List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1944

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Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1944, including thirteen women, the highest number of female recipients ever. [1] [2] [3]

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1944 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsChoreography Martha Graham Modern dancesAlso won in 1932, 1943 [4] [5] [2]
Fiction Marie Campbell West Georgia College Stories based on mountain folkloreAlso 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 SculptureAlso won in 1943 [9] [2]
Carl L. Schmitz  [ de; fr ] [2]
Reynold H. Weidenaar Etching [10] [2]
Ellis Wilson PaintingAlso won in 1945 [2]
Music Composition Theodore Ward Chanler Music compositionAlso 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 peaceAlso won in 1938, 1939 [17] [2]
Karl Jay Shapiro Also won in 1953 [18] [2]
HumanitiesAmerican 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  [ fr ]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 GermanyAlso 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 balladsAlso 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 StatesAlso 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 frontsAlso won in 1945 [2]
Natural SciencesChemistry Melvin Calvin University of California, Berkeley New methods of synthesis in organic chemistry [1] [2] [16]
Earth Science Ruben Arthur Stirton  [ de ] 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 geometryAlso won in 1952 [2]
Molecular and Cellular Biology James Angus Jenkins University of California, Berkeley Varietal differences in cultivated tomatoesAlso 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 mammalsAlso won in 1943 [7] [11] [5] [1] [2]
Joseph Hickey University of Chicago Records of banded birds to benefit conservation effortsAlso won in 1947 [1] [2]
Johannes F. Holtfreter McGill University Causal factors involved in the embryonic development of vertebratesAlso won in 1945 [1] [2]
Plant Science Emma Lucy Braun University of Cincinnati Ecology and taxonomy of the deciduous forestAlso 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 MountainsAlso 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 ScienceEconomics 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]

1944 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFine Arts Lily Garafulic University of Chile [32] [33]
Mauricio Lasansky Work at Atelier 17 Also won in 1943, 1945, 1953, 1964 [34] [33]
HumanitiesPhilosophy Euryalo Cannabrava  [ pt; es ] Colégio Pedro II Also won in 1945 [33]
Jorge Millas  [ es ] University of Chile [33]
United States History Raúl Roa y García University of Havana [33]
Natural SciencesAstronomy and Astrophysics Guido Munch Paniagua National Astronomical Observatory Theoretical astrophysicsAlso won in 1945, 1958 [35] [33]
Chemistry Rafael Aureliano Labriola University of Buenos Aires Research at the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin [33] [35]
Mathematics Alberto Barajas Celis  [ es ] National Autonomous University of Mexico Research at Harvard University [35] [33]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Eduardo Caballero y Caballero National Autonomous University of Mexico [35] [33]
Manuel Maldonado Koerdell Autonomous University of Nuevo León Comparative anatomyAlso won in 1945 [35] [33]
Plant Sciences Elisa Hirschhorn Plant disease fungiAlso won in 1945 [35] [33]
Social SciencesEconomics Adolfo Dorfman Also won in 1943 [36] [33]
Law Enrique Testa Arueste University of Chile [33]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 "Guggenheim Foundation announces soldier scholarships". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. 1944-04-10. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-10-24– via newspapers.com.
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  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Kerr, Adelaide (1944-04-26). "Women win Guggenheim awards". Intelligencer Journal. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-10-24– via newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Mary Elizabeth Campbell". University of Iowa. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "12 New Englanders given Guggenheim fellowships". Montpelier Evening Argus. Montpelier, Vermont, USA. 1944-04-10. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-10-24– via newspapers.com.
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  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "7 named Guggenheim Fellows". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 1944-04-10. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-10-24– via newspapers.com.
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  13. ↑ "Norman Dello Joio". American Ballet Theatre. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
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  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Nine Californians get Guggenheim Fellowships". The Modesto Bee. Modesto, California, USA. 1944-04-10. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-10-24– via newspapers.com.
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  18. ↑ "Karl Shapiro". Poets.org. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
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  20. ↑ Fox, Margalit (2007-08-25). "Madeleine B. Stern, Bookseller and Sleuth, Dies at 95". The New York Times. New York City, New York, USA. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  21. ↑ "PROF. DONALD LEMEN CLARK '11 AUTHORS JOHN MILTON AT ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL". Depauw University. 1948-03-28. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  22. ↑ Quaresima, Leonardo (2004). "INTRODUCTION TO THE 2004 EDITION: REREADING KRACAUER". From Caligari to Hitler. Princeton University Press. p. xx. doi:10.1515/9780691192086-003.
  23. ↑ "Comment and Historical News" . Pacific Historical Review. 13 (2): 225. June 1944. doi:10.2307/3634648.
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  32. ↑ "Lily Garafulic: Centenary Celebration". Art Museum of the Americas. 2014. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  33. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Latin Americans get fellowship". The Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 1944-08-21. p. 18. Retrieved 2022-10-24– via newspapers.com.
  34. ↑ "Mauricio Lasansky". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  35. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Six scientists win Guggenheim Fellowship grants". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. 1944-08-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-10-24– via newspapers.com.
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