Eighty-five Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1930, amounting to $200,000.[1][2][3] The Latin-American Exchange Fellowships were introduced this year and brought two fellows to the United States to study.[4][1]

1930 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Ellsworth Prouty Conkle University of Delaware Writing [3][5]
Fiction Walter Stanley Campbell University of Oklahoma Biography of Sitting Bull Also won in 1931 [3][5][6]
Jonathan Worth Daniels Writing [3][5][7][6]
Helen Rose Hull Columbia University [5]
Nella Larsen Imes [8]
Jacques G. Le Clercq Columbia University [9]
Thomas Clayton Wolfe Washington Square College [7][6]
Fine Arts Pamela Bianco Painting [10][11]
Harold Cash Sculpture Also won in 1931 [6][12]
Mordi Gassner Mural painting Also won in 1929 [13][14]
Thomas Handforth Etching [15]
Arthur Lee Art Students League of New York Classic European sculpture [12][16]
Monty Lewis Painting [12]
Sidney Loeb Sculpture Also won in 1929 [17]
E. Bruce Moore University of Wichita Sculpture Also won in 1929 [5]
Archibald John Motley, Jr. Painting Also won in 1929 [18][19]
Francis R. White Gothic glassmaking [5][12]
Music Composition Carl Bricken Composing [20][21]
Ruth Porter Crawford [20][1]
Robert M. Delaney Also won in 1929 [5][22]
Otto Luening Also won in 1931, 1974 [5][20][1]
Quincy Porter Also won in 1929 [4]
Randall Thompson Wellesley College Also won in 1929 [4][20][21]
Mark Wessel Also won in 1932 [5][20][1]
Poetry Edward Davison Preparation for an epic poem [23]
H. Phelps Putnam Writing [4]
Humanities Architecture, Planning and Design 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 [24][25]
Bibliography Mary McRae McLucas John Day Company Methods past and present of producing printing in the outstanding presses of Central Europe and Great Britain; study of hand-printing and photographic composition; bibliography of books about books [26][6][27]
British History Viola Florence Barnes Mt. Holyoke College England's colonial policy, particularly in relation to Massachusetts [3][5][4][28]
Charles Harris Wesley Howard University Negro slavery apprenticeship in the British West Indies between 1807 and 1838 [5][6]
Classics Ben Edwin Perry University of Illinois Life of Aesop Also won in 1954 [5][29]
East Asian Studies Owen Lattimore Present conditions in Manchuria and Chinese Turkistan and their historical and geographical background Also won in 1932 [4][30]
Economics History Paul Schuster Taylor University of California Socio-economic aspects of the emigration of Mexicans to the United States [5][4]
English Literature Ford Keeler Brown St. John's College, Annapolis Social aspects and influence of the English Evangelicals, 1798-1830 Also won in 1927, 1930 [31][5]
Neilson Campbell Hannay Boston University Biography of William Cowper and known letters [4][32]
John Leslie Hotson New York University Systematic searches for new material for writing the lives of Elizabethan poets and dramatists Also won in 1929 [33][34]
Henry Donaldson Jordan Dartmouth College English newspaper press, 1853-1865 [4][35]
Eleanore Boswell University of London History of Restoration theatre [36]
Helen Constance White University of Wisconsin, Madison Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th-century England Also won in 1929 [37][5][1]
Fine Arts Research Anita Brenner Pre-Spanish America art in the southern countries of the North American continent, with special attention to Aztec art Also won in 1931 [12][4]
Thomas Temple Hoopes New York University History of firearms from their invention to the introduction of automatic manufacturing machinery [38]
Clarence Kennedy Smith College Study of Desiderio da Settignano [12][4]
Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy Monograph on Alesso Baldovinetti [12][4]
French Literature Henri Maurice Peyre Yale University Louis Ménard [4]
German and Eastern European History Brynjolf Jakob Hovde University of Pittsburgh Social and economic conditions in Scandinavia, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries [5][39]
Iberian and Latin American History John Tate Lanning Duke University Universities of the Hispanic colonies of the New World [7][4][6]
Literary Criticism Mary M. Colum Contemporary American and French ideas of criticism Also won in 1938 [4]
Joseph Wood Krutch The Nation Aesthetics [3][5][6]
Medieval Literature Blanche Beatrice Boyer Mt. Holyoke College Latin manuscripts written in minuscule of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon script Also won in 1929 [4]
Sister Mary Aquinas Devlin Rosary College Thomas Brunton's life, sermons, and influence [5][1]
Richard Ager Newhall Williams College Military and financial phases of the latter part of the Hundred Years' War [4][40]
Josiah Cox Russell New Mexico Normal University Biographical data of the manuscripts of certain Latin authors and 13th-century England [5][41]
