subsistence Homestead	Michael Bowman	Ames	Story	2018	$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