List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1928

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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

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtPaul GreenTheater and drama of Continental Europe for the purpose of gaining technical trainingAlso won in 1929[5][4][6][7]
Lynn RiggsWork on what would later become Green Grow the Lilacs[8]
FictionEric Derwent WalrondWritingAlso won in 1929[9][7]
Fine ArtsAnthony AngarolaKansas City Art InstitutePainting[10][11]
William Auerbach-LevyEducational AllianceEtching and painting[12][13]
Isamu NoguchiUniversity of CaliforniaAlso won in 1927[14]
Eliot O'HaraPainting[15][16]
Doris SpiegelDrawing and painting, and to make a special study of street types in France and Italy[17]
Raymond TurnerSculpture[18]
Music CompositionRobert Russell BennettComposingAlso won in 1929[19][20]
Roy HarrisUniversity of CaliforniaAlso won in 1927, 1976[19][21][14][20]
Quinto MaganiniUniversity of CaliforniaEpic symphony about the life and era of Napoleon I and to work on an opera based on Bret Harte's The Bellringer of AngelsAlso won in 1929[19][21][14][20][7]
Carl McKinleyAlso won in 1927[19]
Bernard RogersAlso won in 1927[19]
PoetryLéonie AdamsPoetry writing and translation of François Villon's lyrics Also won in 1929[22][23]
Countee CullenNarrative poems and the libretto for an opera[24][25][7]
Allen TateAlso won in 1929[26][27]
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureRobert Ernest SpillerSwarthmore CollegeWritings 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 DesignKenneth John ConantHarvard UniversityDrawings 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 LimogesAlso won in 1926, 1929, 1930, 1954[30][31]
Myron Bement SmithYale UniversityBrick and stoneworkAlso won in 1927[32][33]
British HistoryDonald Grove BarnesUniversity of Oregon at EugeneHenry 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]
ClassicsRachel Louise SargentNorth Central CollegeSocial and economic life of Ancient Greece, especially slavery[36][37][38]
Rodney Potter RobinsonUniversity of CincinnatiCompletion of Palaeographia Iberica by the late John Miller Burnham[39][40]
English LiteratureJohn William DraperUniversity of MaineGraveyard School of 18th century poetryAlso won in 1927[38]
John DeLancey FergusonOhio Wesleyan UniversityPreparation of a complete text edition of the Letters of Robert Burns, re-edited from the original manuscripts[41][42]
Thurman Losson HoodHarvard UniversityCompiling and editing for publication a volume of the uncollected letters of Robert Browning[43]
Glenn Arthur HughesUniversity of Washington, SeattleThe imagist and related movements in poetry[44][14][35]
Alan Dugald McKillopRice InstituteSamuel Richardson[45]
Thomas Middleton RaysorState College of WashingtonPreparation of a corrected edition of S. T. Coleridge's lectures and marginalia on Shakespeare and other literary remainsAlso won in 1926[46]
Helen Constance WhiteUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonMystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th century EnglandAlso won in 1930[47][48]
Louis Booker WrightUniversity of North CarolinaReflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642Also won in 1929[49][6][50][51]
French HistoryE. Malcolm CarrollDuke UniversityInfluence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French RepublicAlso won in 1927[6]
Louis R. GottschalkUniversity of LouisvilleCareer and influence of General Lafayette, specifically on the several revolutionary movements with which he was connectedAlso won in 1954[52][4][53]
French LiteratureEdith PhilipsGoucher CollegeQuaker and Quaker ideas in French Literature with particular reference to the eighteenth century[54][51]
General NonfictionFelix M. MorleyThe Baltimore SunOperation of the League of NationsAlso won in 1929[55][1][51]
Nathaniel PefferOld and established Eastern civilizations of the impact of industrialism and nationalism, the two principal products of the West brought to the EastAlso won in 1927[56][57]
Medieval LiteratureHarry Caplan [de]Cornell UniversityHistory of medieval theories of rhetoricAlso won in 1956[58][4]
