Sixty-three John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1927 to representatives of 22 states. [1] [2] [3] [4] $143,000 was disbursed. [5]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Fiction | Walter White | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Lynching in the United States | [6] [7] [8] | |
Fine Arts | John Wesley Carroll | Art Students League of New York | Painting | [9] [8] | ||
Samuel Vance Chamberlain | University of Michigan | Etching and drypoint | [8] [5] | |||
Avard Fairbanks | University of Oregon | Sculpture | [10] [8] [5] | |||
Glen Amos Mitchell | Painting | Also won in 1926 | [11] | |||
Isamu Noguchi | Sculpture | Also won in 1928 | [12] [8] | |||
Dorothy Ochtman | Painting | [13] [8] | ||||
Fine Arts Research | Ernest Theodore DeWald | Princeton University | Publication of manuscripts of Stuttgart Psalter and a catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts at the library in Einsiedeln, Switzerland | Also won in 1931 | [14] [8] [5] | |
General Nonfiction | Nathaniel Peffer | New School for Social Research | Effects of industrialism and nationalist on the Far East | Also won in 1928 | [15] [16] [8] | |
Music Composition | Roy Harris | Composition | Also won in 1928, 1976 | [17] [8] [18] [5] | ||
Carl McKinley | Capital Theatre | Also won in 1928 | [17] [8] | |||
Bernard Rogers | Also won in 1928 | [17] | ||||
Roger Sessions | Also won in 1926 | [17] [19] | ||||
Theodore J. Stearns | [17] | |||||
Poetry | Stephen Vincent Benét | Long narrative poem about the American Civil War | Also won in 1926 | [20] [21] | ||
Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Myron Bement Smith | Italian brickwork of the Lombard period | Also won in 1928 | [22] [23] [8] | |
British History | Frederick Charles Dietz | University of Illinois, Urbana | English government finance from 1558 to 1640 | [14] [8] [5] | ||
Judith Blow Williams | Wellesley College | Efforts, both of individuals and through concerted private and governmental action, to open markets for the products of the Industrial Revolution in England | Also won in 1929 | [14] [8] | ||
Classics | Marion Elizabeth Blake | Converse College | Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy | Also won in 1929, 1953 | [14] [8] [5] | |
William Jerome Wilson | State Normal School at Cheney | The Shepherd of Hermas | [24] [8] [5] | |||
English Literature | Ford Keeler Brown | St. John's College, Annapolis | Hannah More | Also won in 1929, 1930 | [14] [8] [5] | |
John William Draper | University of Maine | Bibliography of 18th century works on aesthetics and for origins of the "Graveyard School" of 18th century poetry in Great Britain | Also won in 1928 | [14] [8] | ||
John Andrew Rice, Jr. | University of Nebraska | Authorship of A Tale of a Tub | [25] [26] [8] [5] | |||
Arthur Wellesley Secord | University of Illinois | Daniel Defoe | [27] [8] [5] | |||
Harold William Thompson | New York State College for Teachers | Biography | Also won in 1925 | [28] | ||
French History | E. Malcolm Carroll | Duke University | Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic | Also won in 1928 | [14] [8] [5] | |
Raphael Demos | Harvard University | Philosophy of evolution and social philosophy in France | [1] [8] | |||
French Literature | Fred G. Hoffherr | Columbia University | Preparation for the publication of the manuscript Victor Hugo's Journal d'Exil | [29] [8] | ||
German and East European History | Frank Dunstone Graham | Princeton University | Commercial and industrial consequences of the rapid depreciation of the German and Polish monetary units of the post-war period | [30] [8] [5] | ||
German and Scandinavian Literature | Archer Taylor | University of Chicago | Methods used in folklore study for tracing the history of the popular ballad | Also won in 1960 | [31] [8] [5] | |
Iberian and Latin American History | J. Fred Rippy | Duke University | Latin America in world affairs | [8] [5] | ||
Intellectual and Cultural History | Bernadotte Everly Schmitt | University of Chicago | Origins and responsibility for the World War | [31] [8] [5] | ||
Literary Criticism | Odell Shepard | Trinity College | Preparation of a book Romantic Solitude and for research in the history of the romantic movement | [32] [8] | ||
Music Research | Nicholas G.J. Ballanta | Musical conceptions of African peoples and comparison to older musical systems of Europe | Also won in 1928 | [33] [34] [8] | ||
