Seventy-five fellowships were awarded to artists, academics, and scholars from more than 20 states. At least 15 previous winners had their fellowships extended. $173,000 was disbursed.

1928 Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Paul Green Theater and drama of Continental Europe for the purpose of gaining technical training Also won in 1929 Lynn Riggs Wrote Green Grow the Lilacs (opened 1930) Fiction Eric Derwent Walrond Writing Also won in 1929 Fine Arts Anthony Angarola Kansas City Art Institute Painting William Auerbach-Levy Educational Alliance Etching and painting Isamu Noguchi University of California Sculpture Also won in 1927 Eliot O'Hara Painting Doris Spiegel Drawing and painting; studying street types in France and Italy Raymond Turner Sculpture Music Composition Robert Russell Bennett Composed Abraham Lincoln and Sights and Sounds Also won in 1929 Roy Harris University of California Composing Also won in 1927 and 1976 Quinto Maganini Working on an epic symphony about the life and era of Napoleon I and on an opera based on Bret Harte's The Bellringer of Angels Also won in 1929 Carl McKinley Composing Also won in 1927 Bernard Rogers Also won in 1927 Poetry Léonie Adams Poetry writing and translation of François Villon's lyrics Also won in 1929 Countee Cullen Narrative poems and the libretto for an opera Allen Tate Writing Also won in 1929 Humanities American Literature Robert Ernest Spiller Swarthmore College Writings of James Fennimore Cooper and other studies in the influence of English and other European cultures on the earliest period of American literature in London Architecture, Planning, & Design Kenneth John Conant Harvard University Drawings of the restorations of the French Romanesque churches, including the Abbey Church in Cluny, the Church of St. Mary in Tours, and the Church of St. Martial at Limoges Also won in 1926, 1929, 1930, and 1954 Myron Bement Smith Yale University Brick and stonework Also won in 1927 British History Donald Grove Barnes University of Oregon at Eugene Henry Pelham, emphasizing Pelham's part in the administration of Walpole and the significance in English history of his own ministry from 1743 to 1754 Classics Rachel Louise Sargent North Central College Social and economic life of Ancient Greece, especially slavery Rodney Potter Robinson University of Cincinnati Completion of Palaeographia Iberica by John Miller Burnham English Literature John William Draper University of Maine Graveyard School of 18th century poetry Also won in 1927 John DeLancey Ferguson Ohio Wesleyan University Preparation of a complete text edition of the Letters of Robert Burns, re-edited from the original manuscripts Thurman Losson Hood Harvard University Compiling and editing for publication a volume of the uncollected letters of Robert Browning Glenn Arthur Hughes University of Washington, Seattle The imagist and related movements in poetry Alan Dugald McKillop Rice Institute Samuel Richardson Thomas Middleton Raysor State College of Washington Preparation of a corrected edition of S. T. Coleridge's lectures and marginalia on Shakespeare and other literary remains Also won in 1926 Helen Constance White University of Wisconsin, Madison Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th-century England Also won in 1930 Louis Booker Wright University of North Carolina Reflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642 Also won in 1929 French History E. Malcolm Carroll Duke University Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic Also won in 1927 Louis R. Gottschalk University of Louisville Career and influence of General Lafayette, specifically on the several revolutionary movements with which he was connected Also won in 1954 French Literature Edith Philips Goucher College Quaker and Quaker ideas in French Literature with particular reference to the eighteenth century General Nonfiction Felix M. Morley The Baltimore Sun Operation of the League of Nations Also won in 1929 Nathaniel Peffer Old and established Eastern civilizations of the impact of industrialism and nationalism, the two principal products of the West brought to the East Also won in 1927 Medieval Literature Cornell University History of medieval theories of rhetoric Also won in 1956 Roland Mitchell Smith Wesleyan University Historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland Also won in 1929 Medieval History Carl Stephenson University of Wisconsin Preparing for publication of a volume of studies in municipal history Music Research Nicholas G.J. Ballanta Musical conception of the African peoples and a comparison of that conception with the older systems of music in Europe Also won in 1927 Philosophy Sidney Hook New York University Also won in 1929 and 1953 Religion Robert Pierce Casey University of Cincinnati Preparation of critical editions of the texts of St. Athanasius and of Titus of Bostra Also won in 1929 Renaissance History Albert Hyma University of Michigan The youth of Erasmus South Asian Studies W. Norman Brown University of Pennsylvania Legends and history centering around the Jainist saga Kalaka as preserved in Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, the texts themselves, and the art of the paintings illustrating certain manuscripts of these texts Spanish and Portuguese Literature University of California Life in Madrid during the 18th century Antonio García Solalinde University of Wisconsin United States History Theodore C. Blegen University of Minnesota Norwegian immigration to the United States Curtis Putnam Nettels University of Wisconsin Natural Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Willem Jacob Luyten Harvard University Comparing photographs of the southern sky using the Bruce telescope to those with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1905 Also won in 1929 and 1937 Otto Struve University of Chicago Chemistry George Hopkins Coleman University of Iowa Earl C. Gilbert Earth Science Perry Byerly University of California American earthquakes Also won in 1952 Engineering Lester E. Reukema Electric discharge in gases at high frequencies and the breakdown of solid insulating materials under high electric stress Mathematics Olive C. Hazlett Also won in 1929 Medicine and Health William Vernon Cone Columbia University Reactions of the intestinal cells of the central nervous system and related subjects Robert Richard Dieterle University of Michigan John Charnley McKinley University of Minnesota Human muscle tonus and the relation of tonus measurements to electromyography Warren Kidwell Stratman-Thomas University of Wisconsin Therapeutic value of six new arsenical compounds in the chemo-therapy of sleeping sickness in animals and men Also won in 1929 Organismic Biology and Ecology Ralph Erskine Cleland Goucher College Chromosome constitution and behavior in the evening primroses in relation to certain genetical problems Also won in 1927 Emmett Reid Dunn Smith College Central American reptiles and amphibians, and salamanders of the Ambystomatidae family Dwight Elmer Minnich University of Minnesota and American Society of Zoologists Chemical senses of insects Homer William Smith University of Virginia Certain rare species of lung fishes which live in the waters of the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea Also won in 1930 Physics John Joseph Hopfield University of California Spectra of oxygen and nitrogen California Institute of Technology Establishment of a consistent theory of radiation Also won in 1929 Noel Charlton Little Bowdoin College Thermomagnetic properties of gaseous molecules by a new method of convective flow with the view of studying their structure and spatial quantization Francis Wheeler Loomis William Weldon Watson University of Chicago Structure of molecules and the nature of chemical reactions in gases Plant Science Richard Bradfield Also won in 1927 Rodney Beecher Harvey University of Minnesota Winter hardiness of plans of northern Russia Also won in 1927 Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Edwin Meyer Loeb University of California Primitive peoples of Sumatra and adjacent western islands Robert H. Pfeiffer Economics Lionel Danforth Edie University of Chicago Also won in 1929 Alvin Harvey Hansen University of Minnesota Economic readjustment in Germany, 1920-1927 Political Science Leonard Dupee White Also won in 1927

See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1929

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