Roland Mitchell SmithWesleyan UniversityHistorical and legal literature of ancient IrelandAlso won in 1929[59]
Medieval HistoryCarl StephensonUniversity of WisconsinPreparing for publication of a volume of studies in municipal history[48][60]
Music ResearchNicholas G.J. BallantaMusical conception of the African peoples and a comparison of that conception with the older systems of music in EuropeAlso won in 1927[61][62][7]
PhilosophySidney HookNew York University[citation needed]Also won in 1929, 1953[63]
ReligionRobert Pierce CaseyUniversity of CincinnatiPreparation of critical editions of the texts of St. Athanasius of Alexandria De Incarnatione and of Titus of Bostra Contra ManichaeoAlso won in 1929[40][64][65]
Renaissance HistoryAlbert HymaUniversity of MichiganThe youth of Erasmus[66][65]
South Asian StudiesW. Norman BrownUniversity of PennsylvaniaJainism, 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 LiteratureCharles E. Kany [es]University of CaliforniaLife in Madrid during the 18th century[21]
Antonio García SolalindeUniversity of Wisconsin[48]
United States HistoryTheodore C. BlegenUniversity of MinnesotaNorwegian immigration to the United States[67][68][11]
Curtis Putnam NettelsUniversity of Wisconsin[48]
Natural SciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsWillem Jacob LuytenHarvard UniversityPhotographing of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1905Also won in 1929, 1937[69][7]
Otto StruveUniversity of Chicago[52]
ChemistryGeorge Hopkins ColemanUniversity of Iowa[60]
Earl C. Gilbert[70]
Earth SciencePerry ByerlyUniversity of CaliforniaAmerican earthquakesAlso won in 1952[60][21][14][7]
EngineeringLester E. ReukemaUniversity of CaliforniaElectric discharge in gases at high frequencies and the breakdown of solid insulating materials under high electric stress[21][14][7]
MathematicsOlive C. HazlettAlso won in 1929[71]
Medicine and HealthWilliam Vernon ConeColumbia UniversityReactions of the intestinal cells of the central nervous system and related subjects[60]
Robert Richard DieterleUniversity of Michigan[65][72]
John Charnley McKinleyUniversity of MinnesotaQuantitative studies on human muscle tonus with special reference to the relation of tonus measurements to electromyography[73][68][11]
Warren Kidwell Stratman-ThomasUniversity of WisconsinTherapeutic value of six new arsenical compounds in the chemo-therapy of sleeping sickness in animals and menAlso won in 1929[48][50]
Organismic Biology and EcologyRalph Erskine ClelandGoucher CollegeChromosome constitution and behavior in the evening primroses in relation to certain genetical problemsAlso won in 1927[74][51]
Emmett Reid DunnSmith CollegeCentral American reptiles and amphibians, and salamanders of the Ambystomidae family[1][7]
Dwight Elmer MinnichUniversity of Minnesota; American Society of ZoologistsPhysiological studies of the chemical senses of insects[68][75][11]
Homer William SmithUniversity of VirginiaPhysiological study of certain rare species of lung fishes which live in the waters of the Nile River and the Mediterranean SeaAlso won in 1930[76][77][51][50]
PhysicsJohn Joseph HopfieldUniversity of CaliforniaSpectra of oxygen and nitrogen[21][14][7]
Roy J. Kennedy [de]California Institute of TechnologyEstablishment of a consistent theory of radiationAlso won in 1929[4][14][51][50][7]
Noel Charlton LittleBowdoin CollegeThermomagnetic 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 WatsonUniversity of ChicagoStructure of molecules and the nature of chemical reactions in gases[52][11][79]
Plant ScienceRichard BradfieldAlso won in 1927[80]
Rodney Beecher HarveyUniversity of MinnesotaWinter hardiness of plans of northern RussiaAlso won in 1927[68][11]
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesEdwin Meyer LoebUniversity of CaliforniaPrimitive peoples of Sumatra and adjacent western islands[21][14][7]
Robert H. Pfeiffer[81]
EconomicsLionel Danforth EdieUniversity of ChicagoAlso won in 1929[52]
Alvin Harvey HansenUniversity of MinnesotaEconomic readjustment in Germany during the period from 1920 to 1927[68][11]
Political ScienceLeonard Dupee WhiteAlso won in 1927[52]
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