Fifty-seven scholars and artists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1932. [1] [2]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Choreography | Martha Graham | Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre | Native dances from Mexico and Yucatán | Also won in 1943, 1944 | [3] [2] [4] [5] |
Fiction | Louis Adamic | Industrial and sociological research | [6] [2] [7] [8] [4] | |||
Caroline Gordon Tate | Novel writing | [9] [2] [7] [10] | ||||
Evelyn Scott | Novel concerned with the influence of the post-war attitude of 'disillusion' on a romantic woman's temperament | [2] [7] [10] [4] | ||||
Fine Arts | Benjamin Greenstein | Drawing and painting | [11] [4] | |||
Peter Blume | Painting | Also won in 1936 | [2] [11] [7] [4] | |||
Howard Norton Cook | Etching, wood engraving, and lithography | Also won in 1934 | [7] [4] | |||
Andrew Dasburg | Painting and study of contemporary Mexican Fresco painting | [2] [7] [10] | ||||
Mitchell Fields | Sculpture | Also won in 1935 | [7] | |||
Ernest Fiene | Painting | [2] [7] [4] | ||||
John B. Flannagan | Sculpture | [7] [4] | ||||
Peppino Mangravite | Ethical Culture Fieldston School | Painting | Also won in 1936 | [7] [4] | ||
Antonio Salemme | Sculpture | Also won in 1936 | [2] [7] [4] | |||
Music Composition | George Antheil | Composing | Also won in 1933 | [12] [2] [4] | ||
Adolph Weiss | [12] [11] [4] | |||||
Mark Wessel | Also won in 1930 | [12] [13] | ||||
Poetry | H. L. Davis | Historical-dramatic poem, giving an account of the earliest pioneer settlements in the Northwest | [7] | |||
George Dillon | Writing | Also won in 1933 | [7] [10] | |||
Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Lewis Mumford | Completion of a book on form | Also won in 1938, 1956 | [2] [7] [14] [4] | |
Biography | Howard Mumford Jones | University of Michigan | Thomas Moore as representative of "regency" taste in literature | Also won in 1935, 1964 | [15] [13] [10] | |
Classics | Levi Arnold Post (de) | Haverford College | Text tradition of Plato's Laws | [16] [14] | ||
East Asian Studies | Owen Lattimore | Also won in 1930 | [14] | |||
French Literature | Norman Lewis Torrey | Yale University | Biography of Voltaire | Also won in 1954 | [14] | |
German and Scandinavian Literature | Edwin Hermann Zeydel | University of Cincinnati | Ludwig Tieck | [17] [18] | ||
Iberian and Latin American History | Frank Tannenbaum | Comparative studies of agriculture in Peru and Argentina | Also won in 1934 | [19] | ||
Latin American Literature | J. Frank Dobie | University of Texas | Collection of tales told by Mexicans in Northern Mexico and preparation of a book that reflects the character and history both of these people and their country | [15] [10] | ||
Literary Criticism | Fulmer Mood | Harvard University; Radcliffe College | History of American Colonial ideas | Also won in 1934 | [14] | |
Medieval Literature | Anselm Strittmatter | St. Anselm's Priory; Trinity Washington University | History of church worship | Also won in 1937 | [20] [10] | |
Earl Morse Wilbur | Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry | History of the Socinianism-Unitarian movement as a movement toward freedom, reason and tolerance in religion | [7] [14] [21] | |||
Philosophy | F. S. C. Northrop | Yale University | Determination of the nature of mathematical and logical form | [14] | ||
Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Isaac Goldberg | Harvard University | Modern literature of Spanish and Portuguese America | [2] [11] [14] | ||
Arturo Torres-Rioseco | University of California | Spanish-American novel | Also won in 1928 | [21] [18] | ||
Natural Science | Chemistry | Herbert Orion Calvery | University of Michigan Medical School | Embryonic protein metabolism with special reference to the chemistry of ovalbumin and ovovitellin and the time of the appearance of the proteolytic enzymes in the developing chick embryo | [13] [10] | |
Theodore William Richards | Princeton University | Application of the method of statistics and quantum mechanics to surface phenomena | [14] | |||
Oliver Reynolds Wulf | U.S. Department of Agriculture | [22] | ||||
Medicine and Health | Samuel Gelfan | University of Alberta | Nature of the submaximal contractions of the single muscle fiber | [7] | ||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Hermann Joseph Muller | University of Texas | Problems concerning the mechanism of mutation and evolution and the nature of the genre, with particular reference to certain results concerning mutation | [15] [10] | ||
Karl Patterson Schmidt | The Field Museum | Amphibians and reptiles of upper Central America | [23] [24] | |||
Physics | Francis Arthur Jenkins | University of California | Measurement and interpretation of intensities in band spectra | Also won in 1947, 1958 | [21] | |
Robert Sanderson Mulliken | Also won in 1932 | [25] | ||||
Plant Sciences | Ivan Murray Johnston | Arnold Arboretum | Problem of dispersal of plants in the Western Hemisphere and the manner in which plants in the Western United States were transferred to Central America | [14] |
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Humanities | American Literature | Julio Fingerit | Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires | Contemporary literature in the United States | [26] | |
Architecture, Planning and Design | Fernando Devilat Rocca | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Architecture of hospitals and organization of hospital services in the United States | [27] | ||
Ángel Guido | National University of the Littoral | Architecture and city planning in the United States | [28] | |||
Education | Aída Laso Correa | University of Chile | Organization of educational guidance and students' welfare in certain universities in the United States | [29] | ||
Iberian and Latin American History | Herminio Portell Vilá | University of Havana | Cuba–United States relations | Also won in 1931, 1933 | [30] | |
Natural Science | Engineering | Nicanor Alurralde | Argentine State Railway | Problems of railway engineering and management in the United States | [31] | |
Medicine and Health | Donato G. Alarcón Martínez (es) | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Treatment of tuberculosis | [32] | ||
Juan Farill y Solares | Department of Public Health, Mexico | Clinical theory and practice of orthopedics with special reference to the nonsurgical treatment of deformities in children | Also won in 1933 | [33] | ||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Enrique Beltrán | Also won in 1933 | [34] | |||
Tomás Leandro Marini | Department of Agriculture, Argentina | Marine biology, oceanography, and pisciculture in the United States | [35] | |||
Plant Sciences | Manuel Elgueta Guérin | Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura | Theoretical genetics and application of genetics to the improvement of plants | Also won in 1930 | [36] | |
José A. Nolla | Inheritance of disease resistance in tobacco | Also won in 1933 | [37] |