List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1928

Fifty-nine fellowships were awarded to artists and scholars from more than 20 states and 16 previous winners had their fellowships extended.[1][2][3] $173,000 was disbursed.[4]

1928 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Paul Green Theater and drama of Continental Europe for the purpose of gaining technical training Also won in 1929 [5][4][6][7]
Lynn Riggs Work on what would later become Green Grow the Lilacs [8]
Fiction Eric Derwent Walrond Writing Also won in 1929 [9][7]
Fine Arts Anthony Angarola Kansas City Art Institute Painting [10][11]
William Auerbach-Levy Educational Alliance Etching and painting [12][13]
Isamu Noguchi University of California Also won in 1927 [14]
Eliot O'Hara Painting [15][16]
Doris Spiegel Drawing and painting, and to make a special study of street types in France and Italy [17]
Raymond Turner Sculpture [18]
Music Composition Robert Russell Bennett Composing Also won in 1929 [19][20]
Roy Harris University of California Also won in 1927, 1976 [19][21][14][20]
Quinto Maganini University of California Epic symphony about the life and era of Napoleon I and to work on an opera based on Bret Harte's The Bellringer of Angels Also won in 1929 [19][21][14][20][7]
Carl McKinley Also won in 1927 [19]
Bernard Rogers Also won in 1927 [19]
Poetry Léonie Adams Poetry writing and tarnslation of François Villon's lyrics Also won in 1929 [22][23]
Countee Cullen Narrative poems and the libretto for an opera [24][25][7]
Allen Tate Also won in 1929 [26][27]
Humanities American Literature Robert Ernest Spiller Swarthmore College Writings of James Fennimore Cooper and other studies in the influence of English and other European cultures on the earliest period of American literature in London [28][29][1]
Architecture, Planning and Design Kenneth John Conant Harvard University Drawings of the restorations of the French Romanesque Churches the Abbey Church in Cluny, the Church of St. Mary in Tours, and the Church of St. Martial at Limoges Also won in 1926, 1929, 1930, 1954 [30][31]
Myron Bement Smith Yale University Brick and stonework Also won in 1927 [32][33]
British History Donald Grove Barnes University of Oregon at Eugene Henry Pelham, emphasizing Pelham's part in the administration of Walpole and the significance in English history of his own ministry from 1743 to 1754 [34][35]
Classics Rachel Louise Sargent North Central College Social and economic life of Ancient Greece, especially slavery [36][37][38]
Rodney Potter Robinson University of Cincinnati Completion of Palaeographia Iberica by the late John Miller Burnham [39][40]
English Literature John William Draper University of Maine Graveyard School of 18th century poetry Also won in 1927 [38]
John DeLancey Ferguson Ohio Wesleyan University Preparation of a complete text edition of the Letters of Robert Burns, re-edited from the original manuscripts [41][42]
Thurman Losson Hood Harvard University Compiling and editing for publication a volume of the uncollected letters of Robert Browning [43]
Glenn Arthur Hughes University of Washington, Seattle The imagist and related movements in poetry [44][14][35]
Alan Dugald McKillop Rice Institute Samuel Richardson [45]
Thomas Middleton Raysor State College of Washington Preparation of a corrected edition of S. T. Coleridge's lectures and marginalia on Shakespeare and other literary remains Also won in 1926 [46]
Helen Constance White University of Wisconsin, Madison Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th century England Also won in 1930 [47][48]
Louis Booker Wright University of North Carolina Reflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642 Also won in 1929 [49][6][50][51]
French History E. Malcolm Carroll Duke University Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic Also won in 1927 [6]
Louis R. Gottschalk University of Louisville Career and influence of General Lafayette, specifically on the several revolutionary movements with which he was connected Also won in 1954 [52][4][53]
French Literature Edith Philips Goucher College Quaker and Quaker ideas in French Literature with particular reference to the eighteenth century [54][51]
General Nonfiction Felix M. Morley The Baltimore Sun Operation of the League of Nations Also won in 1929 [55][1][51]
Nathaniel Peffer Old and established Eastern civilizations of the impact of industrialism and nationalism, the two principal products of the West brought to the East Also won in 1927 [56][57]
Medieval Literature Harry Caplan (de) Cornell University History of medieval theories of rhetoric Also won in 1956 [58][4]
Roland Mitchell Smith Wesleyan University Historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland Also won in 1929 [59]
