List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927

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Sixty-three John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1927 to representatives of 22 states.[1][2][3][4] $143,000 was disbursed.[5]

1927 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFictionWalter WhiteNational Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleLynching in the United States[6][7][8]
Fine ArtsJohn Wesley CarrollArt Students League of New YorkPainting[9][8]
Samuel Vance ChamberlainUniversity of MichiganEtching and drypoint[8][5]
Avard FairbanksUniversity of OregonSculpture[10][8][5]
Glen Amos MitchellPaintingAlso won in 1926[11]
Isamu NoguchiSculptureAlso won in 1928[12][8]
Dorothy OchtmanPainting[13][8]
Fine Arts ResearchErnest Theodore DeWaldPrinceton UniversityPublication of manuscripts of Stuttgart Psalter and a catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts at the library in Einsiedeln, SwitzerlandAlso won in 1931[14][8][5]
General NonfictionNathaniel PefferNew School for Social ResearchEffects of industrialism and nationalist on the Far EastAlso won in 1928[15][16][8]
Music CompositionRoy HarrisCompositionAlso won in 1928, 1976[17][8][18][5]
Carl McKinleyCapital TheatreAlso won in 1928[17][8]
Bernard RogersAlso won in 1928[17]
Roger SessionsAlso won in 1926[17][19]
Theodore J. Stearns[17]
PoetryStephen Vincent BenétLong narrative poem about the American Civil WarAlso won in 1926[20][21]
HumanitiesArchitecture, Planning and DesignMyron Bement SmithItalian brickwork of the Lombard periodAlso won in 1928[22][23][8]
British HistoryFrederick Charles DietzUniversity of Illinois, UrbanaEnglish government finance from 1558 to 1640[14][8][5]
Judith Blow WilliamsWellesley CollegeEfforts, both of individuals and through concerted private and governmental action, to open markets for the products of the Industrial Revolution in EnglandAlso won in 1929[14][8]
ClassicsMarion Elizabeth BlakeConverse CollegeRepublican and Augustan pavements of ItalyAlso won in 1929, 1953[14][8][5]
William Jerome WilsonState Normal School at CheneyThe Shepherd of Hermas[24][8][5]
English LiteratureFord Keeler BrownSt. John's College, AnnapolisHannah MoreAlso won in 1929, 1930[14][8][5]
John William DraperUniversity of MaineBibliography of 18th century works on aesthetics and for origins of the "Graveyard School" of 18th century poetry in Great BritainAlso won in 1928[14][8]
John Andrew Rice, Jr.University of NebraskaAuthorship of A Tale of a Tub[25][26][8][5]
Arthur Wellesley SecordUniversity of IllinoisDaniel Defoe[27][8][5]
Harold William ThompsonNew York State College for TeachersBiographyAlso won in 1925[28]
French HistoryE. Malcolm CarrollDuke UniversityInfluence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French RepublicAlso won in 1928[14][8][5]
Raphael DemosHarvard UniversityPhilosophy of evolution and social philosophy in France[1][8]
French LiteratureFred G. HoffherrColumbia UniversityPreparation for the publication of the manuscript Victor Hugo's Journal d'Exil[29][8]
German and East European HistoryFrank Dunstone GrahamPrinceton UniversityCommercial and industrial consequences of the rapid depreciation of the German and Polish monetary units of the post-war period[30][8][5]
German and Scandinavian LiteratureArcher TaylorUniversity of ChicagoMethods used in folklore study for tracing the history of the popular balladAlso won in 1960[31][8][5]
Iberian and Latin American HistoryJ. Fred RippyDuke UniversityLatin America in world affairs[8][5]
Intellectual and Cultural HistoryBernadotte Everly SchmittUniversity of ChicagoOrigins and responsibility for the World War[31][8][5]
Literary CriticismOdell ShepardTrinity CollegePreparation of a book Romantic Solitude and for research in the history of the romantic movement[32][8]
Music ResearchNicholas G.J. BallantaMusical conceptions of African peoples and comparison to older musical systems of EuropeAlso won in 1928[33][34][8]
