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 Sort ascending	County	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Lonely Sentinel: A History of Fort Madison, 1808–1813	Patrick J. Jung	Milwaukee, WI		2015	$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
The Queer Pastoral in Iowa: Sexuality and Landscape at the Stone City Art Colony	Christopher Hommerding	Madison, WI		2014	$1,000.00
Community Identity, Rock & Roll, & Baby Boomer Nostalgia in Clear Lake, Iowa	Anna Thompson Hajdik	Madison, WI		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
The Women’s Relief Corps and Union Women’s Organizational Activism, 1861–1920	John C. Kennedy	Lafayette, IN		2016	$1,000.00
Railroad Maps as Windows to Iowa History	Gerald A. Danzer	Itasca, IL		2014	$1,000.00
Bertha Shambaugh: Domestic Life as Artistic Practice	Andrea M. Truitt	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
A Transnational History of Chinese Students in Iowa, 1910s–1930s	Shu Wan	Iowa City	Johnson	2019	$1,000.00
She was wearing a Scarf: A 2004 University of Iowa Asian Hate Crime	Jin Chang	Iowa City	Johnson	2023	$1,500.00
“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