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Contact: Jeff
Morgan, Jeff.Morgan@iowa.gov,
(515) 281-3858
(DES
MOINES) – The State Historical Society
of Iowa today announced the eight recipients of its
2006-2007 research grants, selected from a pool of
42 applicants. Each recipient will receive $1,000
to support research on an Iowa history topic.
Launched in 1995 with funding from the Sesquicentennial
Commission, and funded in recent years by the State
Historical Society, Inc., this grant program has supported
the work of more than 75 scholars. Submission of a
manuscript suitable for consideration for publication
in SHSI’s Annals of Iowa is a condition of full
payment of the grant. SHSI exercises a “right
of first refusal” on manuscripts generated from
these projects, and has published many of them.
This year’s recipients and their projects are:
Jenny Barker-Devine, Iowa State University,
“‘Seeing the Blind Spot’: County
Clubs and Rural Women’s Activism in Iowa, 1950-1965”
Patricia L. Bryan, University of
North Carolina School of Law, “The Case of John
Wesley Elkins, the Iowa Boy Murderer: His Crime and
the 1902 Legislative Debate over His Parole”
Coreen M. Derifield, Purdue University,
“‘A Good Place to Work’: Industrial
Manufacturing and Working-Class Community in Burlington,
Iowa, 1940–1980”
Mark D. Hersey, University of Kansas,
“The Training of a Proto-Ecologist: The Iowa
Roots of George Washington Carver’s Conservation
Ethic”
Frank Tobias Higbie, University
of Illinois, “Democratic Futures: Self-Taught
Workers, Social Science, and American Democracy, 1900–1950”
William C. Lowe, Ashford University,
“The Iowa Monuments Dedication Tour of 1906”
Stacy Pratt McDermott, The Papers
of Abraham Lincoln, “Guarded with ‘Undiminished
Jealousy’: Trial by Jury as a Democratic Institution
in Antebellum Iowa”
Matthew M. Mettler, University of
Iowa, “A Crossroads in Labor Militancy: The
Rise and Fall of the Quad Cities FE-UE, 1949–1955”
The State Historical Society of Iowa is a trustee
of Iowa’s historical legacy and an advocate
for understanding Iowa’s past. It identifies,
records, collects, preserves, manages and provides
access to Iowa’s historical resources. Its dual
mission of preservation and education serves Iowans
of all ages, conducts and stimulates research, disseminates
information, and encourages and supports historical
preservation and education efforts of others throughout
the state. Please visit www.iowahistory.org
or call 515-281-5111 for more information.
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