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Eighty eight American scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1929. Twenty-six of the grants were renewals and $180,000 was disbursed.[1][2][3]

1929 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Paul Green University of North Carolina European theater and creative dramatic work Also won in 1928 [4][3][5]
Fiction Eric Derwent Walrond Writing Also won in 1928 [6][3][7]
Fine Arts Mordi Gassner Painting Also won in 1930 [8][9]
J. Barry Greene [10]
John Theodore Johnson [11]
Sidney Loeb Sculpture Also won in 1930 [12]
E. Bruce Moore University of Wichita Also won in 1930 [13]
Archibald John Motley, Jr. Painting Also won in 1930 [3][7][14]
Jacob Getlar Smith [15]
Music Composition Robert Russell Bennett Composing Also won in 1929 [16][5]
Robert Mills Delaney [16][17]
Quinto Maganini Composition of an epic symphony for grand orchestra on the life and era of Napoleon I, a second sonata for violin and piano, and work on an opera based on Bret Harte's The Bellringer of Angels Also won in 1928 [5][18]
Quincy Porter Composing [16][5]
Randall Thompson Wellesley College Also won in 1930 [16][5][19]
Poetry Léonie Adams Writing; translation of lyrics by François Villon Also won in 1928 [20][21]
Allen Tate Writing Also won in 1928 [22][23][24]
Theatre Arts Remo Bufano Marionette Theatre Volume on marionettes [25][24]
James Light Provincetown Players New tendencies in the production and staging of plays [26][24][5]
Humanities Architecture Kenneth John Conant Harvard University Restoration drawings of Cluny Abbey, the Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours, and the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, all Romanesque French churches Also won in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1954 [27][28][19]
British History Dorothy Stimson Goucher College Relation of ecclesiasticism in England to the early scientific thought of the 17th and early 18th centuries [29]
Judith Blow Williams Wellesley College Efforts in England to open markets for the products of the Industrial Revolution Also won in 1927 [5][19]
Classics Marion Elizabeth Blake Mt. Holyoke College Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy Also won in 1927, 1953 [19]
Prentice Duell Bryn Mawr College Etruscan painting of the 5th century B.C.; production of archaeologically accurate copies in color of the wall paintings in the most preserved tombs of the period [30]
English Literature Louis I. Bredvold University of Michigan Intellectual biography of John Dryden, his relation to the new science, religious controversies, political currents, and in general to 17th-century thought [31]
Ford Keeler Brown St. John's College, Annapolis Ideas and life of Hannah More as an unusual representative of conservative English thought from 1780 to 1830 Also won in 1927, 1930 [32]
John Leslie Hotson New York University Systematic searches for new material for writing the lives of Elizabethan poets and dramatists Also won in 1930 [33][34]
Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford University of Texas, Austin Unpublished juvenile manuscripts of Charlotte Bronte Also won in 1937, 1957 [35][36]
Alwin Thaler University of Tennessee Preparation of a book on the Strolling players [24]
Lois Whitney Vassar College Interrelations of the partly conflicting, partly converging ideas of progress and primitivism, especially as they are illustrated by English literature of the 18th century [37]
Edwin Eliott Willoughby Newberry Library Typographical problems in the First Folio of Shakespeare based upon a comparative analysis of the books issued from the Jaggard press [38][39]
Louis Booker Wright University of North Carolina Reflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642 Also won in 1928 [40]
French George Remington Havens Ohio State University Catalogue of Voltaire's library [41][7]
Raphael Levy University of Wisconsin Copy and publication of material of value for Old French lexicography contained in seven unpublished French manuscripts written in Hebrew [41][42]
General Nonfiction Felix M. Morley League of Nations Also won in 1928 [43]
German and Eastern European History Lawrence D. Steefel University of Minnesota First year of Otto von Bismarck's ministry in its international setting [44][5]
German and Scandinavian Literature Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur University of California History of Germanic heroic poetry; origins and developments of the heroic lay, its local variations in England, in Scandinavia, and on the continent, and the determination of its relations to political and social conditions, to religion and to folklore [17]
German Literature Margaret Schlauch New York University Icelandic sagas [45]
Harry Slochower City College of New York Infiltration of Schopenhauer's pessimism into German literature [41]
Literary Criticism John Van Horne University of Illinois Relations between the Italian and Spanish art epics of the Renaissance Also won in 1931 [41]
Medieval History Harold Lamb Causes and aftermath of the First Crusade in Syria [24]
Henry S. Lucas University of Washington Political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Low Countries, especially Flanders, from about 1280 to 1360 [5]
Sidney Raymond Packard Smith College Work on a volume of Norman Institutions in Transition, 1189-1226 [19]
Medieval Literature Blanche Beatrice Boyer Mt. Holyoke College Latin manuscripts written in minuscule of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon script Also won in 1930 [19]
Jacob Hammer Hunter College Manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth's history of the British kings Also won in 1931, 1938 [46]
Leslie W. Jones Oberlin College Certain manuscripts belonging to the School of Tours and to related schools to establish criteria for identifying and dating manuscripts written at Tours and to trace their influence upon the work of other scriptoria Also won in 1931 [7]
Roland Mitchell Smith Wesleyan University Historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland, with special reference to Celtic parallels in the Welsh laws and historical works and the relationships and intercourse of the early Irish and Welsh and Northumbrian peoples of the Island of Britain Also won in 1928 [47]