Near Eastern StudiesEphraim Avigdor SpeiserUniversity of PennsylvaniaAlso won in 1926[35][5]
South Asian StudiesHelen Moore JohnsonTranslation and commentary of Hemacandra's Loves of Sixty-three Famous Men[14][36][8][5]
United States HistoryFrank Lawrence OwsleyVanderbilt UniversityCertain phases of the relations of Europe and the Confederacy[37][8][5]
Richard Joseph PurcellCatholic University of AmericaIrish immigration to the United States from 1790 to the time of the American Civil War[38][8][5]
George Malcolm StephensonUniversity of MinnesotaHistory of Swedish immigration to the United States[39][40][41][8][5]
Natural SciencesChemistryWallace R. BrodeBureau of StandardsAbsorption spectra of aniline dyesAlso won in 1926[42][43][5][44]
George Ernest GibsonUniversity of California, BerkeleyTheory of band spectra[45][8][18]
Linus PaulingCalifornia Institute of TechnologyAlso won in 1926, 1965[46][47][18][5]
Lloyd Hilton ReyersonUniversity of MinnesotaContact catalysisAlso won in 1957[2][41][8][5]
MathematicsPhilip FranklinMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyIntegral equations, orthogonal functions, and their relation to almost periodic functions[14][8]
Harry Shultz VandiverUniversity of Texas, AustinFermat's Last Theorem and the laws of reciprocity in the theory of algebraic numbersAlso won in 1930[48][8][5]
Medicine and HealthWilliam Ruthrauff AmbersonUniversity of PennsylvaniaMechanisms involved in the electrical stimulation of nerve and music[14][49][8]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyEdward Frederick AdolphUniversity of RochesterInternal factors that control the size of organisms, particularly during growth[50][8]
Organismic Biology & EcologyRalph Erskine ClelandGoucher CollegeChromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose, as related to certain genetical problemsAlso won in 1928[14][51][8][5]
Lewis Victor HeilbrunnUniversity of MichiganColloid chemistry of protoplasm[52][8][5]
Edwin Blake PaysonUniversity of WyomingTaxonomy in relation to generic phylogenies[53][5]
PhysicsCarl EckartCalifornia Institute of TechnologyNew quantum theory[54][8][18][5]
William Vermillion HoustonCalifornia Institute of TechnologyRecent developments in quantum mechanics as applied to the explanation of spectra[14][8][18][5]
Frank C. HoytUniversity of ChicagoQuantum theory and its meaning for radiation and atomic structure[31][8][5]
Victor F. LenzenUniversity of California, BerkeleyStatistical mechanics[14][8]
Manuel Sandoval VallartaMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyConnection between Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity[8]
Jay Walter WoodrowIowa State CollegePhosphorescent, chemiluminescencent and photoelectric properties of cod liver oil and other substances which either have anti-rachitic characteristics or can be activated by treatment with ultra-violet light[2][8][5]
Plant SciencesRichard BradfieldUniversity of MissouriPrinciples involved in the purification of colloids by electrodialysisAlso won in 1928[55][8][5]
William Henry EysterUniversity of MainePhysiology of the chloroplastid pigments[2][8]
Rodney Beecher HarveyUniversity of MinnesotaLow temperature effects on plantsAlso won in 1928[41][8][5]
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesJames Penrose HarlandUniversity of CincinnatiCivilizations of the Bronze Age in and around GreeceAlso won in 1927[56][57][5][58]
EconomicsMollie Ray CarrollGoucher CollegePresent-day system of unemployment insurance in Germany[59][8][5]
Political ScienceRoger Hewes Wells [de]Bryn Mawr CollegePreparation of the book Municipal Government in the German Commonwealth[60][8][5]
Leonard Dupee WhiteUniversity of ChicagoTrade unions and professional organizations in the public service of Great BritainAlso won in 1928[14][31][8][5]
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