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Thirty-seven scholars and artists across 18 states were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1926.

Fellows

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Hyder Edward Rollins New York University Studying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection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

See also

References

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