List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931

Seventy-seven artists and scholars, including 13 women, received fellowships,^[1][2] which added up to $4,500,000 in $2,500 increments.^[3] Cuban fellows were elected for the first time.^[4]

1931 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Art	Drama and Performance Arts	Emjo Basshe				[1][5][3]
		Kate Clugston		Creative writing		[1][6][7]
	Fiction	Walter Stanley Campbell	University of Oklahoma	Biography of Sitting Bull	Pseudonym: Stanley Vestal. Also won in 1930.	[1][8][5]
		Maurice Hindus		Writing		[5][1][3][9]
		Katherine Anne Porter			Also won in 1938	[10]
	Fine Arts	Emil Bisttram		Mural painting		[1][11][12]
		Alexander Brook		Painting		[1][13]
		Harold Cash		Sculpture	Also won in 1930	[5][1]
		Harry Gottlieb		Painting		[1][14][3]
		Marsden Hartley		Painting		[5][1][15][12]
		Oronzio Maldarelli		Sculpture	Also won in 1943	[1]
		Reuben Nakian		Sculpture		[1][16]
		Joseph Pollet		Painting		[1]
		Ione Robinson		Painting		[5][1][17][12]
		Doris Rosenthal	Columbia Teachers College	Painting	Also won in 1936	[1][18][3][12]
		Alexander Raoul Stavenitz		Etching		[19][1]
	Music Composition	Otto Luening		Composing	Also won in 1931, 1974	[1][20]
	Poetry	Hart Crane		Writing		[21][5]
		John Crowe Ransom	Vanderbilt University			[22][23]
		Genevieve Taggard	Mt. Holyoke College			[24][1][25][5][17]
Humanities	American Literature	Harry Hayden Clark	University of Wisconsin	Industrial Revolution in the Yorkshire woolen and worsted industries		[1][26]
	Architecture, Planning and Design	Cecil Clair Briggs		Architectural restoration of the Acropolis of Athens		[5][1]
	Biography	Carleton Beals		Porfirio Diaz		[24][1][27][17][12]
	Economic History	Herbert Heaton	University of Minnesota	Volume 2: History of the woolen industry in England		[1][28][5][29]
		John Ewing Orchard	Columbia University	Transition occurring in China from agriculture and household industries to modern manufacturing		[1][30][31]
		George Ward Stocking	University of Texas	Mexican oil industry, the social control set up by the state, economic consequences of this program, and the future of the industry		[1][32][33][12]
	Education	William Edward Zeuch	Commonwealth College	Workers' education projects of Western Europe		[1][5]
	English Literature	Thomas Whitfield Baldwin	University of Illinois			[1][34][9]
		George Bruner Parks	Washington University in St. Louis	Influence of English voyages from 1600 to 1660 on science and imaginative literature		[19][1]
		George William Williamson	University of Oregon	Metaphysical element in English literature of the first half of the 17th century		[24][1][17]
	Fine Arts Research	Anita Brenner		Pre-Spanish art in the southern countries of the North American continent	Also won in 1930	[1][3][12]
		Francis Henry Taylor	Pennsylvania Museum of Art	Romanesque sculpture of the Roussillon, with special reference to the sculpture from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines and the origins of the style of the 11th century		[1][35]
		Ernest Theodore DeWald	Princeton University	Stuttgart Psalter	Also won in 1927	[1]
	French Literature	Salomon Alhadef Rhodes	City College of New York	French romantic poetry		[1]
	Iberian and Latin American History	Lesley Byrd Simpson (de)	University of California	Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain	Also won in 1939	[1][36][24][17][12]
	Literary Criticism	John Van Horne	University of Illinois	Bernardo de Balbuena	Also won in 1929	[31][1][12]
	Medieval Literature	Erika von Erhardt-Siebold	Mt. Holyoke College	Edition of the Latin Anglo-Saxon riddles		[1]
		Jacob Hammer	Hunter College	Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain	Also won in 1929, 1938	[37][1][38]
		Leslie W. Jones	City College of New York	Script of Tours	Also won in 1929	[1][39]
		Clark Harris Slover	University of Texas	Channels which were available for the transmission of literature and tradition from Ireland to Great Britain before the Arthurian Romances	Also won in 1925	[40][1]
	Music Research	Henry Dixon Cowell	New Music Quarterly	Materials used in extra-European musical systems		[1][20][24][5][17]
		Roy Dickinson Welch	Smith College	History of music	Also won in 1930	[1]
	Philosophy	Helen Huss Parkhurst	Barnard College	Architecture of Continental cathedrals and Oriental mosques		[41][1]
	Religion	Harvie Branscomb	Duke University	Comparative study of Jewish and Christian ethics in the 1st and 2nd centuries		[1][9]
	Russian History	William Henry Chamberlin	Christian Science Monitor	History of the Russian Revolution from the downfall of Tsarism to the adoption of the New Economic Policy	Also won in 1934	[42]
	United States History	Reginald C. McGrane	University of Cincinnati	British investment in the United States, 1830-1860	Also won in 1930	[1][43]
Natural Science	Applied Mathematics	Gustav C. Dahl	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	European practices in electric power transmission		[1]
		Lydik S. Jacobsen	Stanford University	Earthquake-resistant flexible building materials		[24][1][44]
	Chemistry	Ermon Dwight Eastman	University of California	Structure and properties of atomic nuclei		[24][1][45][17]
		George Sutton Parks	Stanford University	Thermal chemistry of organic compounds		[24][1][17]
		Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr.	University of Illinois		Also won in 1930	[1]
		George Scatchard	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Theories of liquid solution		[1][46]
	Earth Science	Walter Scott Adkins	University of Texas			[1][32]
	Geography and Environmental Studies	Carl O. Sauer	University of California	Effects of Spanish colonization on native Indian land systems and population groupings		[24][1][47][17][12]
	Medicine and Health	Edward Lee Howes	Yale University		Also won in 1930	[1]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Arthur H. Steinhaus	Central YMCA College	Physiology of exercise		[1][48]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Hilario Atanacio Roxas	University of the Philippines			[1]
		Samuel Brody	University of Missouri	Chemistry of growth in certain domestic animals	Also won in 1929	[1][3]
		Mary Stuart MacDougall	Agnes Scott College	Effects of ultraviolet radiation upon protozoa		[1][9]
		Horace Wesley Stunkard (de)(fr)	New York University	Life history of certain parasitic worms		[1][49][50]
	Physics	Jerome Boley Green	Ohio State University	Effect of magnetic fields on the emission of spectrum lines		[1][43]
		Jens Rud Nielsen	California Institute of Technology	Raman spectra and molecular structure		[1][51][17]
		Henry DeWolf Smyth	Princeton University			[1]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Ruth L. Bunzel	Columbia University	Indian backgrounds of the Mexican Nation	Also won in 1930	[1][12]
		Lila Morris O'Neale	University of California	Inca and pre-Inca textile collections in Peru		[24][1][17][12]
	Economics	Dorothy Johnson Orchard		Social movements accompanying the industrialization of China, including an analysis of the labor supply of China, the labor movement, and use of boycotting as an economic and political weapon		[31][1]
	Sociology	Joseph Fulling Fishman	New York City Department of Correction	Conditions in jails in the United States		[5][1][3]