John Webster Spargo Northwestern University Medieval legends about Virgil Also won in 1936 [5][1]
Medieval History Eugene Hugh Byrne University of Wisconsin Commercial custom and practice in the Middle Ages [5][1]
Music Research Roy Dickinson Welch Smith College Relation of musical art to general culture and social history Also won in 1931 [4][5][42]
Philosophy A. Cornelius Benjamin University of Illinois Logic and scientific methodology in England and France; preparation for a systematic treatise on The Logic of Science [5][1][43]
John Daniel Wild Harvard University Philosophical works of George Berkeley Also won in 1956 [4][44]
Religion 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 1929 [45][4]
Spanish and Portuguese Literature Hyman Chonon Berkowitz University of Wisconsin Benito Pérez Galdós and his contribution to Spanish life and letters [5][1][46]
Frederick Courtney Tarr (de) Princeton University Origin and development of the Articulos de costumbre Also won in 1929 [47][21]
United States History Reginald C. McGrane University of Cincinnati British investment in the United States, 1830-1860 Also won in 1931 [48][49]
Natural Sciences Chemistry Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr. University of Illinois Problems in the field of molecular rays Also won in 1931 [5][1][50]
Evald Laurids Skau Trinity College Purification of organic compounds [4]
Earth Science Ernest Raymond Lilley New York University Political and commercial policies regarding the development of mineral resources in the light of present knowledge of the character and extent of such resources [51][21]
Mathematics Harry Shultz Vandiver University of Texas, Austin Theory of algebraic numbers Also won in 1930 [52][6]
Medicine and Health Edward Lee Howes Yale University Problems of wound healing Also won in 1931 [4]
Eric Oldberg Peter Bent Brigham Hospital [4][53]
Molecular and Cellular Biology Theodore L. Althausen University of California Medical School Certain physiological disturbances and functional regeneration of the liver under various conditions of experimental and spontaneous injury [5][54]
Simon Freed University of California Magnetic and spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules in the crystalline state [5][55]
Arthur Grollman Johns Hopkins University Physical chemistry [5]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Eugene M. Landis University of Pennsylvania Hospital Reactions affecting the minute blood vessels of mammals Also won in 1929 [56]
Clarence Eugene Mickel University of Minnesota Life and habits of parasitical wasps [1]
Homer William Smith University of Virginia Physiological study of certain rare species of lung fishes which live in the waters of the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea Also won in 1930 [57][58]
Plant Science Carroll William Dodge Harvard University Completion of lichen flora in Costa Rica Also won in 1929 [4][59]
Thomas H. Goodspeed University of California Monographic treatment of the genus Nicotiana Also won in 1935, 1956 [5][60]
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Ruth L. Bunzel Barnard College Indian backgrounds of the Mexican nation Also won in 1931 [12][4]
Economics Paul Howard Douglas University of Chicago Movement of real wages in Europe, 1900-1930 [5][1][61]
Mordecai Ezekiel Bureau of Agricultural Economics Methods used by governmental agencies in leading European countries in regulating, directing and controlling economic activities [5]
Frank Hyneman Knight University of Chicago Movements in economic and social thought in relation to the British classical economics and the current development of institutional and statistical economics in America [5][1][62]
Katharine Snodgrass Stanford University Economics of food substitution, specifically the displacement of dairy fats by vegetable fats in Northern Europe [5][63]
Psychology John Paul Nafe Clark University Validity of the "quantitative" theory of sensory feelings [4][64]
Carroll C. Pratt Harvard University Expressive properties of musical structure by means of methods being developed by the Gestalt psychologists [4][65]
Political Science Nicholas John Spykman Yale University Asiatic nationalism viewed as a political expression of the cultural transformation due to the penetration of Euro-American culture into areas of different cultures [4][66]

1930 Latin-American Exchange Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Mathematics Alfonso Nápoles Gándara (ca) Escuela Nacional Preparatoria Differential geometry and harmonic analysis [4][1][67]
Medicine and Health Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns National University of Mexico Physiology and biochemistry [4][1]

See also

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