List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939

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Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1939.[1][2]

1939 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFictionHarold Augustus SinclairWriting[3]
Robert Penn WarrenLouisiana State UniversityAlso won in 1947[4]
Richard WrightFederal Writers' Project[5]
Fine ArtsJanet de CouxSculptureAlso won in 1938[6]
Adolf DehnPaintingAlso won in 1951[7][8]
David FredenthalCranbrook Academy of ArtAlso won in 1938[9][8]
Josette Hébert-CoëffinAlso won in 1937[citation needed]
John McCradyFederal Art ProjectPainting: Faith and lives of African Americans in the South[10][8]
Eugene TrenthamPainting[11]
Harry WickeySculpture: Depictions of New York peopleAlso won in 1940[12][13]
Music CompositionErnst BaconConverse CollegeCompositionAlso won in 1942, 1964[14]
Paul CrestonSt. Malachy Roman Catholic ChurchAlso won in 1938[15]
Anis FuleihanG. Shirmer, Inc.[14]
William Howard SchumanSarah Lawrence CollegeAlso won 1940[14][13]
PoetryAsher BrynesWritingAlso won in 1938, 1944[16][13][8]
Kenneth FearingAlso won in 1936[13][8]
Theatre ArtsWilliam Smith Clark IIUniversity of CincinnatiHistory of the stage in Ireland[17][8]
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureCharles John OlsonHarvard UniversityCritical history of the growth of Herman Melville through a study of his writing and readingAlso won in 1948[2][8]
BiographyArthur McCandless WilsonDartmouth CollegeAlso won in 1956[18][8]
ClassicsMichael GinsburgUniversity of NebraskaAncient Rome's New DealAlso won in 1942[19][8]
Richard Mansfield HaywoodJohns Hopkins UniversityCities of Roman Africa, their political and economic organization, and their relations with the surrounding country and with each other[20][8]
Fine Arts ResearchMarvin Chauncey RossWalters Art GalleryCorpus of all known Byzantine enamels, including a catalogue and an introduction giving the history and classification of Byzantine enamelsAlso won in 1938, 1948, 1952[21][8]
Meyer SchapiroColumbia UniversityCorpus of paintings, drawings, and ornament in manuscripts of southern France from the 10th to the end of the 12th century, with an analysis and interpretation of these worksAlso won in 1942[22][8]
Carl ZigrosserWeyhe GalleryAlso won in 1940[23][8]
French HistoryLeo GershoySarah Lawrence CollegeEnlightened despotismAlso won in 1936, 1946, 1959[13][8]
General NonfictionHerschel BrickellHistory of Natchez, Mississippi[24][13]
John Dos PassosEssays on American conceptions of freedom of thoughtAlso won in 1940, 1942[25][13][8]
John Joseph MathewsConflicting expressions of the American Indian and the invading European[26][13][8]
German and East European HistoryO. Fritiof AnderAugustana CollegeHistory of Sweden since 1815Also won in 1938[27][8]
Iberian and Latin American HistoryLesley Byrd Simpson [de]University of California, BerkeleyAlso won in 1939[28][8]
Intellectual HistoryErnest Campbell MossnerSyracuse UniversityDavid HumeAlso won in 1945[29][13][8]
LinguisticsZellig Sabbettai HarrisUniversity of Pennsylvania[30][8]
Allen Walker ReadUniversity of ChicagoDictionary of "Briticisms"Also won in 1938[31][13][8]
Harold WhitehallUniversity of Wisconsin[32][8]
Literary CriticismHerbert Joseph MullerPurdue University[33][8]
Edmund WilsonWritingAlso won in 1935[13][8]
Medieval HistoryGaines Post [fr]University of Wisconsin, MadisonHistory of the relations of the Papacy and learning in the later Middle AgesAlso won in 1955[34][8]
Medieval LiteratureCharles W. JonesCornell UniversityHistory of physical sciences in the early Middle AgesAlso won in 1945[35][36][13][8]
Music ResearchR. D. DarrellThe Gramophone ShopBook making possible for the listener a new approach to musical experience by use of mechanical media: phonograph, radio, and sound film[37][8]
PhilosophyEverett John Nelson [de]University of WashingtonMetaphysical foundations of formal logic; construction of a system of intensional logic and the application thereof to the problems of logic and logistic[38][8]
Eliseo VivasUniversity of Wisconsin[39][8]
Renaissance HistoryWallace K. Ferguson [de]New York UniversityHistories and historical interpretations of the Renaissance written from the 15th century to the present[40][8]
United States HistoryElmer EllisUniversity of MissouriBiographical study of Finley Peter Dunne and the influence of his writings, especially his Mr. Dooley essays, upon contemporary politics and political discussion[41][8]
Howard WolfCleveland NewsHistory of American news servicesAlso won in 1940[42][13][8]
Natural SciencesAstronomy-AstrophysicsLouis George HenyeyUniversity of ChicagoTheory of the formation of stellar absorption lines[43][36][8]
BiochemistryIsidore GershJohns Hopkins Medical SchoolIntracellular distribution of certain organic compounds[44][36][8]
BiologyGregory PincusClark UniversityDevelopmental physiology of mammalian eggs and embryosAlso won in 1940[2][36][8]
ChemistryRose C. SlaterNewcomb College, Tulane UniversityStructure of crystals by methods of x-ray analysis[45][36][8]
Harold R. SnyderUniversity of IllinoisConfiguration of nitrogen in organic compoundsFellowship postponed until 1951[36][46][8]
Melville Lawrence WolfromOhio State UniversityGeneral methods of investigating the organic structure of the natural products as carried on in several European laboratories[47][36][8]
Earth ScienceMaurice EwingLehigh UniversityDeep-sea investigations by gravitational and seismic methodsAlso won in 1938, 1953[36][8]
Earl Hamlet MyersCompton Junior CollegeLife cycles of the Foraminifera, with special reference to the role of these organisms in the sea and their significance in geological formationsAlso won in 1938[36][8]
Chester StockCalifornia Institute of TechnologyVertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of MexicoAlso won in 1940[48][36][8]
MathematicsOscar ZariskiJohns Hopkins UniversityTheory of algebraic varieties from the standpoint of modern algebra[49][8]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyAlfred George MarshakMechanism of chromosome division, especially the nature of the chromosome structure as revealed by response to neutron bombardment in a cyclotronAlso won in 1938[36][8]
Leland S. McClungUniversity of CaliforniaCertain disease-producing and food-spoiling bacteria[32][36][8]
Emil L. SmithColumbia UniversityKinetics and mechanism of photosynthesisAlso won in 1938[36][8]
Organismic Biology and EcologyAdriaan Joseph van RossemCalifornia Institute of TechnologyEuropean ornithological collections with a view to establishing a permanent nomenclature for American birds[50][36][13][8]
PhysicsHubert Maxwell JamesPurdue UniversityApplication of wave mechanics to the computation of intensities in band spectra[51][36][8]
Plant ScienceLawrence Rogers BlinksStanford UniversityRelations of metabolism to the bio-electric properties of large plant cellsAlso won in 1948, 1957[52][36][8]
Earl Martin HildebrandCornell UniversityTransmission of fruit plant diseases[36][13][8]
Hilda F. RoseneUniversity of TexasForces and structures involved in the absorption and transport of water by plants[32][36][8]
Social SciencesEconomicsKarl Richard BoppUniversity of Missouri[53]
Mary Barnett GilsonUniversity of Chicago[43][8]
Elmer WoodUniversity of MissouriPolicy of the Bank of England, 1847-1873[54][8]
Political ScienceKarl LoewensteinAmherst CollegeResearch in South America[55][8]
Walter Rice SharpUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonFunctional study of the administrative process at the international level[56][8]
PsychologyRobert TryonUniversity of CaliforniaInheritance of ability to learn, based upon data derived from a series of experiments on the ability for successive generations of rats to learn their way through complicated mazes[36][8]
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1939 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