1931 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Humanities	Economic History	Jorge Roa y Reyes	University of Havana	Economic relationship between the United States and the Latin American Republics		[4]
	Iberian and Latin American History	Vera Lee Brown	Smith College	Relations of England and Spain as colonial powers in the 18th century		[1][12]
		Herminio Portell Vilá	University of Havana	Historical relationship between Cuba and the United States, with particular attention to the question of annexation	Also won in 1932, 1933	[4]
	Music Research	Augusto Novaro (it)		Musical theory		[52][12]
	Philosophy	Homero Mario Guglielmini	National University of the Littoral	Principal currents of philosophy in the United States		[53][12]
Natural Science	Earth Science	Tomás Barrera y Arenas	National University of Mexico	Metallurgy, with special reference to non-metallic metals and the methods and technique of geophysical exploration		[52][12]
	Mathematics	Genaro Moreno García-Conde	Academia de Guerra School of Military Engineering	Mathematical research, especially in the theory of functions of real variables		[12]
	Medicine and Health	Eduardo Bunster Montero	University of Chile	Physiology of the ovary and of certain glands of internal secretion		[12]
		Guillermo Montaño Islas	Ministry of Education (Mexico)	Rural sociology and economics; rural hygiene and public health		[52][12]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Salomón Horovitz	University of Buenos Aires	Cytology and genetics		[12][3]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Carlos Guillermo Aguayo y Castro	University of Havana	Taxonomic studies in the fields of malacology and entomology		[4]
	Plant Sciences	Manuel Elgueta Guérin	Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura	Application of genetics to the improvement of plants	Also won in 1932	[12]
Social Science	Economics	Carlos García Mata	Department of Finance and Public Works, Province of Santa Fe	Methods of predicting economic phenomena		[54][12]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1930
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1932

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