Medieval History Carl Stephenson University of Wisconsin Preparing for publication of a volume of studies in municipal history [48][60]
Music Research Nicholas G.J. Ballanta Musical conception of the African peoples and a comparison of that conception with the older systems of music in Europe Also won in 1927 [61][62][7]
Philosophy Sidney Hook New York University[citation needed] Also won in 1929, 1953 [63]
Religion Robert Pierce Casey (de) University of Cincinnati Preparation of critical editions of the texts of St. Athanasius of Alexandria De Incarnatione and of Titus of Bostra Contra Manichaeo Also won in 1929 [40][64][65]
Renaissance History Albert Hyma University of Michigan The youth of Erasmus [66][65]
South Asian Studies W. Norman Brown University of Pennsylvania Jainism, with special emphasis on the study of the legends and history centering around the saga Kalaka as preserve in Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, of the texts themselves, and of the art of the paintings illustrating certain manuscripts of these texts [28][1][51][50]
Spanish and Portuguese Literature Charles Emil Kany (es) University of California Life in Madrid during the 18th century [21]
Antonio García Solalinde University of Wisconsin [48]
United States History Theodore C. Blegen University of Minnesota Norwegian immigration to the United States [67][68][11]
Curtis Putnam Nettels University of Wisconsin [48]
Natural Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Willem Jacob Luyten Harvard University Photographing of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1905 Also won in 1929, 1937 [69][7]
Otto Struve University of Chicago [52]
Chemistry George Hopkins Coleman University of Iowa [60]
Earl C. Gilbert [70]
Earth Science Perry Byerly University of California American earthquakes Also won in 1952 [60][21][14][7]
Engineering Lester E. Reukema University of California Electric discharge in gases at high frequencies and the breakdown of solid insulating materials under high electric stress [21][14][7]
Mathematics Olive C. Hazlett Also won in 1929 [71]
Medicine and Health William Vernon Cone Columbia University Reactions of the intestinal cells of the central nervous system and related subjects [60]
Robert Richard Dieterle University of Michigan [65][72]
John Charnley McKinley University of Minnesota Quantitative studies on human muscle tonus with special reference to the relation of tonus measurements to electromyography [73][68][11]
Warren Kidwell Stratman-Thomas University of Wisconsin Therapeutic value of six new arsenical compounds in the chemo-therapy of sleeping sickness in animals and men Also won in 1929 [48][50]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Ralph Erskine Cleland Goucher College Chromosome constitution and behavior in the evening primroses in relation to certain genetical problems Also won in 1927 [74][51]
Emmett Reid Dunn Smith College Central American reptiles and amphibians, and salamanders of the Ambystomidae family [1][7]
Dwight Elmer Minnich University of Minnesota; American Society of Zoologists Physiological studies of the chemical senses of insects [68][75][11]
Homer William Smith University of Virginia Physiological study of certain rare species of lung fishes which live in the waters of the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea Also won in 1930 [76][77][51][50]
Physics John Joseph Hopfield University of California Spectra of oxygen and nitrogen [21][14][7]
Roy James Kennedy (de) California Institute of Technology Establishment of a consistent theory of radiation Also won in 1929 [4][14][51][50][7]
Noel Charlton Little Bowdoin College Thermomagnetic properties of gaseous molecules by a new method of convective flow with the view of studying their structure and spatial quantitization [38]
Francis Wheeler Loomis [78]
William Weldon Watson University of Chicago Structure of molecules and the nature of chemical reactions in gases [52][11][79]
Plant Science Richard Bradfield Also won in 1927 [80]
Rodney Beecher Harvey University of Minnesota Winter hardiness of plans of northern Russia Also won in 1927 [68][11]
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Edwin Meyer Loeb University of California Primitive peoples of Sumatra and adjacent western islands [21][14][7]
Robert H. Pfeiffer [81]
Economics Lionel Danforth Edie University of Chicago Also won in 1929 [52]
Alvin Harvey Hansen University of Minnesota Economic readjustment in Germany during the period from 1920 to 1927 [68][11]
Political Science Leonard Dupee White Also won in 1927 [52]

See also

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