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 descending
“We Came Home Together:” Black Veterans and Community Building in Iowa	Dwain Coleman			2021	$1,000.00
Iowans in the Cold War	Kevin Y. Kim	Seattle, WA		2018	$1,000.00
Annie Turner Wittenmyer and the Professionalization of Women’s Paid Labor	Lisa G. Guinn	Fayette	Fayette	2014	$1,000.00
From Military Reporter to “Mary Manners”: The Unbounded Journalism of Dorothy Ashby Pownall	Tracy Lucht	Ames	Story	2015	$1,000.00
Preserving Sacred Spaces: A History of Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1890–1999	Mary Wise	Iowa City	Johnson	2016	$1,000.00
Camp Hantesa, Boone, IA: Summer camp as formative to the lives of girls and women growing up in the 1940s-1970s	Stacey Hockett Sherlock	Iowa City	Johnson	2022	$1,000.00
The Iowa Challenge: The National Farm Organization and the Fate of Agrarian Liberalism	Jeffrey Bloodworth			2021	$1,000.00
Religious Liberty without RFRA in Iowa	Paul Baumgardner and Brian K. Miller	Ewing, NJ & Arlington, VA		2018	$1,000.00
The Queer Pastoral in Iowa: Sexuality and Landscape at the Stone City Art Colony	Christopher Hommerding	Madison, WI		2014	$1,000.00
The Making of a Midwestern Catholicism: Transatlantic Identities, Ethnicity, and Catholic Culture in Iowa City, 1840–1940	Michael J. Pfeifer	Sunnyside, NY		2015	$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
Czechs in Iowa: History, Places, and Opportunities for Further Research	Martin Nekola			2022	$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
Deep Red Roots: Religion, Ethnicity and the Origins of Sioux County, Iowa’s Conservative Subculture	Andrew Klumpp	Dallas, TX		2018	$1,000.00
Lost in the Heartland: Missing Children, the Midwestern Character, and the Boy on the Milk Carton	Paul Mokrzycki	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
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