List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939

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Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1939. [1] [2]

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1939 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFiction 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 SculptureAlso won in 1938 [6]
Adolf Dehn PaintingAlso 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 peopleAlso won in 1940 [12] [13]
Music Composition Ernst Bacon Converse College CompositionAlso 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 WritingAlso 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]
HumanitiesAmerican Literature Charles John Olson Harvard University Critical history of the growth of Herman Melville through a study of his writing and readingAlso 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 DealAlso 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 enamelsAlso 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 worksAlso 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 thoughtAlso 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 1815Also won in 1938 [27] [8]
Iberian and Latin American History Lesley Byrd Simpson  [ de ] 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 WritingAlso won in 1935 [13] [8]
Medieval History Gaines Post  [ fr ] University of Wisconsin, Madison History of the relations of the Papacy and learning in the later Middle AgesAlso won in 1955 [34] [8]
Medieval Literature Charles W. Jones Cornell University History of physical sciences in the early Middle AgesAlso won in 1945 [35] [36] [13] [8]
Music Research R. D. Darrell The Gramophone ShopBook 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  [ de ] 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  [ de ] 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 servicesAlso won in 1940 [42] [13] [8]
Natural SciencesAstronomy-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 embryosAlso 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 compoundsFellowship 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 methodsAlso 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 formationsAlso won in 1938 [36] [8]
Chester Stock California Institute of Technology Vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of MexicoAlso 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 photosynthesisAlso 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 cellsAlso 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 SciencesEconomics 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]

1939 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFine Arts Roberto Berdecio Painting [57]
Carlos Orozco Romero [58]
Daniel Serra-Badué Fine artsAlso won in 1938 [59]
HumanitiesSpanish and Portuguese Literature Raimundo Lida Universidad de La Plata Aesthetic and poetics of George Santayana Also won in 1959 [60]
Natural SciencesMathematics Alberto González Domínguez [61]
Mario O. González Instituto de MatanzasDifferential equations, especially the theory of continuous groups [62]
Carlos Graef Fernández Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Theory of probability and mathematical theory of statisticsAlso won in 1937, 1938 [63]
Medicine Hugo Pablo Chiodi Sauberan FoundationRespiratory phenomena cause by muscular activity in health and diseaseAlso won in 1940 [64]
Raúl Palacios von Helms Institute of Bacteriology, ChileFilterable 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 plantsAlso won in 1938 [68]
Social SciencesLaw 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 AmericaAlso won in 1937 [69]

See also

References

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