Sixty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1937.[1][2]
1937 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
editCategory | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Robert Ardrey | University of Chicago | Playwriting | [3][4][5] | |
Robert Turney | Also won in 1936 | [6] | ||||
Fiction | Frederic Prokosch | Writing | [7][4] | |||
Fine Arts | Ahron Ben-Shmuel | Sculpture | Also won in 1938 | [8] | ||
Aaron Bohrod | Painting | Also won in 1936 | [9][10][5] | |||
Jon Corbino | Also won in 1936 | [11] | ||||
Lu Duble | Bennett School | Sculpture | Also won in 1938 | [12][13] | ||
William Gropper | Drawing | [14][10][5] | ||||
George Grosz | Painting | Also won in 1938 | [15][5] | |||
Josette Hébert-Coëffin | Also won in 1939 | [citation needed] | ||||
Joe Jones | Painting: Conditions of the Dust Bowl | [2][5] | ||||
Rico Lebrun | Art Students League | Also won in 1935, 1962 | [16][17] | |||
Music Composition | Ross Lee Finney | Smith College | Composition | Also won in 1947 | [18][19][5] | |
Dante Fiorillo | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1938 | [20] | ||||
Robert Guyn McBride | Bennington College | [18][19][5] | ||||
Photography | Edward Weston | Photographic satire in the West | Also won in 1938 | [21][22][5][23] | ||
Poetry | Sterling Allen Brown | Howard University | Long narrative poem | [24][4][25][5] | ||
Harold Lewis Cook | Writing | [26][4] | ||||
Sonia Raiziss Giop | Girls' High School | [15][24][4][10] | ||||
Jesse Hilton Stuart | Greenup County High School | [24][5][23] | ||||
Theatre Arts | Stewart Chaney | Research in Europe | [27] | |||
Mordecai Gorelik | Influence of scientific techniques upon methods of stage design | Also won in 1935 | [10] | |||
Humanities | British History | Holden Furber | Consolidation of British power in India | [19][5] | ||
Classics | Charles Farwell Edson, Jr. | Historical geography and epigraphy of ancient Macedonia | Also won in 1936, 1956 | [28] | ||
Ernst Levy | University of Washington (visiting) | Development of Roman law in the western part of the empire during its decline | [29][10][23] | |||
English Literature | Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford | University of Texas | Also won in 1929, 1957 | [30] | ||
Fine Arts Research | Lucy Driscoll | University of Chicago | Chinese art | [3][5] | ||
Kaj Klitgaard | Through the American Landscape (published 1941) | [31] | ||||
Carl Schuster | Also won in 1938 | [4][23] | ||||
General Nonfiction | Zora Neale Hurston | Practice of obeah | Also won in 1936 | [32] | ||
Max Norton | History of Socialist-Communist, Liberal-Democratic, Nationalist-Patriotic, and reactionary movements during the last 150 years | [2][33] | ||||
Donald Culross Peattie | Robert Owen's New Harmony experiment | Also won in 1936 | [4][34] | |||
Literary Criticism | Richard Palmer Blackmur | Henry Adams | Also won in 1938 | [19][5] | ||
Medieval History | John Life La Monte | University of Cincinnati | Biographical and genealogical catalogue of the Crusader states | [35][5] | ||
Medieval Literature | Dorothy Bethurum | Lawrence College | Old and early Middle English homilies | [36][5] | ||
Anselm Strittmatter | Saint Anselm's Priory | History of Christian life and thought | Also won in 1932 | [25][5] | ||
Near Eastern Studies | Samuel Noah Kramer | University of Chicago | History of Sumerian culture from 2000 BC | Also won in 1938, 1961 | [3][10][5] | |
Philosophy | Paul Weiss | Bryn Mawr College | Foundations of ethics in the light of modern logic and metaphysics | [10][5] | ||
Donald Cary Williams | University of California | Analysis and theory of knowledge | [21][5][23] | |||
United States History | Edward Deming Andrews | History on the religious arts of the Shakers | [19][5] | |||
Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ronold W. P. King | Lafayette College | Research in Germany | Also won in 1957 | [37] |
Astronomy and Astrophysics | Willem Jacob Luyten | University of Minnesota | Stars in the southern hemisphere | Also won in 1928, 1929 | [38][19][2] | |
Chemistry | Lawrence Olin Brockway | California Institute of Technology | Molecular studies of certain heavy metal carbonyls | [21][39][5][23] | ||
Earth Science | Charles Henry Behre, Jr | Northwestern University | Comparative study of zinc-lead deposits | [40][5] | ||
