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	City	County Sort ascending	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
“Speaking Truth to Power”: The Story of the Palo 13	Sharon M. Lake	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$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 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
“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
Grant Wood and Hollywood	Sandra Hudson	Iowa City	Johnson	2022	$1,000.00
The 1898 American Cereal Company Strike in Cedar Rapids: Gender, Ethnicity, and Labor Activism in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa	Pam Stek	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
The Tama Philharmonic Society’s Iowa Composers Concerts	Marian Wilson Kimber	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$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
Socialism in Madrid, Iowa, 1910–1920	Thomas F. Jorsch	Fayette	Fayette	2015	$1,000.00
Annie Turner Wittenmyer and the Professionalization of Women’s Paid Labor	Lisa G. Guinn	Fayette	Fayette	2014	$1,000.00
Race and Ethnicity in Iowa History	Jeff Bremer	Boone	Boone	2022	$1,000.00
The Professional Life of S. Laura Ensign, Iowa Educator	Thomas Connors	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2022	$1,000.00
Women’s Equality and the Feminization of Iowa’s One-Room Schools	Ashley N. Loper	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	2017	$1,000.00
Strangers in a Familiar Land: Pioneers and the Meskwaki Settlement in Early Iowa, 1832–1896	Chelsea Tegels	Arlington, VA		2017	$1,000.00
The Atlantic Northern and Souther Railroad Saga, 1907-1936	H. Roger Grant			2022	$1,000.00
Confronting the Tramp Nuisance: Hobo Life in Iowa, 1890–1930	Nathan Tye	Urbana, IL		2017	$1,000.00