Eighty-five Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1930, amounting to $200,000. [1] [2] [3] The Latin-American Exchange Fellowships were introduced this year and brought two fellows to the United States to study. [4] [1]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Ellsworth Prouty Conkle | University of Delaware | Writing | [3] [5] | |
Fiction | Walter Stanley Campbell | University of Oklahoma | Biography of Sitting Bull | Also won in 1931 | [3] [5] [6] | |
Jonathan Worth Daniels | Writing | [3] [5] [7] [6] | ||||
Helen Rose Hull | Columbia University | [5] | ||||
Nella Larsen Imes | [8] | |||||
Jacques G. Le Clercq | Columbia University | [9] | ||||
Thomas Clayton Wolfe | Washington Square College | [7] [6] | ||||
Fine Arts | Pamela Bianco | Painting | [10] [11] | |||
Harold Cash | Sculpture | Also won in 1931 | [6] [12] | |||
Mordi Gassner | Mural painting | Also won in 1929 | [13] [14] | |||
Thomas Handforth | Etching | [15] | ||||
Arthur Lee | Art Students League of New York | Classic European sculpture | [12] [16] | |||
Monty Lewis | Painting | [12] | ||||
Sidney Loeb | Sculpture | Also won in 1929 | [17] | |||
E. Bruce Moore | University of Wichita | Sculpture | Also won in 1929 | [5] | ||
Archibald John Motley, Jr. | Painting | Also won in 1929 | [18] [19] | |||
Francis R. White | Gothic glassmaking | [5] [12] | ||||
Music Composition | Carl Bricken | Composing | [20] [21] | |||
Ruth Porter Crawford | [20] [1] | |||||
Robert M. Delaney | Also won in 1929 | [5] [22] | ||||
Otto Luening | Also won in 1931, 1974 | [5] [20] [1] | ||||
Quincy Porter | Also won in 1929 | [4] | ||||
Randall Thompson | Wellesley College | Also won in 1929 | [4] [20] [21] | |||
Mark Wessel | Also won in 1932 | [5] [20] [1] | ||||
Poetry | Edward Davison | Preparation for an epic poem | [23] | |||
H. Phelps Putnam | Writing | [4] | ||||
Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Kenneth John Conant | Harvard University | Restoration drawings of Cluny Abbey, the Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours, and the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, all Romanesque French churches | Also won in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1954 | [24] [25] |
Bibliography | Mary McRae McLucas | John Day Company | Methods past and present of producing printing in the outstanding presses of Central Europe and Great Britain; study of hand-printing and photographic composition; bibliography of books about books | [26] [6] [27] | ||
British History | Viola Florence Barnes | Mt. Holyoke College | England's colonial policy, particularly in relation to Massachusetts | [3] [5] [4] [28] | ||
Charles Harris Wesley | Howard University | Negro slavery apprenticeship in the British West Indies between 1807 and 1838 | [5] [6] | |||
Classics | Ben Edwin Perry | University of Illinois | Life of Aesop | Also won in 1954 | [5] [29] | |
East Asian Studies | Owen Lattimore | Present conditions in Manchuria and Chinese Turkistan and their historical and geographical background | Also won in 1932 | [4] [30] | ||
Economics History | Paul Schuster Taylor | University of California | Socio-economic aspects of the emigration of Mexicans to the United States | [5] [4] | ||
English Literature | Ford Keeler Brown | St. John's College, Annapolis | Social aspects and influence of the English Evangelicals, 1798-1830 | Also won in 1927, 1930 | [31] [5] | |
Neilson Campbell Hannay | Boston University | Biography of William Cowper and known letters | [4] [32] | |||
John Leslie Hotson | New York University | Systematic searches for new material for writing the lives of Elizabethan poets and dramatists | Also won in 1929 | [33] [34] | ||
Henry Donaldson Jordan | Dartmouth College | English newspaper press, 1853-1865 | [4] [35] | |||
Eleanore Boswell | University of London | History of Restoration theatre | [36] | |||
Helen Constance White | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th-century England | Also won in 1929 | [37] [5] [1] | ||
Fine Arts Research | Anita Brenner | Pre-Spanish America art in the southern countries of the North American continent, with special attention to Aztec art | Also won in 1931 | [12] [4] | ||
Thomas Temple Hoopes | New York University | History of firearms from their invention to the introduction of automatic manufacturing machinery | [38] | |||
Clarence Kennedy | Smith College | Study of Desiderio da Settignano | [12] [4] | |||
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy | Monograph on Alesso Baldovinetti | [12] [4] | ||||
French Literature | Henri Maurice Peyre | Yale University | Louis Ménard | [4] | ||
German and Eastern European History | Brynjolf Jakob Hovde | University of Pittsburgh | Social and economic conditions in Scandinavia, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries | [5] [39] | ||
Iberian and Latin American History | John Tate Lanning | Duke University | Universities of the Hispanic colonies of the New World | [7] [4] [6] | ||
Literary Criticism | Mary M. Colum | Contemporary American and French ideas of criticism | Also won in 1938 | [4] | ||
Joseph Wood Krutch | The Nation | Aesthetics | [3] [5] [6] | |||
Medieval Literature | Blanche Beatrice Boyer | Mt. Holyoke College | Latin manuscripts written in minuscule of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon script | Also won in 1929 | [4] | |
Sister Mary Aquinas Devlin | Rosary College | Thomas Brunton's life, sermons, and influence | [5] [1] | |||
