List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1926

Thirty-seven scholars and artists across 18 states were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1926.[1][2][3]

Fellows

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Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Fine Arts Glen Amos Mitchell Group of paintings: religious and historical in character abroad Also won in 1927 [1][4]
Elizabeth Olds Portraiture [5][1][4]
Frank H. Schwarz Mural decoration in Europe [6][1][4]
Musical Composition Aaron Copland Composition Also won in 1925 [7][4]
Leopold Mannes [8][4]
Roger Sessions Cleveland Institute of Music Also won in 1927 [8][4]
Poetry Stephen Vincent Benét Poetry and prose Also won in 1927 [9][4]
Humanities Architecture, Planning and Design Kenneth John Conant Harvard University Authoritative set of drawings, being restorations of three Romanesque French churches Also won in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1954 [10][11][1][4]
Biography John Donald Wade University of Georgia Early history of Georgia and Alabama [4]
British History Violet Barbour Vassar College Sir George Downing Also won in 1925 [12][4]
Paul Knaplund (no) University of Wisconsin Monograph preparation on William Ewart Gladstone as a colonial statesman [13][4]
Classics Allen Brown West Princeton University Athenian empire Also won in 1925 [4]
English Literature Thomas Middleton Raysor State College of Washington New edition of Coleridge's literary criticism Also won in 1928 [4]
Hyder Edward Rollins New York University Studying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection [4]
Robert Schafer University of Cincinnati New edition of the works of Fulke Greville [14][4]
General Nonfiction Isaac Fisher Danger trends in world race relations Also won in 1925 [4]
German and Scandinavian Literature Walter Silz Harvard University Literature of Heinrich Von Kleist Also won in 1960 [15][4]
Medieval History Warren Ault Boston University English local government [4]
David S. Blondheim Johns Hopkins University Use of romance languages by the Jews [16][17][4]
Near Eastern Studies Ephraim Avigdor Speiser University of Pennsylvania Mitanni group of peoples in Northern Mesopotamia Also won in 1927 [18][4]
Philosophy Ralph Monroe Eaton Harvard University Theory of knowledge in its relation to logic and metaphysics [11][4]
Marjorie Hope Nicolson Goucher College English 17th century thought [19][4]
Theatre Arts Hallie Flanagan Vassar College Developments of the theater in Europe [20][21][4]
Natural Sciences Chemistry Wallace R. Brode Bureau of Standards Azo dyes Also won in 1927 [22][4]
Linus Pauling California Institute of Technology Theoretical and experimental research into the atom Also won in 1927, 1965 [23][4]
Mathematics Ernest Preston Lane University of Chicago Comparative study of geometry [24][4]
Ellis Bagley Stouffer University of Kansas Comparative study of differential geometry [4]
Norbert Wiener Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bohr's almost periodic functions [25][4]
Medicine and Health Julian Herman Lewis University of Chicago Fundamental nature of immunity phenomena [24][4]
Harold Myers Marvin Yale Medical School Cardiovascular physiology [4]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Royal Norton Chapman University of Minnesota Destructive pests [4]
Alfred E. Emerson University of Pittsburgh Origin of the caste of termites [26][4]
Franklin Pearce Reagan University of California, Indiana University Earliest blood vessels of mammalian embryos [4]
Physics Arthur Compton University of Chicago Nature of radiation [24][4]
Edwin C. Kemble Harvard University New quantum theory [11][4]
Ralph A. Sawyer University of Michigan Spectral series relations in extreme ultraviolet metallic spectra [27][4]
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies James Penrose Harland Harvard University Ancient civilizations in Greece, Crete and Cyclades Also won in 1927 [28][4]
Gladys Reichard Columbia University Art style of Melanesia [29][4]
Economics Alzada Comstock Mount Holyoke College League of Nations financial reconstruction work [30][4]
Geography and Environmental Studies Glenn Thomas Trewartha University of Wisconsin Geographic investigations of Japan and China Also won in 1943 [4]
Political Science Herbert Feis University of Cincinnati French-brand German pre-war foreign investments [31][4]
Religion Roland Bainton Yale Divinity School Preparation of a book on religious tolerance [4]
Kenneth James Saunders Pacific School of Religion Oriental religions Also won in 1925 [4]

See also

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References

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  3. ^ "1926". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq "Into art and research". The Kansas City Times. Kansas City, Missouri, USA. 1926-04-19. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-02-20 – via newspapers.com.
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  6. ^ "American Academy in Rome" (PDF). Pencil Points. Vol. 7, no. 7. July 1926. p. 435. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  7. ^ "Aaron Copland Collection". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  8. ^ a b "Guggenheim Fellowship (1925-1929)". University of Washington. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
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  13. ^ "Paul A. Knaplund, 79, Is Dead; Historian Taught at Wisconsin". The New York Times. New York City, New York, USA. 1964-04-11. p. 25. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
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  16. ^ "Johns Hopkins U. man kills self with gas". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 1934-03-20. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
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  19. ^ Tayler, Edward W. (1981). "In Memoriam: Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894-1981)". Journal of the History of Ideas. 42 (4). University of Pennsylvania Press: 665–667. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  20. ^ "Early Playwriting by Women". Yale University Library. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  21. ^ Musso, Anthony P. (2020-12-15). "Federal Theater Project a success under Vassar professor before defunding". Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  22. ^ "Wallace R. Brode". Optica. 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  23. ^ "Linus Pauling". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  24. ^ a b c "Guggenheim Fellowships". University of Chicago. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
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  26. ^ Wilson, Edward O.; Michener, Charles D. (1982). Alfred Edwards Emerson 1896-1976 (PDF). Biographical Memoir. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  27. ^ "Obituaries - Ralph A. Sawyer". Physics Today. 32 (3): 90. doi:10.1063/1.2995471. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  28. ^ "James Penrose Harland". University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  29. ^ Landar, Herbert (January 1980). "American Indian Linguistic Contributions of Gladys A. Reichard: A Bibliography". International Journal of American Linguistics. 46 (1). The University of Chicago Press: 37–40. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
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