Sixty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1937.
1937 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Robert Ardrey University of Chicago Playwriting Robert Turney Also won in 1936 Fiction Frederic Prokosch Writing Fine Arts Ahron Ben-Shmuel Sculpture Also won in 1938 Aaron Bohrod Painting Also won in 1936 Jon Corbino Also won in 1936 Lu Duble Bennett School Sculpture Also won in 1938 William Gropper Drawing George Grosz Painting Also won in 1938 Josette Hébert-Coëffin Also won in 1939 Joe Jones Painting: Conditions of the Dust Bowl Rico Lebrun Art Students League Also won in 1935, 1962 Music Composition Ross Lee Finney Smith College Composition Also won in 1947 Also won in 1935, 1936, 1938 Robert Guyn McBride Bennington College Photography Edward Weston Photographic satire in the West Also won in 1938 Poetry Sterling Allen Brown Howard University Long narrative poem Harold Lewis Cook Writing Sonia Raiziss Giop Girls' High School Jesse Hilton Stuart Greenup County High School Theatre Arts Research in Europe Mordecai Gorelik Influence of scientific techniques upon methods of stage design Also won in 1935 Humanities British History Holden Furber Consolidation of British power in India Classics Charles Farwell Edson, Jr. Historical geography and epigraphy of ancient Macedonia Also won in 1936, 1956 Ernst Levy University of Washington (visiting) Development of Roman law in the western part of the empire during its decline English Literature Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford University of Texas Also won in 1929, 1957 Fine Arts Research Lucy Driscoll University of Chicago Chinese art Kaj Klitgaard Through the American Landscape (published 1941) Carl Schuster Also won in 1938 General Nonfiction Zora Neale Hurston Practice of obeah Also won in 1936 Max Norton History of Socialist-Communist, Liberal-Democratic, Nationalist-Patriotic, and reactionary movements during the last 150 years Donald Culross Peattie Robert Owen's New Harmony experiment Also won in 1936 Literary Criticism Richard Palmer Blackmur Henry Adams Also won in 1938 Medieval History John Life La Monte University of Cincinnati Biographical and genealogical catalogue of the Crusader states Medieval Literature Dorothy Bethurum Lawrence College Old and early Middle English homilies Anselm Strittmatter Saint Anselm's Priory History of Christian life and thought Also won in 1932 Near Eastern Studies Samuel Noah Kramer University of Chicago History of Sumerian culture from 2000 BC Also won in 1938, 1961 Philosophy Paul Weiss Bryn Mawr College Foundations of ethics in the light of modern logic and metaphysics Donald Cary Williams University of California Analysis and theory of knowledge United States History Edward Deming Andrews History on the religious arts of the Shakers Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Ronold W. P. King Lafayette College Research in Germany Also won in 1957 Astronomy and Astrophysics Willem Jacob Luyten University of Minnesota Stars in the southern hemisphere Also won in 1928, 1929 Chemistry Lawrence Olin Brockway California Institute of Technology Molecular studies of certain heavy metal carbonyls Earth Science Northwestern University Comparative study of zinc-lead deposits Stanford University Comparative study of metamorphic rock Medicine and Health Allan Lyle Grafflin Harvard University Functional and cytological studies of the mammalian and human kidney Also won in 1934 Samuel Robert Means Reynolds Long Island College of Medicine Nature of the motility-stimulating action of Oestrin upon uterine muscles Molecular and Cellular Biology Eric Glendinning Ball Johns Hopkins University Mechanism of biological oxidations Also won in 1958 William Clouser Boyd Boston University Blood groups among people in southwestern Asia Also won in 1935, 1961 Florence Barbara Seibert Henry Phipps Institute Research with Theodor Svedberg Herbert Shapiro Princeton University Nerve activity at low oxygen pressures James Batcheller Sumner Cornell University Research with Theodor Svedberg Organismic Biology and Ecology Sydney William Britton University of Virginia Comparative study of tropical animals with those native to Virginia George Whitfield Deluz Hamlett United States Biological Survey Embryology and reproductive cycles of various mammals Also won in 1936 William Louis Straus, Jr Johns Hopkins University Embryological development of muscle function Physics Hans Mueller Massachusetts Institute of Technology Structure and properties of liquids Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Melville J. Herskovits Northwestern University Primitive economics Economics Frank Whitson Fetter Theories of money, banking, and international finance in England, 1800-1870 Earl Jefferson Hamilton Duke University 17th-century managed currency experiment of John Law Political Science Ralph Droz Casey University of Minnesota Political party propaganda campaigns Harwood Lawrence Childs Princeton University Historical study of labor and capital in German politics Also won in 1946 Psychology Duke University Formulation of a theory of the changes in the structure of the mind that constitute mental development
1937 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Humanities Iberian and Latin American History Andrés Henestrosa National University of Mexico Significance of Zapotecan culture Also won in 1936 Natural Science Mathematics Carlos Graef Fernández National Autonomous University of Mexico Also won in 1938, 1939 Medicine and Health Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Physiology, especially the action of certain drugs on smooth muscle Also won in 1938, 1957, 1968 Alberto Marsal National University of Córdoba Also won in 1938 Enrique Savino National Department of Hygiene (Argentina) Also won in 1935, 1936 Molecular and Cellular Biology Conrado Federico Asenjo University of Puerto Rico Systematic study of the chemical composition and active principles of the medicinal and poisonous plants of the West Indies Also won in 1938, 1954 Santos Soriano University of Buenos Aires Microbiological studies in artificial production of bacterial variations Physics Alfredo Baños, Jr. National University of Mexico Physical nature of dielectric constant and of the conductivity of dielectrics Also won in 1935, 1936, 1957 Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Carlos García Robiou University of Havana Cuban prehistory Also won in 1938 Law Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado National University of Mexico Comparative study of the systems of forced labor in the Spanish and English colonies of North America Also won in 1939
See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1936 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1938
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