Richard Ager Newhall | Williams College | Military and financial phases of the latter part of the Hundred Years' War | [4] [40] | |||
Josiah Cox Russell | New Mexico Normal University | Biographical data of the manuscripts of certain Latin authors and 13th-century England | [5] [41] | |||
John Webster Spargo | Northwestern University | Medieval legends about Virgil | Also won in 1936 | [5] [1] | ||
Medieval History | Eugene Hugh Byrne | University of Wisconsin | Commercial custom and practice in the Middle Ages | [5] [1] | ||
Music Research | Roy Dickinson Welch | Smith College | Relation of musical art to general culture and social history | Also won in 1931 | [4] [5] [42] | |
Philosophy | A. Cornelius Benjamin | University of Illinois | Logic and scientific methodology in England and France; preparation for a systematic treatise on The Logic of Science | [5] [1] [43] | ||
John Daniel Wild | Harvard University | Philosophical works of George Berkeley | Also won in 1956 | [4] [44] | ||
Religion | Silva Tipple New | Textual criticism of the New Testament and the discrimination of the textual families in Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts of the New Testament | Also won in 1929 | [45] [4] | ||
Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Hyman Chonon Berkowitz | University of Wisconsin | Benito Pérez Galdós and his contribution to Spanish life and letters | [5] [1] [46] | ||
Frederick Courtney Tarr (de) | Princeton University | Origin and development of the Articulos de costumbre | Also won in 1929 | [47] [21] | ||
United States History | Reginald C. McGrane | University of Cincinnati | British investment in the United States, 1830-1860 | Also won in 1931 | [48] [49] | |
Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr. | University of Illinois | Problems in the field of molecular rays | Also won in 1931 | [5] [1] [50] |
Evald Laurids Skau | Trinity College | Purification of organic compounds | [4] | |||
Earth Science | Ernest Raymond Lilley | New York University | Political and commercial policies regarding the development of mineral resources in the light of present knowledge of the character and extent of such resources | [51] [21] | ||
Mathematics | Harry Shultz Vandiver | University of Texas, Austin | Theory of algebraic numbers | Also won in 1930 | [52] [6] | |
Medicine and Health | Edward Lee Howes | Yale University | Problems of wound healing | Also won in 1931 | [4] | |
Eric Oldberg | Peter Bent Brigham Hospital | [4] [53] | ||||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Theodore L. Althausen | University of California Medical School | Certain physiological disturbances and functional regeneration of the liver under various conditions of experimental and spontaneous injury | [5] [54] | ||
Simon Freed | University of California | Magnetic and spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules in the crystalline state | [5] [55] | |||
Arthur Grollman | Johns Hopkins University | Physical chemistry | [5] | |||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Eugene M. Landis | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania | Reactions affecting the minute blood vessels of mammals | Also won in 1929 | [56] | |
Clarence Eugene Mickel | University of Minnesota | Life and habits of parasitical wasps | [1] | |||
Homer William Smith | University of Virginia | Physiological study of certain rare species of lung fishes which live in the waters of the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea | Also won in 1930 | [57] [58] | ||
Plant Science | Carroll William Dodge | Harvard University | Completion of lichen flora in Costa Rica | Also won in 1929 | [4] [59] | |
Thomas H. Goodspeed | University of California | Monographic treatment of the genus Nicotiana | Also won in 1935, 1956 | [5] [60] | ||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ruth L. Bunzel | Barnard College | Indian backgrounds of the Mexican nation | Also won in 1931 | [12] [4] |
Economics | Paul Howard Douglas | University of Chicago | Movement of real wages in Europe, 1900-1930 | [5] [1] [61] | ||
Mordecai Ezekiel | Bureau of Agricultural Economics | Methods used by governmental agencies in leading European countries in regulating, directing and controlling economic activities | [5] | |||
Frank Hyneman Knight | University of Chicago | Movements in economic and social thought in relation to the British classical economics and the current development of institutional and statistical economics in America | [5] [1] [62] | |||
Katharine Snodgrass | Stanford University | Economics of food substitution, specifically the displacement of dairy fats by vegetable fats in Northern Europe | [5] [63] | |||
Psychology | John Paul Nafe | Clark University | Validity of the "quantitative" theory of sensory feelings | [4] [64] | ||
Carroll C. Pratt | Harvard University | Expressive properties of musical structure by means of methods being developed by the Gestalt psychologists | [4] [65] | |||
Political Science | Nicholas John Spykman | Yale University | Asiatic nationalism viewed as a political expression of the cultural transformation due to the penetration of Euro-American culture into areas of different cultures | [4] [66] |
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Mathematics | Alfonso Nápoles Gándara (ca) | Escuela Nacional Preparatoria | Differential geometry and harmonic analysis | [4] [1] [67] | ||
Medicine and Health | Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns | National University of Mexico | Physiology and biochemistry | [4] [1] |