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 Sort ascending	City	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
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
The Return to Ne ko to si ye: Meskwaki Village Life, 1857–1902	Erik D. Gooding	Moorhead, MN		2015	$1,000.00
Picturing Packing: Historical Photographs of the Iowa Meatpacking Industry	Emily K. Morgan	Ames	Story	2016	$1,000.00
Media and the Work of Rural Agricultural Women of the Great Plains in WWII	Emily Easton			2023	$1,500.00
"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
The Farmers’ Lawyers: Small-Town Lawyers and Rural Identity	Emily A. Prifogle	Bloomington, IN		2018	$1,000.00
“We Came Home Together:” Black Veterans and Community Building in Iowa	Dwain Coleman			2021	$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
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
Migrant Education and the Social Construction of Mexican-American Learners in Iowa	Deirdre M. Dougherty			2021	$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
Negotiating Downtown: Visions of Urban Renewal in Iowa City, 1960–1972	David S. De La Torre	Coralville	Johnson	2018	$1,000.00
Progressive Heartlands: Religious Liberalism in Small-Town U.S.A.	David Mislin			2021	$1,000.00
Food for My Enemies: The First Friendship Train in Iowa	David Mills			2021	$1,000.00
Heartland Stories: Rural Iowa Ethnic Churches, 1945–1975	David E. Zwart	Allendale, MI		2017	$1,000.00
Farming by Rail: Perry G. Holden, Iowa’s Demonstration Trains, and the Rise of Mobile Agricultural Experiment Stations	David D. Vail	Manhattan, KS		2014	$1,000.00
Decolonizing Seeds to Revitalize Lifeways: Regeneration Through Tallgrass Prairie and Bison, Heirloom Seeds, and Food Sovereignty	Daniel R. Maher			2023	$1,500.00
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
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
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