List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931

Seventy-seven artists and scholars, including 13 women, received fellowships,[1][2] which added up to $4,500,000 in $2,500 increments.[3] Cuban fellows were elected for the first time.[4]

1931 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Art Drama and Performance Arts Emjo Basshe [1][5][3]
Kate Clugston Creative writing [1][6][7]
Fiction Walter Stanley Campbell University of Oklahoma Biography of Sitting Bull Pseudonym: Stanley Vestal. Also won in 1930. [1][8][5]
Maurice Hindus Writing [5][1][3][9]
Katherine Anne Porter Also won in 1938 [10]
Fine Arts Emil Bisttram Mural painting [1][11][12]
Alexander Brook Painting [1][13]
Harold Cash Sculpture Also won in 1930 [5][1]
Harry Gottlieb Painting [1][14][3]
Marsden Hartley Painting [5][1][15][12]
Oronzio Maldarelli Sculpture Also won in 1943 [1]
Reuben Nakian Sculpture [1][16]
Joseph Pollet Painting [1]
Ione Robinson Painting [5][1][17][12]
Doris Rosenthal Columbia Teachers College Painting Also won in 1936 [1][18][3][12]
Alexander Raoul Stavenitz Etching [19][1]
Music Composition Otto Luening Composing Also won in 1931, 1974 [1][20]
Poetry Hart Crane Writing [21][5]
John Crowe Ransom Vanderbilt University [22][23]
Genevieve Taggard Mt. Holyoke College [24][1][25][5][17]
Humanities American Literature Harry Hayden Clark University of Wisconsin Industrial Revolution in the Yorkshire woolen and worsted industries [1][26]
Architecture, Planning and Design Cecil Clair Briggs Architectural restoration of the Acropolis of Athens [5][1]
Biography Carleton Beals Porfirio Diaz [24][1][27][17][12]
Economic History Herbert Heaton University of Minnesota Volume 2: History of the woolen industry in England [1][28][5][29]
John Ewing Orchard Columbia University Transition occurring in China from agriculture and household industries to modern manufacturing [1][30][31]
George Ward Stocking University of Texas Mexican oil industry, the social control set up by the state, economic consequences of this program, and the future of the industry [1][32][33][12]
Education William Edward Zeuch Commonwealth College Workers' education projects of Western Europe [1][5]
English Literature Thomas Whitfield Baldwin University of Illinois [1][34][9]
George Bruner Parks Washington University in St. Louis Influence of English voyages from 1600 to 1660 on science and imaginative literature [19][1]
George William Williamson University of Oregon Metaphysical element in English literature of the first half of the 17th century [24][1][17]
Fine Arts Research Anita Brenner Pre-Spanish art in the southern countries of the North American continent Also won in 1930 [1][3][12]
Francis Henry Taylor Pennsylvania Museum of Art Romanesque sculpture of the Roussillon, with special reference to the sculpture from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines and the origins of the style of the 11th century [1][35]
Ernest Theodore DeWald Princeton University Stuttgart Psalter Also won in 1927 [1]
French Literature Salomon Alhadef Rhodes City College of New York French romantic poetry [1]
Iberian and Latin American History Lesley Byrd Simpson (de) University of California Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain Also won in 1939 [1][36][24][17][12]
Literary Criticism John Van Horne University of Illinois Bernardo de Balbuena Also won in 1929 [31][1][12]
Medieval Literature Erika von Erhardt-Siebold Mt. Holyoke College Edition of the Latin Anglo-Saxon riddles [1]
Jacob Hammer Hunter College Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain Also won in 1929, 1938 [37][1][38]
Leslie W. Jones City College of New York Script of Tours Also won in 1929 [1][39]
Clark Harris Slover University of Texas Channels which were available for the transmission of literature and tradition from Ireland to Great Britain before the Arthurian Romances Also won in 1925 [40][1]
Music Research Henry Dixon Cowell New Music Quarterly Materials used in extra-European musical systems [1][20][24][5][17]
Roy Dickinson Welch Smith College History of music Also won in 1930 [1]
Philosophy Helen Huss Parkhurst Barnard College Architecture of Continental cathedrals and Oriental mosques [41][1]
Religion Harvie Branscomb Duke University Comparative study of Jewish and Christian ethics in the 1st and 2nd centuries [1][9]
Russian History William Henry Chamberlin Christian Science Monitor History of the Russian Revolution from the downfall of Tsarism to the adoption of the New Economic Policy Also won in 1934 [42]
United States History Reginald C. McGrane University of Cincinnati British investment in the United States, 1830-1860 Also won in 1930 [1][43]
Natural Science Applied Mathematics Gustav C. Dahl Massachusetts Institute of Technology European practices in electric power transmission [1]
Lydik S. Jacobsen Stanford University Earthquake-resistant flexible building materials [24][1][44]
Chemistry Ermon Dwight Eastman University of California Structure and properties of atomic nuclei [24][1][45][17]
George Sutton Parks Stanford University Thermal chemistry of organic compounds [24][1][17]
Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr. University of Illinois Also won in 1930 [1]
George Scatchard Massachusetts Institute of Technology Theories of liquid solution [1][46]
Earth Science Walter Scott Adkins University of Texas [1][32]
Geography and Environmental Studies Carl O. Sauer University of California Effects of Spanish colonization on native Indian land systems and population groupings [24][1][47][17][12]
Medicine and Health Edward Lee Howes Yale University Also won in 1930 [1]
Molecular and Cellular Biology Arthur H. Steinhaus Central YMCA College Physiology of exercise [1][48]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Hilario Atanacio Roxas University of the Philippines [1]
Samuel Brody University of Missouri Chemistry of growth in certain domestic animals Also won in 1929 [1][3]
Mary Stuart MacDougall Agnes Scott College Effects of ultraviolet radiation upon protozoa [1][9]
Horace Wesley Stunkard (de)(fr) New York University Life history of certain parasitic worms [1][49][50]
Physics Jerome Boley Green Ohio State University Effect of magnetic fields on the emission of spectrum lines [1][43]
Jens Rud Nielsen California Institute of Technology Raman spectra and molecular structure [1][51][17]
Henry DeWolf Smyth Princeton University [1]
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Ruth L. Bunzel Columbia University Indian backgrounds of the Mexican Nation Also won in 1930 [1][12]
Lila Morris O'Neale University of California Inca and pre-Inca textile collections in Peru [24][1][17][12]
Economics Dorothy Johnson Orchard Social movements accompanying the industrialization of China, including an analysis of the labor supply of China, the labor movement, and use of boycotting as an economic and political weapon [31][1]
Sociology Joseph Fulling Fishman New York City Department of Correction Conditions in jails in the United States [5][1][3]