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CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFine ArtsRoberto BerdecioPainting[57]
Carlos Orozco Romero[58]
Daniel Serra-BaduéFine artsAlso won in 1938[59]
HumanitiesSpanish and Portuguese LiteratureRaimundo LidaUniversidad de La PlataAesthetic and poetics of George SantayanaAlso won in 1959[60]
Natural SciencesMathematicsAlberto González Domínguez[61]
Mario O. GonzálezInstituto de MatanzasDifferential equations, especially the theory of continuous groups[62]
Carlos Graef FernándezUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoTheory of probability and mathematical theory of statisticsAlso won in 1937, 1938[63]
MedicineHugo Pablo ChiodiSauberan FoundationRespiratory phenomena cause by muscular activity in health and diseaseAlso won in 1940[64]
Raúl Palacios von HelmsInstitute of Bacteriology, ChileFilterable viruses, with special reference to rabiesAlso won in 1940[65]
Medicine and HealthHenry N. HarkinsAlso won in 1938, 1965[36]
Juan Pedro PicenaNational University of the LittoralModern pathology[66]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyJulio de la Arena y FernándezUniversidad de la HabanaCellular permeability and intracellular digestion in the protozoa[67]
Plant ScienceCarlos Muñoz PizarroUniversidad de ChileSystematic botany, with special relations to native Chilean forge plantsAlso won in 1938[68]
Social SciencesLawSilvio Arturo Zavala ValladoUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoComparative study of the systems of forced labor in the Spanish and English colonies of North AmericaAlso won in 1937[69]
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