Sixty-three John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1927 to representatives of 22 states. $143,000 was disbursed.
1927 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Walter White National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Lynching in the United States Fine Arts John Wesley Carroll Art Students League of New York Painting Samuel Vance Chamberlain University of Michigan Etching and drypoint Avard Fairbanks University of Oregon Sculpture Glen Amos Mitchell Painting Also won in 1926 Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Also won in 1928 Dorothy Ochtman Painting Fine Arts Research Ernest Theodore DeWald Princeton University Publication of manuscripts of Stuttgart Psalter and a catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts at the library in Einsiedeln, Switzerland Also won in 1931 General Nonfiction Nathaniel Peffer New School for Social Research Effects of industrialism and nationalist on the Far East Also won in 1928 Music Composition Roy Harris Composition Also won in 1928, 1976 Carl McKinley Capital Theatre Also won in 1928 Bernard Rogers Also won in 1928 Roger Sessions Also won in 1926 Theodore J. Stearns Poetry Stephen Vincent Benét Long narrative poem about the American Civil War Also won in 1926 Humanities Architecture, Planning and Design Myron Bement Smith Italian brickwork of the Lombard period Also won in 1928 British History Frederick Charles Dietz University of Illinois, Urbana English government finance from 1558 to 1640 Judith Blow Williams Wellesley College Efforts, both of individuals and through concerted private and governmental action, to open markets for the products of the Industrial Revolution in England Also won in 1929 Classics Marion Elizabeth Blake Converse College Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy Also won in 1929, 1953 William Jerome Wilson State Normal School at Cheney The Shepherd of Hermas English Literature Ford Keeler Brown St. John's College, Annapolis Hannah More Also won in 1929, 1930 John William Draper University of Maine Bibliography of 18th century works on aesthetics and for origins of the "Graveyard School" of 18th century poetry in Great Britain Also won in 1928 John Andrew Rice, Jr. University of Nebraska Authorship of A Tale of a Tub Arthur Wellesley Secord University of Illinois Daniel Defoe Harold William Thompson New York State College for Teachers Biography Also won in 1925 French History E. Malcolm Carroll Duke University Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic Also won in 1928 Raphael Demos Harvard University Philosophy of evolution and social philosophy in France French Literature Fred G. Hoffherr Columbia University Preparation for the publication of the manuscript Victor Hugo's Journal d'Exil German and East European History Frank Dunstone Graham Princeton University Commercial and industrial consequences of the rapid depreciation of the German and Polish monetary units of the post-war period German and Scandinavian Literature Archer Taylor University of Chicago Methods used in folklore study for tracing the history of the popular ballad Also won in 1960 Iberian and Latin American History J. Fred Rippy Duke University Latin America in world affairs Intellectual and Cultural History Bernadotte Everly Schmitt University of Chicago Origins and responsibility for the World War Literary Criticism Odell Shepard Trinity College Preparation of a book Romantic Solitude and for research in the history of the romantic movement Music Research Nicholas G.J. Ballanta Musical conceptions of African peoples and comparison to older musical systems of Europe Also won in 1928 Near Eastern Studies Ephraim Avigdor Speiser University of Pennsylvania Also won in 1926 South Asian Studies Helen Moore Johnson Translation and commentary of Hemacandra's Loves of Sixty-three Famous Men United States History Frank Lawrence Owsley Vanderbilt University Certain phases of the relations of Europe and the Confederacy Richard Joseph Purcell Catholic University of America Irish immigration to the United States from 1790 to the time of the American Civil War George Malcolm Stephenson University of Minnesota History of Swedish immigration to the United States Natural Sciences Chemistry Wallace R. Brode Bureau of Standards Absorption spectra of aniline dyes Also won in 1926 George Ernest Gibson University of California, Berkeley Theory of band spectra Linus Pauling California Institute of Technology Also won in 1926, 1965 Lloyd Hilton Reyerson University of Minnesota Contact catalysis Also won in 1957 Mathematics Philip Franklin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Integral equations, orthogonal functions, and their relation to almost periodic functions Harry Shultz Vandiver University of Texas, Austin Fermat's Last Theorem and the laws of reciprocity in the theory of algebraic numbers Also won in 1930 Medicine and Health William Ruthrauff Amberson University of Pennsylvania Mechanisms involved in the electrical stimulation of nerve and music Molecular and Cellular Biology Edward Frederick Adolph University of Rochester Internal factors that control the size of organisms, particularly during growth Organismic Biology & Ecology Ralph Erskine Cleland Goucher College Chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose, as related to certain genetical problems Also won in 1928 Lewis Victor Heilbrunn University of Michigan Colloid chemistry of protoplasm Edwin Blake Payson University of Wyoming Taxonomy in relation to generic phylogenies Physics Carl Eckart California Institute of Technology New quantum theory William Vermillion Houston California Institute of Technology Recent developments in quantum mechanics as applied to the explanation of spectra Frank C. Hoyt University of Chicago Quantum theory and its meaning for radiation and atomic structure Victor F. Lenzen University of California, Berkeley Statistical mechanics Manuel Sandoval Vallarta Massachusetts Institute of Technology Connection between Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity Jay Walter Woodrow Iowa State College Phosphorescent, chemiluminescencent and photoelectric properties of cod liver oil and other substances which either have anti-rachitic characteristics or can be activated by treatment with ultra-violet light Plant Sciences Richard Bradfield University of Missouri Principles involved in the purification of colloids by electrodialysis Also won in 1928 William Henry Eyster University of Maine Physiology of the chloroplastid pigments Rodney Beecher Harvey University of Minnesota Low temperature effects on plants Also won in 1928 Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies James Penrose Harland University of Cincinnati Civilizations of the Bronze Age in and around Greece Also won in 1927 Economics Mollie Ray Carroll Goucher College Present-day system of unemployment insurance in Germany Political Science Bryn Mawr College Preparation of the book Municipal Government in the German Commonwealth Leonard Dupee White University of Chicago Trade unions and professional organizations in the public service of Great Britain Also won in 1928
See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1926 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1928
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