Funding: State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) Call for Applications. Deadline: 15.04.12

2012/2013 Research Grants
State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI)
Call for Applications

The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) announces a grant program for the 2012/2013 academic year. SHSI will award up to ten stipends of $1,000 each to support original research and interpretive writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Preference will be given to applicants proposing to pursue previously neglected topics or new approaches to or interpretations of previously treated topics.

SHSI invites applicants from a variety of backgrounds, including academic and public historians, graduate students, and independent researchers and writers. Applications will be judged on the basis of their potential for producing work appropriate for publication in _The Annals of Iowa_. Grant recipients will be expected to produce an annotated manuscript targeted for _The Annals of Iowa_, SHSI’s scholarly journal.

Applications for the 2012/2013 awards must be postmarked by April 15, 2012. Download application guidelines from our Web site ( http://www.iowahistory.org/publications/the-annals-of-iowa/research-grants-for-authors.html ) or request guidelines or further information from:

Research Grants
State Historical Society of Iowa
402 Iowa Avenue
Iowa City IA 52240-1806

Phone: 319-335-3931
e-mail: marvin-bergman@uiowa.edu

Marvin Bergman, editor
THE ANNALS OF IOWA
State Historical Society of Iowa
http://www.iowahistory.org