List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1936

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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]

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1936 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance Art Leopold Atlas  [ de ]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 PaintingAlso 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 regionAlso won in 1931 [15] [9] [4] [11] [12]
Antonio Salemme SculptureAlso won in 1932 [16] [11]
Harry Sternberg Dangers of the working and living environments of coal and steel workers [17] [11]
Carl Walters SculptureAlso won in 1935 [11] [7]
Music Composition Dante Fiorillo  [ de ]CompositionAlso 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]
HumanitiesAmerican Literature Joseph Leon Edel Havas News Agency Volume of unpublished playsAlso won in 1938, 1965 [6]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 historyAlso 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 RenaissanceAlso 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 ScienceChemistry 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 manAlso won in 1946 [36]
Michael Heidelberger Columbia University Also won in 1934 [37]
Morris Moore Barnard Free Skin and Cancer HospitalDisease-producing fungi of North and South AmericaAlso 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-sensitizationAlso won in 1945, 1953 [28] [7]
George Whitfield Deluz Hamlett United States Biological SurveyEmbryology and the reproductive cycles of various South American mammalsAlso won in 1937 [40]
Social SciencesEconomics Abram Lincoln Harris Institutional economicsAlso 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 StatesAlso won in 1957, 1959 [31] [7]
Psychology Donald McLean Purdy University of Maine European functional psychology [42] [7]
Sociology Clifford Kirkpatrick  [ fr ] University of Minnesota Psychological adjustment of German and Austrian women [31] [7]

1936 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
HumanitiesIberian and Latin American History Andrés Henestrosa National University of Mexico Significance of Zapotecan cultureAlso won in 1937 [43]
Natural ScienceEarth 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 ArriaránInfectious 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 dielectricsAlso won in 1935, 1937, 1957 [47]

See also

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