List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1938

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Fifty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1938.[1][2]

1938 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtArthur ArentFederal Theatre ProjectPlaywriting[3][4]
FictionAugust William DerlethWriting[5]
Clifford Shirley Dowdey[6][7][8]
Katherine Anne PorterAlso won in 1931[9][10]
Richard Wright[11]
Fine ArtsAhron Ben-ShmuelSculptureAlso won in 1937[12]
Janet de CouxAlso won in 1939[13]
Lu DubleAlso won in 1937[14][8][4][10]
David FredenthalCranbrook Academy of ArtPaintingAlso won in 1939[15][16]
George GroszSterne-Grosz art schoolAlso won in 1937[17]
Rosella HartmanAlso won in 1934[8][4]
Frank MechauMural paintings of Diego Rivera and José Clemente OrozcoAlso won in 1934, 1935[18][10]
Music CompositionPaul CrestonSt. Malachy Roman Catholic ChurchCompositionAlso won in 1939[19][20]
David Diamond[21][4]
Dante Fiorillo [de]Also won in 1935, 1936, 1937[22]
William Grant StillAlso won in 1934, 1935[23][10]
PhotographyEdward WestonWestern United StatesAlso won in 1937[24][10]
PoetryAsher BrynesWritingAlso won in 1939, 1944[25]
Rolfe HumphriesWoodmere Academy[26][4]
Carlyle Ferren MacIntyreUniversity of California, Los Angeles[27][10]
Theatre ArtsSamuel SeldenUniversity of North CarolinaBasic design in the directing of plays[28][8]
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureJoseph Leon EdelHavasEdition of Henry James' unpublished playsAlso won in 1936, 1965[29][4]
Architecture, Planning and DesignLewis MumfordCompletion of a book on Form by the addition of material obtained firsthand in EuropeAlso won in 1932, 1956[30][4]
ClassicsFaith ThompsonUniversity of MinnesotaConstitutional history[31][32]
Virginia Randolph GraceDates and places of manufacture of earthware jars in the Mediterranean basin during the period of classical antiquity as the basis for a history of the commerce of the region during that periodAlso won in 1953[33]
Fine Arts ResearchMarvin Chauncey RossWalters Art MuseumByzantine enamelsAlso won in 1939, 1948, 1952[34][35]
Carl SchusterPennsylvania Museum of ArtChinese folk artAlso won in 1937[7][10]
General NonfictionJosef BergerFederal Writers' ProjectTall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England portsAlso won in 1946. Pseudonym: Digges, Jeremiah.[36][2]
German and East European HistoryO. Fritiof AnderAugustana CollegeHistory of Sweden since 1815Also won in 1939[37]
Literary CriticismRichard Palmer BlackmurLife and works of Henry AdamsAlso won in 1937[38]
Mary M. ColumIdeas that have made modern literatureAlso won in 1930[39][4]
LinguisticsPeter Alexis BoodbergUniversity of California, BerkeleyReconstruction of archaic Chinese and studies of cultural interactions between China and Central AsiaAlso won in 1955, 1963[40][10]
Allen Walker ReadUniversity of ChicagoDictionary of "Briticisms"Also won in 1939[41][2][8][4][10]
Medieval LiteratureJacob HammerHunter CollegeDefinite text of Geoffrey of Monmouth's history of BritainAlso won in 1929, 1931[42][4]
Frederick M. SalterNortheast Experimental Junior CollegeEdition of the Chester Craft Plays and a monograph of its history[43]
United States HistoryFoster Rhea DullesRecreational activities in America from the colonial period until modern times, with an interpretation of changing trends in popular use of leisure time[44]
Walter Prescott WebbUniversity of TexasRelationship between democratic government and an open frontierAlso won in 1954[45][10]
Natural ScienceEarth ScienceMaurice EwingLehigh UniversityGeophysical investigations of oceanic basins by gravitational and seismic methodsAlso won in 1953, 1955[46][7][10]
Earl Hamlet MyersScripps Institution of OceanographyLife cycles of Foraminifera, with special reference to the role of these organisms in the sea and their significance in geological formationsAlso won in 1939[47][10]
Adolf PabstUniversity of California, BerkeleyOrientation of minerals in granitic rock; silicate crystal structure[48][10]
MathematicsD. H. LehmerLehigh UniversityAnalytic theory of numbers, especially in connection with the arithmetical theory of elliptic modular functions[49][7]
Medicine and HealthHenry N. HarkinsSurgical and trauma shock, particularly as seen in burnsAlso won in 1939, 1965[50]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyAlfred George MarshakNew England Deaconess HospitalMechanism of chromosome divisionAlso won in 1939[51]
Emil L. SmithColumbia UniversityChlorophyll-protein complexAlso won in 1939[52]
Organismic Biology & EcologyMyron GordonAnalysis of the evolutionary process in the development of Mexican platyfishAlso won in 1940[53][10]
Clyde E. KeelerHarvard Medical SchoolBook on genetics in relation to medicine[54]
Arthur LoveridgeHarvard UniversityEcological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rainforest remnants in East AfricaAlso won in 1933[55]
Colin Campbell SanbornField MuseumTaxonomic revision of six families of bats[2]
Jack Henry SandgroundHarvard University Medical SchoolComparative parasitology, chiefly in the Dutch East Indies[56]
PhysicsTom Wilkerson BonnerRice InstituteNuclear physics[57]
Samuel Abraham GoudsmitUniversity of MichiganRecent developments of the theory of nuclear structure[58][16]
Plant ScienceAlden Springer CraftsUniversity of California, DavisAnatomical and physiological study of plantsAlso won in 1957[59][10]
Philip Alexander MunzPomona CollegeOnagraceae in South America[60][10]
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesSherburne Friend CookUniversity of California, BerkeleyBiological influence of the influx of Western European civilization on the indigenous population of Spanish AmericaAlso won in 1947[61][10]
Alfred MétrauxUniversity of California, Bishop MuseumGran Chaco aboriginal populationAlso won in 1940[62][10]
Political ScienceLloyd K. GarrisonUniversity of Wisconsin School of LawBritish labor legislation[34][63]
Charles Rumford WalkerInfluence of radical political movements in the U.S. since 1917[2]
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1938 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFine ArtsLeopoldo Méndez[64]
Daniel Serra BaduéAlso won in 1939[65]
Music CompositionCarlos ChávezCompositionAlso won in 1956[2][10]
Natural SciencesMathematicsCarlos Graef FernándezUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoTheory of probability and mathematical theory of statisticsAlso won in 1937, 1939[66]
Medicine and HealthJoaquín Maass y PatiñoJuárez HospitalClinical studies in neurosurgery[67]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyConrado Federico AsenjoUniversity of Puerto RicoSystematic study of the chemical composition and active principles of the medicinal and poisonous plants of the West IndiesAlso won in 1937, 1954[68]
Organismic Biology & EcologyPedro Martínez-EsteveUniversidad Nacional de CórdobaPhysiology of reproduction[69]
Plant ScienceCarlos Muñoz PizarroUniversidad de ChileSystematic botany, with special relations to native Chilean forage plantsAlso won in 1939[70]
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesCarlos García RobiouUniversidad de La HabanaCuban prehistoryAlso won in 1937[71][72]
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