1931 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Humanities Economic History Jorge Roa y Reyes University of Havana Economic relationship between the United States and the Latin American Republics [4]
Iberian and Latin American History Vera Lee Brown Smith College Relations of England and Spain as colonial powers in the 18th century [1][12]
Herminio Portell Vilá University of Havana Historical relationship between Cuba and the United States, with particular attention to the question of annexation Also won in 1932, 1933 [4]
Music Research Augusto Novaro (it) Musical theory [52][12]
Philosophy Homero Mario Guglielmini National University of the Littoral Principal currents of philosophy in the United States [53][12]
Natural Science Earth Science Tomás Barrera y Arenas National University of Mexico Metallurgy, with special reference to non-metallic metals and the methods and technique of geophysical exploration [52][12]
Mathematics Genaro Moreno García-Conde Academia de Guerra School of Military Engineering Mathematical research, especially in the theory of functions of real variables [12]
Medicine and Health Eduardo Bunster Montero University of Chile Physiology of the ovary and of certain glands of internal secretion [12]
Guillermo Montaño Islas Ministry of Education (Mexico) Rural sociology and economics; rural hygiene and public health [52][12]
Molecular and Cellular Biology Salomón Horovitz University of Buenos Aires Cytology and genetics [12][3]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Carlos Guillermo Aguayo y Castro University of Havana Taxonomic studies in the fields of malacology and entomology [4]
Plant Sciences Manuel Elgueta Guérin Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura Application of genetics to the improvement of plants Also won in 1932 [12]
Social Science Economics Carlos García Mata Department of Finance and Public Works, Province of Santa Fe Methods of predicting economic phenomena [54][12]

See also

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