Sixty Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1936, bringing the total number of recipients to 525. [1] [2] [3] The Guggenheim family donated an additional $1,000,000 to the Foundation, increasing the scholarship pool to $6,000,000. [2]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Leopold Atlas | Playwriting | [4] [5] [6] | ||
| Albert Bein | [4] [5] [6] | |||||
| Robert Turney | Also won in 1937 | [5] [6] | ||||
| Fiction | James Thomas Farrell | University of Chicago | Writing | [7] [8] [6] | ||
| Josephine Herbst | [9] [10] [6] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Peter Blume | Painting | Also won in 1932 | [4] [11] [12] [7] | ||
| Aaron Bohrod | Also won in 1937 | [9] [11] [7] | ||||
| Jon Corbino | Also won in 1937 | [11] [13] | ||||
| Peppino Mangravite | Sarah Lawrence College | Also won in 1932 | [11] [14] | |||
| Doris Rosenthal | New York Public Schools | Graphic images from cultures around the world arranged by subject rather than region | Also won in 1931 | [15] [9] [4] [11] [12] | ||
| Antonio Salemme | Sculpture | Also won in 1932 | [16] [11] | |||
| Harry Sternberg | Dangers of the working and living environments of coal and steel workers | [17] [11] | ||||
| Carl Walters | Sculpture | Also won in 1935 | [11] [7] | |||
| Music Composition | Dante Fiorillo | Composition | Also won in 1935, 1937, 1938 | [18] | ||
| Poetry | Edward Doro | Writing | [4] [7] | |||
| Kenneth Flexner Fearing | [5] [19] | |||||
| Jacob Hauser | [3] [4] | |||||
| Kenneth Patchen | [5] [20] | |||||
| Isidor Schneider | Also won in 1934 | [4] [5] | ||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Joseph Leon Edel | Havas News Agency | Volume of unpublished plays | Also won in 1938, 1965 | [6] |
| Morris Roberts | Reevaluation of Henry James' novels and a study of their literary relations | [21] | ||||
| Architecture, Planning, and Design | Catherine Krouse Bauer | American Federation of Labor | Western European and Soviet housing | [9] [22] [7] | ||
| Bibliography | Donald Goddard Wing | Yale University | Short-title list, with locations of all books published in Great Britain or in English from 1641 to 1700 | [12] [7] | ||
| Biography | John Edwin Bakeless | Sarah Lawrence College | Christopher Marlowe | Also won in 1945 | [23] [14] | |
| British History | Garrett Mattingly | Long Island University | Catherine of Aragon with special reference to her influence on English foreign policy, on the development of English humanism, and on the course of the English Reformation under Henry VIII | Also won in 1945, 1953, 1960 | [3] | |
| Classics | Thomas A. Brady | University of Missouri, Columbia | Egyptian religions | [24] [7] | ||
| Charles Farwell Edson, Jr. | History of ancient Macedonia | Also won in 1937, 1956 | [25] | |||
| Economic History | Leland Hamilton Jenks | Wellesley College | Migration of the British capital, 1875-1914 | [26] [7] | ||
| English Literature | Donald Alfred Stauffer | Princeton University | History of English biography and autobiography of the 18th century | [27] [7] | ||
| French Literature | Jean Paul Misrahi | Columbia University | Critical edition of Chretien de Troyes' Erec and Enide | [3] | ||
| Pierre Robert Vigneron | University of Chicago | Physiological and critical study of the life of Marie Henri Beyle | [8] [9] [7] | |||
| French History | Leo Gershoy | Long Island University | Reinterpretation of the theories and policies of 18th-century enlightened despotism as a stage in European history | Also won in 1939, 1946, 1959 | [3] [4] | |
| Donald Malcolm Greer | Biography of Paul Barras | [26] [7] | ||||
| Saul K. Padover | University of California | Life of Louis XVI of France as a symbol of declining civilization | [4] [28] [7] | |||
| General Nonfiction | Zora Neale Hurston | Practice of obeah | Also won in 1937 | [9] [29] | ||
| Donald Culross Peattie | Robert Owen's New Harmony experiment | Also won in 1937 | [9] [7] | |||
| Glanville Wynkoop Smith | History of the West Indies | [30] [31] | ||||
| Literary Criticism | Granville Hicks | Interpretation of English literature since 1890 with reference to the influence of social change upon literature | [5] [32] | |||
| Medieval Literature | John Webster Spargo | Northwestern University | English law and literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | Also won in 1930 | [9] [7] | |
| Music Research | Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick | 17th- and 18th-century chamber music | [33] [7] [5] | |||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Irving A. Leonard | University of California | Cultural and intellectual history of Colonial Spanish America | [34] [28] [7] | ||
| United States History | Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller | Harvard University | Intellectual history of New England to the middle of the 18th century | [26] [7] | ||
| Ernest Staples Osgood | University of Minnesota | History of Montana | [35] [31] [7] | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Willard Wheland | California Institute of Technology | Organic molecules | [25] [7] | |
| Mathematics | Solomon Gandz | [4] | ||||
| Marshall Harvey Stone | Harvard University | Theory of linear representation in abstract spaces | [26] [7] | |||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | James Thomas Culbertson | Columbia University | Humoral and cellular immunological phenomena in the mechanism underlying the immunity against parasitic diseases, particularly the protozoan and helminthic infestations of man | Also won in 1946 | [36] | |
| Michael Heidelberger | Columbia University | Also won in 1934 | [37] | |||
| Morris Moore | Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital | Disease-producing fungi of North and South America | Also won in 1935 | [24] [7] | ||
| Lloyd Raymond Watson | Alfred University | Honey bees | [38] [5] [6] [12] [7] | |||
| Perry William Wilson | University of Wisconsin | Bacterial fixation of nitrogen (with Marjory Stephenson) | [39] [7] | |||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Harold Francis Blum | University of California | Biological photo-sensitization | Also won in 1945, 1953 | [28] [7] | |
| George Whitfield Deluz Hamlett | United States Biological Survey | Embryology and the reproductive cycles of various South American mammals | Also won in 1937 | [40] | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Abram Lincoln Harris | Institutional economics | Also won in 1935, 1943, 1953 | [41] | |
| Law | Alexander Nahum Sack | New York University | Business taxation | [4] [5] | ||
| Political Science | Lennox Algernon Mills | University of Minnesota | Postwar politics and other conditions in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and Malay States | Also won in 1957, 1959 | [31] [7] | |
| Psychology | Donald McLean Purdy | University of Maine | European functional psychology | [42] [7] | ||
| Sociology | Clifford Kirkpatrick | University of Minnesota | Psychological adjustment of German and Austrian women | [31] [7] |
| 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 1937 | [43] |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Pedro J. Bermúdez Hernández | Also won in 1935 | [44] [45] | ||
| Medicine and Health | Enrique Savino | Also won in 1935, 1937 | [44] | |||
| Adalberto Steeger Schaeffer | Hospital Manuel Arriarán | Infectious diseases especially as related to pediatrics | [46] | |||
| Physics | Alfredo Baños, Jr. | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Physical nature of dielectric constant and the conductivity of dielectrics | Also won in 1935, 1937, 1957 | [47] |