Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1939. [1] [2]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Harold Augustus Sinclair | Writing | [3] | ||
| Robert Penn Warren | Louisiana State University | Also won in 1947 | [4] | |||
| Richard Wright | Federal Writers' Project | [5] | ||||
| Fine Arts | Janet de Coux | Sculpture | Also won in 1938 | [6] | ||
| Adolf Dehn | Painting | Also won in 1951 | [7] [8] | |||
| David Fredenthal | Cranbrook Academy of Art | Also won in 1938 | [9] [8] | |||
| Josette Hébert-Coëffin | Also won in 1937 | [ citation needed ] | ||||
| John McCrady | Federal Art Project | Painting: Faith and lives of African Americans in the South | [10] [8] | |||
| Eugene Trentham | Painting | [11] | ||||
| Harry Wickey | Sculpture: Depictions of New York people | Also won in 1940 | [12] [13] | |||
| Music Composition | Ernst Bacon | Converse College | Composition | Also won in 1942, 1964 | [14] | |
| Paul Creston | St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church | Also won in 1938 | [15] | |||
| Anis Fuleihan | G. Shirmer, Inc. | [14] | ||||
| William Howard Schuman | Sarah Lawrence College | Also won 1940 | [14] [13] | |||
| Poetry | Asher Brynes | Writing | Also won in 1938, 1944 | [16] [13] [8] | ||
| Kenneth Fearing | Also won in 1936 | [13] [8] | ||||
| Theatre Arts | William Smith Clark II | University of Cincinnati | History of the stage in Ireland | [17] [8] | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Charles John Olson | Harvard University | Critical history of the growth of Herman Melville through a study of his writing and reading | Also won in 1948 | [2] [8] |
| Biography | Arthur McCandless Wilson | Dartmouth University | Also won in 1956 | [18] [8] | ||
| Classics | Michael Ginsburg | University of Nebraska | Ancient Rome's New Deal | Also won in 1942 | [19] [8] | |
| Richard Mansfield Haywood | Johns Hopkins University | Cities of Roman Africa, their political and economic organization, and their relations with the surrounding country and with each other | [20] [8] | |||
| Fine Arts Research | Marvin Chauncey Ross | Walters Art Gallery | Corpus of all known Byzantine enamels, including a catalogue and an introduction giving the history and classification of Byzantine enamels | Also won in 1938, 1948, 1952 | [21] [8] | |
| Meyer Schapiro | Columbia University | Corpus of paintings, drawings, and ornament in manuscripts of southern France from the 10th to the end of the 12th century, with an analysis and interpretation of these works | Also won in 1942 | [22] [8] | ||
| Carl Zigrosser | Weyhe Gallery | Also won in 1940 | [23] [8] | |||
| French History | Leo Gershoy | Sarah Lawrence College | Enlightened despotism | Also won in 1936, 1946, 1959 | [13] [8] | |
| General Nonfiction | Herschel Brickell | History of Natchez, Mississippi | [24] [13] | |||
| John Dos Passos | Essays on American conceptions of freedom of thought | Also won in 1940, 1942 | [25] [13] [8] | |||
| John Joseph Mathews | Conflicting expressions of the American Indian and the invading European | [26] [13] [8] | ||||
| German and East European History | O. Fritiof Ander | Augustana College | History of Sweden since 1815 | Also won in 1938 | [27] [8] | |
| Iberian and Latin American History | Lesley Byrd Simpson | University of California, Berkeley | Also won in 1939 | [28] [8] | ||
| Intellectual History | Ernest Campbell Mossner | Syracuse University | David Hume | Also won in 1945 | [29] [13] [8] | |
| Linguistics | Zellig Sabbettai Harris | University of Pennsylvania | [30] [8] | |||
| Allen Walker Read | University of Chicago | Dictionary of "Briticisms" | Also won in 1938 | [31] [13] [8] | ||
| Harold Whitehall | University of Wisconsin | [32] [8] | ||||
| Literary Criticism | Herbert Joseph Muller | Purdue University | [33] [8] | |||
| Edmund Wilson | Writing | Also won in 1935 | [13] [8] | |||
| Medieval History | Gaines Post | University of Wisconsin, Madison | History of the relations of the Papacy and learning in the later Middle Ages | Also won in 1955 | [34] [8] | |
| Medieval Literature | Charles W. Jones | Cornell University | History of physical sciences in the early Middle Ages | Also won in 1945 | [35] [36] [13] [8] | |
| Music Research | R. D. Darrell | The Gramophone Shop | Book making possible for the listener a new approach to musical experience by use of mechanical media: phonograph, radio, and sound film | [37] [8] | ||
| Philosophy | Everett John Nelson | University of Washington | Metaphysical foundations of formal logic; construction of a system of intensional logic and the application thereof to the problems of logic and logistic | [38] [8] | ||
| Eliseo Vivas | University of Wisconsin | [39] [8] | ||||
| Renaissance History | Wallace K. Ferguson | New York University | Histories and historical interpretations of the Renaissance written from the 15th century to the present | [40] [8] | ||
| United States History | Elmer Ellis | University of Missouri | Biographical study of Finley Peter Dunne and the influence of his writings, especially his Mr. Dooley essays, upon contemporary politics and political discussion | [41] [8] | ||
| Howard Wolf | Cleveland News | History of American news services | Also won in 1940 | [42] [13] [8] | ||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy-Astrophysics | Louis George Henyey | University of Chicago | Theory of the formation of stellar absorption lines | [43] [36] [8] | |