Near Eastern Studies | Ephraim Avigdor Speiser | University of Pennsylvania | Also won in 1926 | [35] [5] | ||
South Asian Studies | Helen Moore Johnson | Translation and commentary of Hemacandra's Loves of Sixty-three Famous Men | [14] [36] [8] [5] | |||
United States History | Frank Lawrence Owsley | Vanderbilt University | Certain phases of the relations of Europe and the Confederacy | [37] [8] [5] | ||
Richard Joseph Purcell | Catholic University of America | Irish immigration to the United States from 1790 to the time of the American Civil War | [38] [8] [5] | |||
George Malcolm Stephenson | University of Minnesota | History of Swedish immigration to the United States | [39] [40] [41] [8] [5] | |||
Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Wallace R. Brode | Bureau of Standards | Absorption spectra of aniline dyes | Also won in 1926 | [42] [43] [5] [44] |
George Ernest Gibson | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of band spectra | [45] [8] [18] | |||
Linus Pauling | California Institute of Technology | Also won in 1926, 1965 | [46] [47] [18] [5] | |||
Lloyd Hilton Reyerson | University of Minnesota | Contact catalysis | Also won in 1957 | [2] [41] [8] [5] | ||
Mathematics | Philip Franklin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Integral equations, orthogonal functions, and their relation to almost periodic functions | [14] [8] | ||
Harry Shultz Vandiver | University of Texas, Austin | Fermat's Last Theorem and the laws of reciprocity in the theory of algebraic numbers | Also won in 1930 | [48] [8] [5] | ||
Medicine and Health | William Ruthrauff Amberson | University of Pennsylvania | Mechanisms involved in the electrical stimulation of nerve and music | [14] [49] [8] | ||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward Frederick Adolph | University of Rochester | Internal factors that control the size of organisms, particularly during growth | [50] [8] | ||
Organismic Biology & Ecology | Ralph Erskine Cleland | Goucher College | Chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose, as related to certain genetical problems | Also won in 1928 | [14] [51] [8] [5] | |
Lewis Victor Heilbrunn | University of Michigan | Colloid chemistry of protoplasm | [52] [8] [5] | |||
Edwin Blake Payson | University of Wyoming | Taxonomy in relation to generic phylogenies | [53] [5] | |||
Physics | Carl Eckart | California Institute of Technology | New quantum theory | [54] [8] [18] [5] | ||
William Vermillion Houston | California Institute of Technology | Recent developments in quantum mechanics as applied to the explanation of spectra | [14] [8] [18] [5] | |||
Frank C. Hoyt | University of Chicago | Quantum theory and its meaning for radiation and atomic structure | [31] [8] [5] | |||
Victor F. Lenzen | University of California, Berkeley | Statistical mechanics | [14] [8] | |||
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Connection between Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity | [8] | |||
Jay Walter Woodrow | Iowa State College | Phosphorescent, chemiluminescencent and photoelectric properties of cod liver oil and other substances which either have anti-rachitic characteristics or can be activated by treatment with ultra-violet light | [2] [8] [5] | |||
Plant Sciences | Richard Bradfield | University of Missouri | Principles involved in the purification of colloids by electrodialysis | Also won in 1928 | [55] [8] [5] | |
William Henry Eyster | University of Maine | Physiology of the chloroplastid pigments | [2] [8] | |||
Rodney Beecher Harvey | University of Minnesota | Low temperature effects on plants | Also won in 1928 | [41] [8] [5] | ||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | James Penrose Harland | University of Cincinnati | Civilizations of the Bronze Age in and around Greece | Also won in 1927 | [56] [57] [5] [58] |
Economics | Mollie Ray Carroll | Goucher College | Present-day system of unemployment insurance in Germany | [59] [8] [5] | ||
Political Science | Roger Hewes Wells (de) | Bryn Mawr College | Preparation of the book Municipal Government in the German Commonwealth | [60] [8] [5] | ||
Leonard Dupee White | University of Chicago | Trade unions and professional organizations in the public service of Great Britain | Also won in 1928 | [14] [31] [8] [5] |