Thirty-seven scholars, scientists, and artists across 18 states were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1926. $100,000 was disbursed among them.
1928 fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fine Arts Glen Amos Mitchell Painting: religious and historical in character abroad Also won in 1927 Elizabeth Olds Painting: portraiture Frank H. Schwarz Painting: mural decoration in Europe Musical Composition Leopold Mannes Composing Roger Sessions Cleveland Institute of Music Also won in 1927 Poetry Stephen Vincent Benét Poetry and prose Also won in 1927 Humanities Architecture, Planning and Design Kenneth John Conant Harvard University Authoritative set of drawings, being restorations of three Romanesque French churches Also won in 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1954 Biography John Donald Wade University of Georgia Early history of Georgia and Alabama British History Paul Knaplund University of Wisconsin Monograph preparation on William Ewart Gladstone as a colonial statesman English Literature Thomas Middleton Raysor State College of Washington New edition of Coleridge's literary criticism Also won in 1928 Hyder Edward Rollins New York University Studying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection Robert Schafer University of Cincinnati New edition of the works of Fulke Greville German and Scandinavian Literature Walter Silz Harvard University Literature of Heinrich Von Kleist Also won in 1960 Medieval History Warren Ault Boston University English local government David S. Blondheim Johns Hopkins University Use of romance languages by the Jews Near Eastern Studies Ephraim Avigdor Speiser University of Pennsylvania Mitanni group of peoples in Northern Mesopotamia Also won in 1927 Philosophy Ralph Monroe Eaton Harvard University Theory of knowledge in its relation to logic and metaphysics Marjorie Hope Nicolson Goucher College English 17th-century thought Theatre Arts Hallie Flanagan Vassar College Developments of the theater in Europe Natural Sciences Chemistry Wallace R. Brode Bureau of Standards Azo dyes Also won in 1927 Linus Pauling California Institute of Technology Theoretical and experimental research into the atom Also won in 1927 and 1965 Mathematics Ernest Preston Lane University of Chicago Comparative study of geometry Ellis Bagley Stouffer University of Kansas Comparative study of differential geometry Norbert Wiener Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bohr's almost periodic functions Medicine and Health Julian Herman Lewis University of Chicago Fundamental nature of immunity phenomena Harold Myers Marvin Yale Medical School Cardiovascular physiology Organismic Biology and Ecology Royal Norton Chapman University of Minnesota Destructive pests Alfred E. Emerson University of Pittsburgh Origin of the caste of termites Franklin Pearce Reagan University of California and Indiana University Earliest blood vessels of mammalian embryos Physics Arthur Compton University of Chicago Nature of radiation Edwin C. Kemble Harvard University New quantum theory Ralph A. Sawyer University of Michigan Spectral series relations in extreme ultraviolet metallic spectra Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies James Penrose Harland Harvard University Ancient civilizations in Greece, Crete and Cyclades Also won in 1927 Gladys Reichard Columbia University Art style of Melanesia Economics Alzada Comstock Mount Holyoke College League of Nations financial reconstruction work Geography and Environmental Studies Glenn Thomas Trewartha University of Wisconsin Geographic investigations of Japan and China Also won in 1943 Political Science Herbert Feis University of Cincinnati French-brand German pre-war foreign investments Religion Roland Bainton Yale Divinity School Preparation of a book on religious tolerance
1926 renewals
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Musical Composition Aaron Copland Composing Also won in 1925 Humanities British History Violet Barbour Vassar College Sir George Downing Also won in 1925 Classics Allen Brown West Princeton University Athenian empire Also won in 1925 General Nonfiction Isaac Fisher Danger trends in world race relations Also won in 1925 Religion Kenneth James Saunders Pacific School of Religion Oriental religions Also won in 1925
See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1925 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927
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