Fifty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1938.
1938 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Arthur Arent | Federal Theatre Project | Playwriting | ||
Fiction | August William Derleth | Writing | ||||
Clifford Shirley Dowdey | ||||||
Katherine Anne Porter | Also won in 1931 | |||||
Richard Wright | ||||||
Fine Arts | Ahron Ben-Shmuel | Sculpture | Also won in 1937 | |||
Janet de Coux | Also won in 1939 | |||||
Lu Duble | Also won in 1937 | |||||
David Fredenthal | Cranbrook Academy of Art | Painting | Also won in 1939 | |||
George Grosz | Sterne-Grosz art school | Also won in 1937 | ||||
Rosella Hartman | Also won in 1934 | |||||
Frank Mechau | Mural paintings of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco | Also won in 1934, 1935 | ||||
Music Composition | Paul Creston | St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church | Composition | Also won in 1939 | ||
David Diamond | ||||||
Dante Fiorillo [de] | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1937 | |||||
William Grant Still | Also won in 1934, 1935 | |||||
Photography | Edward Weston | Western United States | Also won in 1937 | |||
Poetry | Asher Brynes | Writing | Also won in 1939, 1944 | |||
Rolfe Humphries | Woodmere Academy | |||||
Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre | University of California, Los Angeles | |||||
Theatre Arts | Samuel Selden | University of North Carolina | Basic design in the directing of plays | |||
Humanities | American Literature | Joseph Leon Edel | Havas | Edition of Henry James' unpublished plays | Also won in 1936, 1965 | |
Architecture, Planning and Design | Lewis Mumford | Completion of a book on Form by the addition of material obtained firsthand in Europe | Also won in 1932, 1956 | |||
Classics | Faith Thompson | University of Minnesota | Constitutional history | |||
Virginia Randolph Grace | Dates and places of manufacture of earthware jars in the Mediterranean basin during the period of classical antiquity as the basis for a history of the commerce of the region during that period | Also won in 1953 | ||||
Fine Arts Research | Marvin Chauncey Ross | Walters Art Museum | Byzantine enamels | Also won in 1939, 1948, 1952 | ||
Carl Schuster | Pennsylvania Museum of Art | Chinese folk art | Also won in 1937 | |||
General Nonfiction | Josef Berger | Federal Writers' Project | Tall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England ports | Also won in 1946. Pseudonym: Digges, Jeremiah. | ||
German and East European History | O. Fritiof Ander | Augustana College | History of Sweden since 1815 | Also won in 1939 | ||
Literary Criticism | Richard Palmer Blackmur | Life and works of Henry Adams | Also won in 1937 | |||
Mary M. Colum | Ideas that have made modern literature | Also won in 1930 | ||||
Linguistics | Peter Alexis Boodberg | University of California, Berkeley | Reconstruction of archaic Chinese and studies of cultural interactions between China and Central Asia | Also won in 1955, 1963 | ||
Allen Walker Read | University of Chicago | Dictionary of "Briticisms" | Also won in 1939 | |||
Medieval Literature | Jacob Hammer | Hunter College | Definite text of Geoffrey of Monmouth's history of Britain | Also won in 1929, 1931 | ||
Frederick M. Salter | Northeast Experimental Junior College | Edition of the Chester Craft Plays and a monograph of its history | ||||
United States History | Foster Rhea Dulles | Recreational activities in America from the colonial period until modern times, with an interpretation of changing trends in popular use of leisure time | ||||
Walter Prescott Webb | University of Texas | Relationship between democratic government and an open frontier | Also won in 1954 | |||
Natural Science | Earth Science | Maurice Ewing | Lehigh University | Geophysical investigations of oceanic basins by gravitational and seismic methods | Also won in 1953, 1955 | |
Earl Hamlet Myers | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Life cycles of Foraminifera, with special reference to the role of these organisms in the sea and their significance in geological formations | Also won in 1939 | |||
Adolf Pabst | University of California, Berkeley | Orientation of minerals in granitic rock; silicate crystal structure | ||||
Mathematics | D. H. Lehmer | Lehigh University | Analytic theory of numbers, especially in connection with the arithmetical theory of elliptic modular functions | |||
Medicine and Health | Henry N. Harkins | Surgical and trauma shock, particularly as seen in burns | Also won in 1939, 1965 | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alfred George Marshak | New England Deaconess Hospital | Mechanism of chromosome division | Also won in 1939 | ||
Emil L. Smith | Columbia University | Chlorophyll-protein complex | Also won in 1939 | |||
Organismic Biology & Ecology | Myron Gordon | Analysis of the evolutionary process in the development of Mexican platyfish | Also won in 1940 | |||
Clyde E. Keeler | Harvard Medical School | Book on genetics in relation to medicine | ||||
Arthur Loveridge | Harvard University | Ecological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rainforest remnants in East Africa | Also won in 1933 | |||
Colin Campbell Sanborn | Field Museum | Taxonomic revision of six families of bats | ||||
Jack Henry Sandground | Harvard University Medical School | Comparative parasitology, chiefly in the Dutch East Indies | ||||
Physics | Tom Wilkerson Bonner | Rice Institute | Nuclear physics | |||
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit | University of Michigan | Recent developments of the theory of nuclear structure | ||||
Plant Science | Alden Springer Crafts | University of California, Davis | Anatomical and physiological study of plants | Also won in 1957 | ||
Philip Alexander Munz | Pomona College | Onagraceae in South America | ||||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Sherburne Friend Cook | University of California, Berkeley | Biological influence of the influx of Western European civilization on the indigenous population of Spanish America | Also won in 1947 | |
Alfred Métraux | University of California, Bishop Museum | Gran Chaco aboriginal population | Also won in 1940 | |||
Political Science | Lloyd K. Garrison | University of Wisconsin School of Law | British labor legislation | |||
Charles Rumford Walker | Influence of radical political movements in the U.S. since 1917 |
1938 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Leopoldo Méndez | ||||
Daniel Serra Badué | Also won in 1939 | |||||
Music Composition | Carlos Chávez | Composition | Also won in 1956 | |||
Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Carlos Graef Fernández | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Theory of probability and mathematical theory of statistics | Also won in 1937, 1939 | |
Medicine and Health | Joaquín Maass y Patiño | Juárez Hospital | Clinical studies in neurosurgery | |||
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 1937, 1954 | ||
Organismic Biology & Ecology | Pedro Martínez-Esteve | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba | Physiology of reproduction | |||
Plant Science | Carlos Muñoz Pizarro | Universidad de Chile | Systematic botany, with special relations to native Chilean forage plants | Also won in 1939 | ||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Carlos García Robiou | Universidad de La Habana | Cuban prehistory | Also won in 1937 |
See also
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1937
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939
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