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 1 - 20 of 113

Project Title Sort ascending	Applicant	City	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
“Whether My Days Be Many or Few”: The Civil War Letters of Matthew Kemper	Donald C. Elder III	Portales, NM		2019	$1,000.00
“When the Hens Begin to Lay”: Rural Women in The Woman’s Standard, 1886–1911	Stephanie A. Grossnickle-Batterton	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$1,000.00
“We Came Home Together:” Black Veterans and Community Building in Iowa	Dwain Coleman			2021	$1,000.00
“Speaking Truth to Power”: The Story of the Palo 13	Sharon M. Lake	Iowa City	Johnson	2015	$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
“Eyes Right” in Des Moines: Rearing Respectability at the Blue Triangle YWCA, 1919–1947	Sarah J. Eikleberry	Iowa City	Johnson	2014	$1,000.00
Working Hard and Living Out: Adolescence in Nineteenth-century Dubuque	Jennifer E. Mack	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$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
Voices for Change: Women and Chautauqua at the Turn of the Century	Sarah Bell	Lawrence, KS		2014	$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
Union Memory of the Civil War: An Iowa Case Study	Robert J. Cook	United Kingdom		2014	$1,000.00
Turning Corn into Magic: Iowa’s Post-WWII Place in the “Magic Circle,” 1946-1960	Jeffrey P. Stone			2021	$1,000.00
Town and Gown in the Cornbelt: The Impact of the Ethnic and Evangelical Student Counterculture in Sioux County, Iowa	Justin Vos			2022	$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
The UNIque Story of the University of Northern Iowa’s Domed Stadium	Matthew R. Lindaman	Winona, MN		2019	$1,000.00
The Trans-Pacific Sojourn of Hong Kong Writers and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the Cold War Era	Mung Ting Chung	Austin, TX		2017	$1,000.00
The Tama Philharmonic Society’s Iowa Composers Concerts	Marian Wilson Kimber	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
The Social, Political, and Religious Attitudes of Iowa Lutheran Laypersons during the 1920s and 1930s	Mark A. Granquist	St. Paul, MN		2017	$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
The Queer Pastoral in Iowa: Sexuality and Landscape at the Stone City Art Colony	Christopher Hommerding	Madison, WI		2014	$1,000.00