List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939


Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1939.

1939 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFictionHarold Augustus SinclairWriting
Creative ArtsFictionRobert Penn WarrenLouisiana State UniversityWritingAlso won in 1947
Creative ArtsFictionRichard WrightFederal Writers' ProjectWriting
Creative ArtsFine ArtsJanet de CouxSculptureAlso won in 1938
Creative ArtsFine ArtsAdolf DehnPaintingAlso won in 1951
Creative ArtsFine ArtsDavid FredenthalCranbrook Academy of ArtPaintingAlso won in 1938
Creative ArtsFine ArtsJosette Hébert-CoëffinAlso won in 1937
Creative ArtsFine ArtsJohn McCradyFederal Art ProjectPainting: Faith and lives of African Americans in the South
Creative ArtsFine ArtsEugene TrenthamPainting
Creative ArtsFine ArtsHarry WickeySculpture: Depictions of New York peopleAlso won in 1940
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionErnst BaconConverse CollegeCompositionAlso won in 1942, 1964
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionPaul CrestonSt. Malachy Roman Catholic ChurchCompositionAlso won in 1938
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionAnis FuleihanG. Shirmer, Inc.Composition
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionWilliam Howard SchumanSarah Lawrence CollegeCompositionAlso won 1940
Creative ArtsPoetryAsher BrynesWritingAlso won in 1938, 1944
Creative ArtsPoetryKenneth FearingWritingAlso won in 1936
Creative ArtsTheatre ArtsWilliam Smith Clark IIUniversity of CincinnatiHistory of the stage in Ireland
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureCharles John OlsonHarvard UniversityCritical history of the growth of Herman Melville through a study of his writing and readingAlso won in 1948
HumanitiesBiographyArthur McCandless WilsonDartmouth CollegeAlso won in 1956
HumanitiesClassicsMichael GinsburgUniversity of NebraskaAncient Rome's New DealAlso won in 1942
HumanitiesClassicsRichard Mansfield HaywoodJohns Hopkins UniversityCities of Roman Africa, their political and economic organization, and their relations with the surrounding country and with each other
HumanitiesFine 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
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchMeyer 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
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchCarl ZigrosserWeyhe GalleryAlso won in 1940
HumanitiesFrench HistoryLeo GershoySarah Lawrence CollegeEnlightened despotismAlso won in 1936, 1946, 1959
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionHerschel BrickellHistory of Natchez, Mississippi
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionJohn Dos PassosEssays on American conceptions of freedom of thoughtAlso won in 1940, 1942
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionJohn Joseph MathewsConflicting expressions of the American Indian and the invading European
HumanitiesGerman and East European HistoryO. Fritiof AnderAugustana CollegeHistory of Sweden since 1815Also won in 1938
HumanitiesIberian and Latin American HistoryUniversity of California, BerkeleyAlso won in 1939
HumanitiesIntellectual HistoryErnest Campbell MossnerSyracuse UniversityDavid HumeAlso won in 1945
HumanitiesLinguisticsZellig Sabbettai HarrisUniversity of Pennsylvania
HumanitiesLinguisticsAllen Walker ReadUniversity of ChicagoDictionary of "Briticisms"Also won in 1938
HumanitiesLinguisticsHarold WhitehallUniversity of Wisconsin
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismHerbert Joseph MullerPurdue University
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismEdmund WilsonWritingAlso won in 1935
HumanitiesMedieval HistoryUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonHistory of the relations of the Papacy and learning in the later Middle AgesAlso won in 1955
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureCharles W. JonesCornell UniversityHistory of physical sciences in the early Middle AgesAlso won in 1945
HumanitiesMusic 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
HumanitiesPhilosophyUniversity of WashingtonMetaphysical foundations of formal logic; construction of a system of intensional logic and the application thereof to the problems of logic and logistic
HumanitiesPhilosophyEliseo VivasUniversity of Wisconsin
HumanitiesRenaissance HistoryNew York UniversityHistories and historical interpretations of the Renaissance written from the 15th century to the present
HumanitiesUnited 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
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryHoward WolfCleveland NewsHistory of American news servicesAlso won in 1940
Natural SciencesAstronomy-AstrophysicsLouis George HenyeyUniversity of ChicagoTheory of the formation of stellar absorption lines
Natural SciencesBiochemistryIsidore GershJohns Hopkins Medical SchoolIntracellular distribution of certain organic compounds
Natural SciencesBiologyGregory PincusClark UniversityDevelopmental physiology of mammalian eggs and embryosAlso won in 1940
Natural SciencesChemistryRose C. SlaterNewcomb College, Tulane UniversityStructure of crystals by methods of x-ray analysis
Natural SciencesChemistryHarold R. SnyderUniversity of IllinoisConfiguration of nitrogen in organic compoundsFellowship postponed until 1951
Natural SciencesChemistryMelville Lawrence WolfromOhio State UniversityGeneral methods of investigating the organic structure of the natural products as carried on in several European laboratories
Natural SciencesEarth ScienceMaurice EwingLehigh UniversityDeep-sea investigations by gravitational and seismic methodsAlso won in 1938, 1953
Natural SciencesEarth ScienceEarl 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
Natural SciencesEarth ScienceChester StockCalifornia Institute of TechnologyVertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of MexicoAlso won in 1940
Natural SciencesMathematicsOscar ZariskiJohns Hopkins UniversityTheory of algebraic varieties from the standpoint of modern algebra
Natural SciencesMolecular 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
Natural SciencesMolecular and Cellular BiologyLeland S. McClungUniversity of CaliforniaCertain disease-producing and food-spoiling bacteria
Natural SciencesMolecular and Cellular BiologyEmil L. SmithColumbia UniversityKinetics and mechanism of photosynthesisAlso won in 1938
Natural SciencesOrganismic Biology and EcologyAdriaan Joseph van RossemCalifornia Institute of TechnologyEuropean ornithological collections with a view to establishing a permanent nomenclature for American birds
Natural SciencesPhysicsHubert Maxwell JamesPurdue UniversityApplication of wave mechanics to the computation of intensities in band spectra
Natural SciencesPlant ScienceLawrence Rogers BlinksStanford UniversityRelations of metabolism to the bio-electric properties of large plant cellsAlso won in 1948, 1957
Natural SciencesPlant ScienceEarl Martin HildebrandCornell UniversityTransmission of fruit plant diseases
Natural SciencesPlant ScienceHilda F. RoseneUniversity of TexasForces and structures involved in the absorption and transport of water by plants
Social SciencesEconomicsKarl Richard BoppUniversity of Missouri
Social SciencesEconomicsMary Barnett GilsonUniversity of Chicago
Social SciencesEconomicsElmer WoodUniversity of MissouriPolicy of the Bank of England, 1847-1873
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceKarl LoewensteinAmherst CollegeResearch in South America
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceWalter Rice SharpUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonFunctional study of the administrative process at the international level
Social SciencesPsychologyRobert 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