List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1936

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Sixty Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1936, bringing the total number of recipients to 525.[1][2][3] The Guggenheim family donated an additional $1,000,000 to the Foundation, increasing the scholarship pool to $6,000,000.[2]

1936 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtLeopold Atlas [de]Playwriting[4][5][6]
Albert Bein[4][5][6]
Robert TurneyAlso won in 1937[5][6]
FictionJames Thomas FarrellUniversity of ChicagoWriting[7][8][6]
Josephine Herbst[9][10][6]
Fine ArtsPeter BlumePaintingAlso won in 1932[4][11][12][7]
Aaron BohrodAlso won in 1937[9][11][7]
Jon CorbinoAlso won in 1937[11][13]
Peppino MangraviteSarah Lawrence CollegeAlso won in 1932[11][14]
Doris RosenthalNew York Public SchoolsGraphic images from cultures around the world arranged by subject rather than regionAlso won in 1931[15][9][4][11][12]
Antonio SalemmeSculptureAlso won in 1932[16][11]
Harry SternbergDangers of the working and living environments of coal and steel workers[17][11]
Carl WaltersSculptureAlso won in 1935[11][7]
Music CompositionDante Fiorillo [de]CompositionAlso won in 1935, 1937, 1938[18]
PoetryEdward DoroWriting[4][7]
Kenneth Flexner Fearing[5][19]
Jacob Hauser[3][4]
Kenneth Patchen[5][20]
Isidor SchneiderAlso won in 1934[4][5]
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureJoseph Leon EdelHavas News AgencyVolume of unpublished playsAlso won in 1938, 1965[6]
Morris RobertsReevaluation of Henry James' novels and a study of their literary relations[21]
Architecture, Planning, and DesignCatherine Krouse BauerAmerican Federation of LaborWestern European and Soviet housing[9][22][7]
BibliographyDonald Goddard WingYale UniversityShort-title list, with locations of all books published in Great Britain or in English from 1641 to 1700[12][7]
BiographyJohn Edwin BakelessSarah Lawrence CollegeChristopher MarloweAlso won in 1945[23][14]
British HistoryGarrett MattinglyLong Island UniversityCatherine of Aragon with special reference to her influence on English foreign policy, on the development of English humanism, and on the course of the English Reformation under Henry VIIIAlso won in 1945, 1953, 1960[3]
ClassicsThomas A. BradyUniversity of Missouri, ColumbiaEgyptian religions[24][7]
Charles Farwell Edson, Jr.History of ancient MacedoniaAlso won in 1937, 1956[25]
Economic HistoryLeland Hamilton JenksWellesley CollegeMigration of the British capital, 1875-1914[26][7]
English LiteratureDonald Alfred StaufferPrinceton UniversityHistory of English biography and autobiography of the 18th century[27][7]
French LiteratureJean Paul MisrahiColumbia UniversityCritical edition of Chretien de Troyes' Erec and Enide[3]
Pierre Robert VigneronUniversity of ChicagoPhysiological and critical study of the life of Marie Henri Beyle[8][9][7]
French HistoryLeo GershoyLong Island UniversityReinterpretation of the theories and policies of 18th-century enlightened despotism as a stage in European historyAlso won in 1939, 1946, 1959[3][4]
Donald Malcolm GreerBiography of Paul Barras[26][7]
Saul K. PadoverUniversity of CaliforniaLife of Louis XVI as a symbol of declining civilization[4][28][7]
General NonfictionZora Neale HurstonPractice of obeahAlso won in 1937[9][29]
Donald Culross PeattieRobert Owen's New Harmony experimentAlso won in 1937[9][7]
Glanville Wynkoop SmithHistory of the West Indies[30][31]
Literary CriticismGranville HicksInterpretation of English literature since 1890 with reference to the influence of social change upon literature[5][32]
Medieval LiteratureJohn Webster SpargoNorthwestern UniversityEnglish law and literature of the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceAlso won in 1930[9][7]
Music ResearchRalph Leonard Kirkpatrick17th- and 18th-century chamber music[33][7][5]
Spanish and Portuguese LiteratureIrving A. LeonardUniversity of CaliforniaCultural and intellectual history of Colonial Spanish America[34][28][7]
United States HistoryPerry Gilbert Eddy MillerHarvard UniversityIntellectual history of New England to the middle of the 18th century[26][7]
Ernest Staples OsgoodUniversity of MinnesotaHistory of Montana[35][31][7]
Natural ScienceChemistryGeorge Willard WhelandCalifornia Institute of TechnologyOrganic molecules[25][7]
MathematicsSolomon Gandz[4]
Marshall Harvey StoneHarvard UniversityTheory of linear representation in abstract spaces[26][7]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyJames Thomas CulbertsonColumbia UniversityHumoral and cellular immunological phenomena in the mechanism underlying the immunity against parasitic diseases, particularly the protozoan and helminthic infestations of manAlso won in 1946[36]
Michael HeidelbergerColumbia UniversityAlso won in 1934[37]
Morris MooreBarnard Free Skin and Cancer HospitalDisease-producing fungi of North and South AmericaAlso won in 1935[24][7]
Lloyd Raymond WatsonAlfred UniversityHoney bees[38][5][6][12][7]
Perry William WilsonUniversity of WisconsinBacterial fixation of nitrogen (with Marjory Stephenson)[39][7]
Organismic Biology and EcologyHarold Francis BlumUniversity of CaliforniaBiological photo-sensitizationAlso won in 1945, 1953[28][7]
George Whitfield Deluz HamlettUnited States Biological SurveyEmbryology and the reproductive cycles of various South American mammalsAlso won in 1937[40]
Social SciencesEconomicsAbram Lincoln HarrisInstitutional economicsAlso won in 1935, 1943, 1953[41]
LawAlexander Nahum SackNew York UniversityBusiness taxation[4][5]
Political ScienceLennox Algernon MillsUniversity of MinnesotaPostwar politics and other conditions in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and Malay StatesAlso won in 1957, 1959[31][7]
PsychologyDonald McLean PurdyUniversity of MaineEuropean functional psychology[42][7]
SociologyClifford Kirkpatrick [fr]University of MinnesotaPsychological adjustment of German and Austrian women[31][7]
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1936 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
HumanitiesIberian and Latin American HistoryAndrés HenestrosaNational University of MexicoSignificance of Zapotecan cultureAlso won in 1937[43]
Natural ScienceEarth SciencePedro J. Bermúdez HernándezAlso won in 1935[44][45]
Medicine and HealthEnrique SavinoAlso won in 1935, 1937[44]
Adalberto Steeger SchaefferHospital Manuel ArriaránInfectious diseases especially as related to pediatrics[46]
PhysicsAlfredo Baños, Jr.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoPhysical nature of dielectric constant and the conductivity of dielectricsAlso won in 1935, 1937, 1957[47]
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