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 |
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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Hyder Edward Rollins | New York University | Studying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection | ||||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
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1925
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927
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