Philosophy Brand Blanshard Swarthmore College Completion of his book The Place of Intelligence in Human Nature [30][5]
William Ray Dennes University of California An aspect of Aristotle's doctrine of substance and of the status of the concept in recent metaphysics and philosophy of nature [17][5]
Sidney Hook New York University New point of view of the post-Hegelian philosophy in Germany (1831–1850); an interpretation of the break-up of the Hegelian school in terms of the political, social and cultural movements current during the time; and preparation of a philosophic history of the period from Hegel to Marx, with emphasis on the social and political forces which controlled the evolution of ideas Also won in 1928, 1953 [48][49]
Gail Kennedy Amherst College Origin and development of pragmatic philosophies [5][19]
Religion Robert Pierce Casey (de) University of Cincinnati Early Christian history, specifically studies of Ethenasius Also won in 1928 [7]
Silva Tipple New Textual criticism of the New Testament and the discrimination of the textual families in Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts of the New Testament Also won in 1930 [19][50]
Spanish and Portuguese Literature Frederick Courtney Tarr (de) Princeton University Origin and development of the Articulos de costumbre Also won in 1930 [41]
United States History Merle Eugene Curti Smith College Interrelations between America and European pacifism during the period from 1860 to 1914 [19]
James Emmanuel Ernst University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Life of Roger Williams and a study of the English background of his New England contemporaries [51]
Alfred Barnaby Thomas University of Oklahoma Study of the development of the frontiers of New Mexico under the rule of Teodoro de Croix [52][53]
Arthur Preston Whitaker (fr) Western Reserve University Relations between Spain and the United States in the Old Southwest, 1795-1821; preparation of a book of documents on the commerce of the Floridas and Louisiana under Spain, 1779-1821 Also won in 1949 [7][24]
Natural Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Dinsmore Alter University of Kansas Long-range weather prediction; application of statistical methods to meteorological and astronomical problems, with reference to the rainfall of the British Isles [54][5]
Willem Jacob Luyten Harvard University Photographs of the Southern Sky with the Bruce Telescope at the Harvard Observatory in Maselspoort, South Africa and comparison of these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1905 to obtain information concerning the number, velocities and intrinsic brightness of the stars in the neighborhood of the Sun Also won in 1928, 1937 [55][19][56]
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology David Morris Greenberg University of California Certain electrochemical properties of hemoglobin [17]
Chemistry Wendell Mitchell Latimer University of California Thermodynamic treatment of solutions, with a view to extending his work on the entropy of aqueous ions [17][5]
Edward Mack, Jr. Ohio State University Theoretical study of the structure and stability of simple organic molecules [7]
Melvin Lorrel Nichols Cornell University Anionic phenomena [57]
Axel Ragnar Olson University of California Material effects of high frequency electrical fields [17][5]
Earth Science Nelson Woodsworth Taylor University of Minnesota Factors governing deposition of ore minerals from hot aqueous solutions at high pressures [44]
Mathematics Olive C. Hazlett University of Illinois Arithmetics of linear associative algebras together with their application and interpretation in other lines of mathematics, especially the theory of numbers Also won in 1929 [58][59]
Charles Hugh Smiley University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Methods of determining orbits of comets and asteroids [60][61]
Gordon Thomas Whyburn University of Texas, Austin Set point theory, with particular emphasis on the structure of continua and of continuous curves [62][63]
Medicine and Health Warren Kidwell Stratman-Thomas University of Wisconsin Clinical trials of the therapeutic value of six new arsenical compounds in the chemotherapy of animal and human trypanosomiases Also won in 1929 [64][13][3][42][65]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Samuel Brody University of Missouri Growth evolution of domestic animals [66]
Eugene M. Landis Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Reactions affecting the minute blood vessels of mammals Also won in 1930 [67][30]
Physics Ora Stanley Duffendack University of Michigan Molecular phenomena and the excited state of molecules and atoms [31][68]
Roy James Kennedy (de) California Institute of Technology Theory of radiation in physics Also won in 1928 [17]
Robert Sanderson Mulliken University of Chicago Problems connected with the subject of the formation and dissociation of molecules and the assignment of quantum numbers for electrons in molecules Also won in 1932 [69][70]
John Clarke Slater Harvard University Quantum mechanics [71][19][72]
Louis Alexander Turner Princeton University Dissociation of molecules by light and by electron impact [73]
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck University of Wisconsin Quantum mechanics [42][74]
Plant Sciences Jonas J. Christensen University of Minnesota Genetics of the physiologic forms of certain pathogenic fungi to crop plants [44]
Carroll William Dodge Harvard University Completion of lichen flora in Costa Rica Also won in 1930 [3][19][75]
Social Sciences Education Thomas Woody University of Pennsylvania Political education of citizens of the Soviet Republic and its bearings on the relation of Russia to her neighbors [30]
Economics Lionel Danforth Edie University of Chicago Policy of the Bank of France with special reference to its relation to the international banking situation Also won in 1928 [76][5]
Political Science Harold Scott Quigley University of Minnesota Government of Japan [44][5]

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