| Biochemistry | Isidore Gersh | Johns Hopkins Medical School | Intracellular distribution of certain organic compounds | [44] [36] [8] | ||
| Biology | Gregory Pincus | Clark University | Developmental physiology of mammalian eggs and embryos | Also won in 1940 | [2] [36] [8] | |
| Chemistry | Rose C. Slater | Newcomb College, Tulane University | Structure of crystals by methods of x-ray analysis | [45] [36] [8] | ||
| Harold R. Snyder | University of Illinois | Configuration of nitrogen in organic compounds | Fellowship postponed until 1951 | [36] [46] [8] | ||
| Melville Lawrence Wolfrom | Ohio State University | General methods of investigating the organic structure of the natural products as carried on in several European laboratories | [47] [36] [8] | |||
| Earth Science | Maurice Ewing | Lehigh University | Deep-sea investigations by gravitational and seismic methods | Also won in 1938, 1953 | [36] [8] | |
| Earl Hamlet Myers | Compton Junior College | Life cycles of the Foraminifera , with special reference to the role of these organisms in the sea and their significance in geological formations | Also won in 1938 | [36] [8] | ||
| Chester Stock | California Institute of Technology | Vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of Mexico | Also won in 1940 | [48] [36] [8] | ||
| Mathematics | Oscar Zariski | Johns Hopkins University | Theory of algebraic varieties from the standpoint of modern algebra | [49] [8] | ||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alfred George Marshak | Mechanism of chromosome division, especially the nature of the chromosome structure as revealed by response to neutron bombardment in a cyclotron | Also won in 1938 | [36] [8] | ||
| Leland S. McClung | University of California | Certain disease-producing and food-spoiling bacteria | [32] [36] [8] | |||
| Emil L. Smith | Columbia University | Kinetics and mechanism of photosynthesis | Also won in 1938 | [36] [8] | ||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Adriaan Joseph van Rossem | California Institute of Technology | European ornithological collections with a view to establishing a permanent nomenclature for American birds | [50] [36] [13] [8] | ||
| Physics | Hubert Maxwell James | Purdue University | Application of wave mechanics to the computation of intensities in band spectra | [51] [36] [8] | ||
| Plant Science | Lawrence Rogers Blinks | Stanford University | Relations of metabolism to the bio-electric properties of large plant cells | Also won in 1948, 1957 | [52] [36] [8] | |
| Earl Martin Hildebrand | Cornell University | Transmission of fruit plant diseases | [36] [13] [8] | |||
| Hilda F. Rosene | University of Texas | Forces and structures involved in the absorption and transport of water by plants | [32] [36] [8] | |||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Karl Richard Bopp | University of Missouri | [53] | ||
| Mary Barnett Gilson | University of Chicago | [43] [8] | ||||
| Elmer Wood | University of Missouri | Policy of the Bank of England, 1847-1873 | [54] [8] | |||
| Political Science | Karl Loewenstein | Amherst College | Research in South America | [55] [8] | ||
| Walter Rice Sharp | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Functional study of the administrative process at the international level | [56] [8] | |||
| Psychology | Robert Tryon | University of California | Inheritance of ability to learn, based upon data derived from a series of experiments on the ability for successive generations of rats to learn their way through complicated mazes | [36] [8] |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Roberto Berdecio | Painting | [57] | ||
| Carlos Orozco Romero | [58] | |||||
| Daniel Serra-Badué | Fine arts | Also won in 1938 | [59] | |||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Raimundo Lida | Universidad de La Plata | Aesthetic and poetics of George Santayana | Also won in 1959 | [60] |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Alberto González Domínguez | [61] | |||
| Mario O. González | Instituto de Matanzas | Differential equations, especially the theory of continuous groups | [62] | |||
| Carlos Graef Fernández | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Theory of probability and mathematical theory of statistics | Also won in 1937, 1938 | [63] | ||
| Medicine | Hugo Pablo Chiodi | Sauberan Foundation | Respiratory phenomena cause by muscular activity in health and disease | Also won in 1940 | [64] | |
| Raúl Palacios von Helms | Institute of Bacteriology, Chile | Filterable viruses, with special reference to rabies | Also won in 1940 | [65] | ||
| Medicine and Health | Henry N. Harkins | Also won in 1938, 1965 | [36] | |||
| Juan Pedro Picena | National University of the Littoral | Modern pathology | [66] | |||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Julio de la Arena y Fernández | Universidad de la Habana | Cellular permeability and intracellular digestion in the protozoa | [67] | ||
| Plant Science | Carlos Muñoz Pizarro | Universidad de Chile | Systematic botany, with special relations to native Chilean forge plants | Also won in 1938 | [68] | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Comparative study of the systems of forced labor in the Spanish and English colonies of North America | Also won in 1937 | [69] |