List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1926
Appearance
Thirty-seven scholars and artists across 18 states were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1926.[1][2][3]
Fellows[edit]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Glen Amos Mitchell | Group of paintings: religious and historical in character abroad | Also won in 1927 | [1][4] | |
Elizabeth Olds | Portraiture | [5][1][4] | ||||
Frank H. Schwarz | Mural decoration in Europe | [6][1][4] | ||||
Musical Composition | Aaron Copland | Composition | Also won in 1925 | [7][4] | ||
Leopold Mannes | [8][4] | |||||
Roger Sessions | Cleveland Institute of Music | Also won in 1927 | [8][4] | |||
Poetry | Stephen Vincent Benét | Poetry and prose | Also won in 1927 | [9][4] | ||
Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Kenneth John Conant | Harvard University | Authoritative set of drawings, being restorations of three Romanesque French churches | Also won in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1954 | [10][11][1][4] |
Biography | John Donald Wade | University of Georgia | Early history of Georgia and Alabama | [4] | ||
British History | Violet Barbour | Vassar College | Sir George Downing | Also won in 1925 | [12][4] | |
Paul Knaplund (no) | University of Wisconsin | Monograph preparation on William Ewart Gladstone as a colonial statesman | [13][4] | |||
Classics | Allen Brown West | Princeton University | Athenian empire | Also won in 1925 | [4] | |
English Literature | Thomas Middleton Raysor | State College of Washington | New edition of Coleridge's literary criticism | Also won in 1928 | [4] | |
Hyder Edward Rollins | New York University | Studying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection | [4] | |||
Robert Schafer | University of Cincinnati | New edition of the works of Fulke Greville | [14][4] | |||
General Nonfiction | Isaac Fisher | Danger trends in world race relations | Also won in 1925 | [4] | ||
German and Scandinavian Literature | Walter Silz | Harvard University | Literature of Heinrich Von Kleist | Also won in 1960 | [15][4] | |
Medieval History | Warren Ault | Boston University | English local government | [4] | ||
David S. Blondheim | Johns Hopkins University | Use of romance languages by the Jews | [16][17][4] | |||
Near Eastern Studies | Ephraim Avigdor Speiser | University of Pennsylvania | Mitanni group of peoples in Northern Mesopotamia | Also won in 1927 | [18][4] | |
Philosophy | Ralph Monroe Eaton | Harvard University | Theory of knowledge in its relation to logic and metaphysics | [11][4] | ||
Marjorie Hope Nicolson | Goucher College | English 17th century thought | [19][4] | |||
Theatre Arts | Hallie Flanagan | Vassar College | Developments of the theater in Europe | [20][21][4] | ||
Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Wallace R. Brode | Bureau of Standards | Azo dyes | Also won in 1927 | [22][4] |
Linus Pauling | California Institute of Technology | Theoretical and experimental research into the atom | Also won in 1927, 1965 | [23][4] | ||
Mathematics | Ernest Preston Lane | University of Chicago | Comparative study of geometry | [24][4] | ||
Ellis Bagley Stouffer | University of Kansas | Comparative study of differential geometry | [4] | |||
Norbert Wiener | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Bohr's almost periodic functions | [25][4] | |||
Medicine and Health | Julian Herman Lewis | University of Chicago | Fundamental nature of immunity phenomena | [24][4] | ||
Harold Myers Marvin | Yale Medical School | Cardiovascular physiology | [4] | |||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Royal Norton Chapman | University of Minnesota | Destructive pests | [4] | ||
Alfred E. Emerson | University of Pittsburgh | Origin of the caste of termites | [26][4] | |||
Franklin Pearce Reagan | University of California, Indiana University | Earliest blood vessels of mammalian embryos | [4] | |||
Physics | Arthur Compton | University of Chicago | Nature of radiation | [24][4] | ||
Edwin C. Kemble | Harvard University | New quantum theory | [11][4] | |||
Ralph A. Sawyer | University of Michigan | Spectral series relations in extreme ultraviolet metallic spectra | [27][4] | |||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | James Penrose Harland | Harvard University | Ancient civilizations in Greece, Crete and Cyclades | Also won in 1927 | [28][4] |
Gladys Reichard | Columbia University | Art style of Melanesia | [29][4] | |||
Economics | Alzada Comstock | Mount Holyoke College | League of Nations financial reconstruction work | [30][4] | ||
Geography and Environmental Studies | Glenn Thomas Trewartha | University of Wisconsin | Geographic investigations of Japan and China | Also won in 1943 | [4] | |
Political Science | Herbert Feis | University of Cincinnati | French-brand German pre-war foreign investments | [31][4] | ||
Religion | Roland Bainton | Yale Divinity School | Preparation of a book on religious tolerance | [4] | ||
Kenneth James Saunders | Pacific School of Religion | Oriental religions | Also won in 1925 | [4] |
See also[edit]
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1925
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927
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