Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1944, including thirteen women, the highest number of female recipients ever. [1] [2] [3]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Choreography | Martha Graham | Modern dances | Also won in 1932, 1943 | [4] [5] [2] | |
Fiction | Marie Campbell | West Georgia College | Stories based on mountain folklore | Also won in 1955 | [6] [5] [2] | |
Israel James Kapstein | [7] | |||||
J. Saunders Redding | Elizabeth City State College | Also won in 1959 | [8] [2] | |||
Fine Arts | Donald Harcourt De Lue | Sculpture | Also won in 1943 | [9] [2] | ||
Carl L. Schmitz | [2] | |||||
Reynold H. Weidenaar | Etching | [10] [2] | ||||
Ellis Wilson | Painting | Also won in 1945 | [2] | |||
Music Composition | Theodore Ward Chanler | Music composition | Also won in 1956 | [7] [11] [12] [2] | ||
Norman Dello Joio | Also won in 1945 | [12] [2] [13] | ||||
Gail T. Kubik | Also won in 1965 | [12] [2] [14] | ||||
Normand Lockwood | Also won in 1943 | [2] | ||||
Harry Partch | Also won in 1943, 1950 | [15] [2] | ||||
Poetry | Howard Baker | University of California | Verse drama of early California | [16] | ||
Asher Brynes | Police principles and the problem of peace | Also won in 1938, 1939 | [17] [2] | |||
Karl Jay Shapiro | Also won in 1953 | [18] [2] | ||||
Humanities | American Literature | Charles Warren Everett | [2] | |||
Leon Howard | Northwestern University | [19] [2] | ||||
Harry T. Levin | Harvard University | Technique of symbolism in American fiction, with particular reference to Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James | Also won in 1943 | [7] [11] | ||
Madeleine B. Stern | Long Island City High School | Biography of Louisa May Alcott | Also won in 1943 | [20] [5] [2] | ||
Hugh Mason Wade | Also won in 1943 | [7] [2] | ||||
Architecture, Planning and Design | Chloethiel Woodard Smith | University of San Andres | City planning | [5] [2] | ||
Biography | Henrietta Buckmaster | Period 1830-1865 New England, woven around the life of William Lloyd Garrison and covering the development of the anti-slavery movement | [5] [2] | |||
British History | William Huse Dunham, Jr. | Also won in 1945 | [7] [2] | |||
English Literature | Arthur E. Barker | [2] | ||||
Gerald E. Bentley | [2] | |||||
Donald Lemen Clark | Columbia University | John Milton at St. John's School (published 1948) | Also won in 1957 | [21] [2] | ||
Lucy Poate Stebbins | English women novelists of the 19th century to determine relationship between material and social environment and character of work | [11] [7] [2] | ||||
Carl Jefferson Weber | [7] [2] | |||||
Film, Video and Radio Studies | Siegfried Kracauer | Social, political, and artistic situation in postwar Germany | Also won in 1943, 1945 | [22] [2] | ||
Fine Arts Research | Jean Charlot | Also won in 1946 | [2] | |||
Robert J. Goldwater | [2] | |||||
Elizabeth Wilder Weismann | Library of Congress | Sculpture of the Mexican colonial period | Also won in 1945 | [5] [2] | ||
Folklore and Popular Culture | Bertrand Harris Bronson | University of California | Musical literary companion to Francis James Child's English and Scottish popular ballads | Also won in 1943, 1948 | [16] [2] | |
French History | George P. Cuttino | Also won in 1952 | [2] | |||
General Nonfiction | Carey McWilliams | Functioning of organized religions as social institutions in the United States | Also won in 1941 | [16] [2] | ||
Linguistics | Hans Kurath | [7] [2] | ||||
Literary Criticism | Morton Dauwen Zabel | Loyola University Chicago | Life of Joseph Conrad | Also won in 1962 | [2] | |
Medieval Literature | Sylvia L. Thrupp | Social structure and ethical teaching of the Middle Ages | [23] [5] | |||
Music Research | Robert Shaw | Berkshire Music Center; Collegiate Chorale | Musical theory and the techniques of instrumental and choral conducting, and preparation of a book on the development of symphonic choruses | [24] [16] [2] | ||
Philosophy | Abraham Edel | City College of New York | [25] [2] | |||
Marvin Farber | [2] | |||||
Renaissance History | Josephine Waters Bennett | Hunter College | Cultural development of England, from Chaucer to Moore | Also won in 1955 | [5] [2] | |
Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Joaquín Casalduero | Also won in 1954 | [7] [11] [2] | |||
United States History | Adrienne Koch | Office of Economic Warfare | Beginnings of Republican government, viewed through the social and political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe | Also won in 1945 | [5] [2] | |
Henry Fowles Pringle | History of World War II from standpoints of both the home and military fronts | Also won in 1945 | [2] | |||
Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Melvin Calvin | University of California, Berkeley | New methods of synthesis in organic chemistry | [1] [2] [16] | |
Earth Science | Ruben Arthur Stirton | University of California | Search of fossil vertebraes in South America to obtain evidence on dates and position of prehistoric water barriers between American continents | [16] [2] | ||
Mathematics | André Weil | Algebraic geometry | Also won in 1952 | [2] | ||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | James Angus Jenkins | University of California, Berkeley | Varietal differences in cultivated tomatoes | Also won in 1952 | [1] [2] [16] | |
Frank Harris Johnson | Also won in 1945, 1950 | [2] | ||||
Valy Menkin | Free Hospital for Women | Chemical basis of inflammation in wounds | [7] [11] [2] | |||
Cornelis Bernardus van Niel | Also won in 1954 | [16] [2] [26] | ||||
Janet McCarter Woolley | University of Wisconsin | Action of tuberculin | [2] | |||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Kenneth W. Cooper | Princeton University | Research at the California Institute of Technology | Also won in 1945 | [27] | |
Tilly Edinger | Harvard University | Development of teeth in the evolutionary line leading from ancestral fish to mammals | Also won in 1943 | [7] [11] [5] [1] [2] | ||
Joseph Hickey | University of Chicago | Records of banded birds to benefit conservation efforts | Also won in 1947 | [1] [2] | ||
Johannes F. Holtfreter | McGill University | Causal factors involved in the embryonic development of vertebrates | Also won in 1945 | [1] [2] | ||
Plant Science | Emma Lucy Braun | University of Cincinnati | Ecology and taxonomy of the deciduous forest | Also won in 1943 | [5] [2] | |
George Neville Jones | [2] | |||||
Bassett Maguire | [2] | |||||
Aaron John Sharp | University of Tennessee | Phytogeographical relationship between the highlands of Mexico and the Southern Appalachian Mountains | Also won in 1945 | [28] [2] | ||
William N. Takahashi | Cornell University (visiting) | Mechanism of virus reproduction | [29] [16] [2] | |||
Paul Weatherwax | Indiana University | Origins of corn | [1] [2] [30] | |||
Social Science | Economics | Harold Amos Logan | University of Toronto | [31] [2] | ||
Political Science | Walter Bernhard Schiffer | Institute for Advanced Study | Conflicting theoretical ideas underlying establishment and activity of the League of Nations | Also won in 1946 | [2] | |
Psychology | Hudson Hoagland | Smith College | Form and meaning in Cervantes' Don Quixote and Persiles | [7] [11] [2] | ||
Theodore Christian Schneirla | Also won in 1945 | [2] | ||||
Sociology | Robert England | Demobilization problems in Allied Nations and Germany | [2] |