Aaron Clement Waters | Stanford University | Comparative study of metamorphic rock | [21][41][23] | |||
Medicine and Health | Allan Lyle Grafflin | Harvard University | Functional and cytological studies of the mammalian and human kidney | Also won in 1934 | [19][5] | |
Samuel Robert Means Reynolds | Long Island College of Medicine | Nature of the motility-stimulating action of Oestrin upon uterine muscles | [15] | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eric Glendinning Ball | Johns Hopkins University | Mechanism of biological oxidations | Also won in 1958 | [42][5] | |
William Clouser Boyd | Boston University | Blood groups among people in southwestern Asia | Also won in 1935, 1961 | [19][43][5] | ||
Florence Barbara Seibert | Henry Phipps Institute | Research with Theodor Svedberg | [44][45] | |||
Herbert Shapiro | Princeton University | Nerve activity at low oxygen pressures | [10] | |||
James Batcheller Sumner | Cornell University | Research with Theodor Svedberg | [46] | |||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sydney William Britton | University of Virginia | Comparative study of tropical animals with those native to Virginia | [47] | ||
George Whitfield Deluz Hamlett | United States Biological Survey | Embryology and reproductive cycles of various mammals | Also won in 1936 | [48][5] | ||
William Louis Straus, Jr | Johns Hopkins University | Embryological development of muscle function | [10][5] | |||
Physics | Hans Mueller | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Structure and properties of liquids | [19][5] | ||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Melville J. Herskovits | Northwestern University | Primitive economics | [10][49][5] | |
Economics | Frank Whitson Fetter | Theories of money, banking, and international finance in England, 1800-1870 | [2][50][33] | |||
Earl Jefferson Hamilton | Duke University | 17th-century managed currency experiment of John Law | [2][51][52][33] | |||
Political Science | Ralph Droz Casey | University of Minnesota | Political party propaganda campaigns | [19][53][23] | ||
Harwood Lawrence Childs | Princeton University | Historical study of labor and capital in German politics | Also won in 1946 | [53] | ||
Psychology | Donald Keith Adams | Duke University | Formulation of a theory of the changes in the structure of the mind that constitute mental development | [52] |
1937 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
editCategory | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Andrés Henestrosa | National University of Mexico | Significance of Zapotecan culture | Also won in 1936 | [54] |
Natural Science | Mathematics | Carlos Graef Fernández | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Also won in 1938, 1939 | [55] | |
Medicine and Health | Joaquín Luco Valenzuela | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Physiology, especially the action of certain drugs on smooth muscle | Also won in 1938, 1957, 1968 | [56][55] | |
Alberto Marsal | National University of Córdoba | Also won in 1938 | [55] | |||
Enrique Savino | National Department of Hygiene (Argentina) | Also won in 1935, 1936 | [55] | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Conrado Federico Asenjo | University of Puerto Rico | Systematic study of the chemical composition and active principles of the medicinal and poisonous plants of the West Indies | Also won in 1938, 1954 | [57] | |
Santos Soriano | University of Buenos Aires | Microbiological studies in artificial production of bacterial variations | [58] | |||
Physics | Alfredo Baños, Jr. | National University of Mexico | Physical nature of dielectric constant and of the conductivity of dielectrics | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1957 | [59][55] | |
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Carlos García Robiou | University of Havana | Cuban prehistory | Also won in 1938 | [60][61] |
Law | Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado | National University of Mexico | Comparative study of the systems of forced labor in the Spanish and English colonies of North America | Also won in 1939 | [62][63] |
See also
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