List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1944

Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1944, including thirteen women, the highest number of female recipients ever.[1][2][3]

1944 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Choreography Martha Graham Modern dances Also won in 1932, 1943 [4][5][2]
Fiction Marie Campbell West Georgia College Stories based on mountain folklore Also won in 1955 [6][5][2]
Israel James Kapstein [7]
J. Saunders Redding Elizabeth City State College Also won in 1959 [8][2]
Fine Arts Donald Harcourt De Lue Sculpture Also won in 1943 [9][2]
Carl L. Schmitz [de; fr] [2]
Reynold H. Weidenaar Etching [10][2]
Ellis Wilson Painting Also won in 1945 [2]
Music Composition Theodore Ward Chanler Music composition Also won in 1956 [7][11][12][2]
Norman Dello Joio Also won in 1945 [12][2][13]
Gail T. Kubik Also won in 1965 [12][2][14]
Normand Lockwood Also won in 1943 [2]
Harry Partch Also won in 1943, 1950 [15][2]
Poetry Howard Baker University of California Verse drama of early California [16]
Asher Brynes Police principles and the problem of peace Also won in 1938, 1939 [17][2]
Karl Jay Shapiro Also won in 1953 [18][2]
Humanities American Literature Charles Warren Everett [2]
Leon Howard Northwestern University [19][2]
Harry T. Levin Harvard University Technique of symbolism in American fiction, with particular reference to Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry James Also won in 1943 [7][11]
Madeleine B. Stern Long Island City High School Biography of Louisa May Alcott Also won in 1943 [20][5][2]
Hugh Mason Wade [fr] Also won in 1943 [7][2]
Architecture, Planning and Design Chloethiel Woodard Smith University of San Andres City planning [5][2]
Biography Henrietta Buckmaster Period 1830-1865 New England, woven around the life of William Lloyd Garrison and covering the development of the anti-slavery movement [5][2]
British History William Huse Dunham, Jr. Also won in 1945 [7][2]
English Literature Arthur E. Barker [2]
Gerald E. Bentley [2]
Donald Lemen Clark Columbia University John Milton at St. John's School (published 1948) Also won in 1957 [21][2]
Lucy Poate Stebbins English women novelists of the 19th century to determine relationship between material and social environment and character of work [11][7][2]
Carl Jefferson Weber [7][2]
Film, Video and Radio Studies Siegfried Kracauer Social, political, and artistic situation in postwar Germany Also won in 1943, 1945 [22][2]
Fine Arts Research Jean Charlot Also won in 1946 [2]
Robert J. Goldwater [2]
Elizabeth Wilder Weismann Library of Congress Sculpture of the Mexican colonial period Also won in 1945 [5][2]
Folklore and Popular Culture Bertrand Harris Bronson University of California Musical literary companion to Francis James Child's English and Scottish popular ballads Also won in 1943, 1948 [16][2]
French History George P. Cuttino Also won in 1952 [2]
General Nonfiction Carey McWilliams Functioning of organized religions as social institutions in the United States Also won in 1941 [16][2]
Linguistics Hans Kurath [7][2]
Literary Criticism Morton Dauwen Zabel Loyola University Chicago Life of Joseph Conrad Also won in 1962 [2]
Medieval Literature Sylvia L. Thrupp Social structure and ethical teaching of the Middle Ages [23][5]
Music Research Robert Shaw Berkshire Music Center; Collegiate Chorale Musical theory and the techniques of instrumental and choral conducting, and preparation of a book on the development of symphonic choruses [24][16][2]
Philosophy Abraham Edel City College of New York [25][2]
Marvin Farber [2]
Renaissance History Josephine Waters Bennett Hunter College Cultural development of England, from Chaucer to Moore Also won in 1955 [5][2]
Spanish and Portuguese Literature Joaquín Casalduero Also won in 1954 [7][11][2]
United States History Adrienne Koch Office of Economic Warfare Beginnings of Republican government, viewed through the social and political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe Also won in 1945 [5][2]
Henry Fowles Pringle History of World War II from standpoints of both the home and military fronts Also won in 1945 [2]
Natural Sciences Chemistry Melvin Calvin University of California, Berkeley New methods of synthesis in organic chemistry [1][2][16]
Earth Science Ruben Arthur Stirton [de] University of California Search of fossil vertebraes in South America to obtain evidence on dates and position of prehistoric water barriers between American continents [16][2]
Mathematics André Weil Algebraic geometry Also won in 1952 [2]
Molecular and Cellular Biology James Angus Jenkins University of California, Berkeley Varietal differences in cultivated tomatoes Also won in 1952 [1][2][16]
Frank Harris Johnson Also won in 1945, 1950 [2]
Valy Menkin Free Hospital for Women Chemical basis of inflammation in wounds [7][11][2]
Cornelis Bernardus van Niel Also won in 1954 [16][2][26]
Janet McCarter Woolley University of Wisconsin Action of tuberculin [2]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Kenneth W. Cooper Princeton University Research at the California Institute of Technology Also won in 1945 [27]
Tilly Edinger Harvard University Development of teeth in the evolutionary line leading from ancestral fish to mammals Also won in 1943 [7][11][5][1][2]
Joseph Hickey University of Chicago Records of banded birds to benefit conservation efforts Also won in 1947 [1][2]
Johannes F. Holtfreter McGill University Causal factors involved in the embryonic development of vertebrates Also won in 1945 [1][2]
Plant Science Emma Lucy Braun University of Cincinnati Ecology and taxonomy of the deciduous forest Also won in 1943 [5][2]
George Neville Jones [2]
Bassett Maguire [2]
Aaron John Sharp University of Tennessee Phytogeographical relationship between the highlands of Mexico and the Southern Appalachian Mountains Also won in 1945 [28][2]
William N. Takahashi Cornell University (visiting) Mechanism of virus reproduction [29][16][2]
Paul Weatherwax Indiana University Origins of corn [1][2][30]
Social Science Economics Harold Amos Logan University of Toronto [31][2]
Political Science Walter Bernhard Schiffer Institute for Advanced Study Conflicting theoretical ideas underlying establishment and activity of the League of Nations Also won in 1946 [2]
Psychology Hudson Hoagland Smith College Form and meaning in Cervantes' Don Quixote and Persiles [7][11][2]
Theodore Christian Schneirla Also won in 1945 [2]
Sociology Robert England Demobilization problems in Allied Nations and Germany [2]

1944 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Fine Arts Lily Garafulic University of Chile [32][33]
Mauricio Lasansky Work at Atelier 17 Also won in 1943, 1945, 1953, 1964 [34][33]
Humanities Philosophy Euryalo Cannabrava [pt; es] Colégio Pedro II Also won in 1945 [33]
Jorge Millas [es] University of Chile [33]
United States History Raúl Roa y García University of Havana [33]
Natural Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Guido Munch Paniagua National Astronomical Observatory Theoretical astrophysics Also won in 1945, 1958 [35][33]
Chemistry Rafael Aureliano Labriola University of Buenos Aires Research at the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin [33][35]
Mathematics Alberto Barajas Celis [es] National Autonomous University of Mexico Research at Harvard University [35][33]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Eduardo Caballero y Caballero National Autonomous University of Mexico [35][33]
Manuel Maldonado Koerdell Autonomous University of Nuevo León Comparative anatomy Also won in 1945 [35][33]
Plant Sciences Elisa Hirschhorn Plant disease fungi Also won in 1945 [35][33]
Social Sciences Economics Adolfo Dorfman Also won in 1943 [36][33]
Law Enrique Testa Arueste University of Chile [33]

See also

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