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Research Grant for Authors

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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

  1. Read the guidelines.
  2. 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
“Eyes Right” in Des Moines: Rearing Respectability at the Blue Triangle YWCA, 1919–1947 Sarah J. Eikleberry Iowa City Johnson 2014 $1,000.00
Preserving Sacred Spaces: A History of Effigy Mounds National Monument, 1890–1999 Mary Wise Iowa City Johnson 2016 $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
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
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
Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History Gerald A. Danzer Itasca, IL 2014 $1,000.00
The Women’s Relief Corps and Union Women’s Organizational Activism, 1861–1920 John C. Kennedy Lafayette, IN 2016 $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
Voices for Change: Women and Chautauqua at the Turn of the Century Sarah Bell Lawrence, KS 2014 $1,000.00
Community Identity, Rock & Roll, & Baby Boomer Nostalgia in Clear Lake, Iowa Anna Thompson Hajdik Madison, WI 2017 $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
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
Lonely Sentinel: A History of Fort Madison, 1808–1813 Patrick J. Jung Milwaukee, WI 2015 $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
Goodbye to the 4-F’s: Iowa’s Judy Klemesrud and the Transformation in News Coverage of American Women Wayne Svoboda New York, NY 2016 $1,000.00
The Last Holdout to Progress: Straightening the Skunk River, 1908–1920 Joseph W. Otto Norman, OK 2014 $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
“Whether My Days Be Many or Few”: The Civil War Letters of Matthew Kemper Donald C. Elder III Portales, NM 2019 $1,000.00
Iowans in the Cold War Kevin Y. Kim Seattle, WA 2018 $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