List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1926

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Thirty-seven scholars and artists across 18 states were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1926.[1][2][3]

Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFine ArtsGlen Amos MitchellGroup of paintings: religious and historical in character abroadAlso won in 1927[1][4]
Elizabeth OldsPortraiture[5][1][4]
Frank H. SchwarzMural decoration in Europe[6][1][4]
Musical CompositionAaron CoplandCompositionAlso won in 1925[7][4]
Leopold Mannes[8][4]
Roger SessionsCleveland Institute of MusicAlso won in 1927[8][4]
PoetryStephen Vincent BenétPoetry and proseAlso won in 1927[9][4]
HumanitiesArchitecture, Planning and DesignKenneth John ConantHarvard UniversityAuthoritative set of drawings, being restorations of three Romanesque French churchesAlso won in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1954[10][11][1][4]
BiographyJohn Donald WadeUniversity of GeorgiaEarly history of Georgia and Alabama[4]
British HistoryViolet BarbourVassar CollegeSir George DowningAlso won in 1925[12][4]
Paul KnaplundUniversity of WisconsinMonograph preparation on William Ewart Gladstone as a colonial statesman[13][4]
ClassicsAllen Brown WestPrinceton UniversityAthenian empireAlso won in 1925[4]
English LiteratureThomas Middleton RaysorState College of WashingtonNew edition of Coleridge's literary criticismAlso won in 1928[4]
Hyder Edward RollinsNew York UniversityStudying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection[4]
Robert SchaferUniversity of CincinnatiNew edition of the works of Fulke Greville[14][4]
General NonfictionIsaac FisherDanger trends in world race relationsAlso won in 1925[4]
German and Scandinavian LiteratureWalter SilzHarvard UniversityLiterature of Heinrich Von KleistAlso won in 1960[15][4]
Medieval HistoryWarren AultBoston UniversityEnglish local government[4]
David S. BlondheimJohns Hopkins UniversityUse of romance languages by the Jews[16][17][4]
Near Eastern StudiesEphraim Avigdor SpeiserUniversity of PennsylvaniaMitanni group of peoples in Northern MesopotamiaAlso won in 1927[18][4]
PhilosophyRalph Monroe EatonHarvard UniversityTheory of knowledge in its relation to logic and metaphysics[11][4]
Marjorie Hope NicolsonGoucher CollegeEnglish 17th century thought[19][4]
Theatre ArtsHallie FlanaganVassar CollegeDevelopments of the theater in Europe[20][21][4]
Natural SciencesChemistryWallace R. BrodeBureau of StandardsAzo dyesAlso won in 1927[22][4]
Linus PaulingCalifornia Institute of TechnologyTheoretical and experimental research into the atomAlso won in 1927, 1965[23][4]
MathematicsErnest Preston LaneUniversity of ChicagoComparative study of geometry[24][4]
Ellis Bagley StoufferUniversity of KansasComparative study of differential geometry[4]
Norbert WienerMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBohr's almost periodic functions[25][4]
Medicine and HealthJulian Herman LewisUniversity of ChicagoFundamental nature of immunity phenomena[24][4]
Harold Myers MarvinYale Medical SchoolCardiovascular physiology[4]
Organismic Biology and EcologyRoyal Norton ChapmanUniversity of MinnesotaDestructive pests[4]
Alfred E. EmersonUniversity of PittsburghOrigin of the caste of termites[26][4]
Franklin Pearce ReaganUniversity of California, Indiana UniversityEarliest blood vessels of mammalian embryos[4]
PhysicsArthur ComptonUniversity of ChicagoNature of radiation[24][4]
Edwin C. KembleHarvard UniversityNew quantum theory[11][4]
Ralph A. SawyerUniversity of MichiganSpectral series relations in extreme ultraviolet metallic spectra[27][4]
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesJames Penrose HarlandHarvard UniversityAncient civilizations in Greece, Crete and CycladesAlso won in 1927[28][4]
Gladys ReichardColumbia UniversityArt style of Melanesia[29][4]
EconomicsAlzada ComstockMount Holyoke CollegeLeague of Nations financial reconstruction work[30][4]
Geography and Environmental StudiesGlenn Thomas TrewarthaUniversity of WisconsinGeographic investigations of Japan and ChinaAlso won in 1943[4]
Political ScienceHerbert FeisUniversity of CincinnatiFrench-brand German pre-war foreign investments[31][4]
ReligionRoland BaintonYale Divinity SchoolPreparation of a book on religious tolerance[4]
Kenneth James SaundersPacific School of ReligionOriental religionsAlso won in 1925[4]
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