List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939

Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1939.^[1][2]

1939 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fiction	Harold Augustus Sinclair		Writing		[3]
		Robert Penn Warren	Louisiana State University		Also won in 1947	[4]
		Richard Wright	Federal Writers Project			[5]
	Fine Arts	Janet de Coux		Sculpture	Also won in 1938	[6]
		Adolf Dehn		Painting	Also won in 1951	[7][8]
		David Fredenthal	Cranbrook Academy of Art		Also won in 1938	[9][8]
		Josette Hébert-Coëffin			Also won in 1937	[citation needed]
		John McCrady	Federal Art Project	Painting: Faith and lives of African Americans in the South		[10][8]
		Eugene Trentham		Painting		[11]
		Harry Wickey		Sculpture: Depictions of New York people	Also won in 1940	[12][13]
	Music Composition	Ernst Bacon	Converse College	Composition	Also won in 1942, 1964	[14]
		Paul Creston	St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church		Also won in 1938	[15]
		Anis Fuleihan	G. Shirmer, Inc.			[14]
		William Howard Schuman	Sarah Lawrence College		Also won 1940	[14][13]
	Poetry	Asher Brynes		Writing	Also won in 1938, 1944	[16][13][8]
		Kenneth Fearing			Also won in 1936	[13][8]
	Theatre Arts	William Smith Clark II	University of Cincinnati	History of the stage in Ireland		[17][8]
Humanities	American Literature	Charles John Olson	Harvard University	Critical history of the growth of Herman Melville through a study of his writing and reading	Also won in 1948	[2][8]
	Biography	Arthur McCandless Wilson	Dartmouth University		Also won in 1956	[18][8]
	Classics	Michael Ginsburg	University of Nebraska	Ancient Rome's New Deal	Also won in 1942	[19][8]
		Richard Mansfield Haywood	Johns Hopkins University	Cities of Roman Africa, their political and economic organization, and their relations with the surrounding country and with each other		[20][8]
	Fine Arts Research	Marvin Chauncey Ross	Walters Art Gallery	Corpus of all known Byzantine enamels, including a catalogue and an introduction giving the history and classification of Byzantine enamels	Also won in 1938, 1948, 1952	[21][8]
		Meyer Schapiro	Columbia University	Corpus of paintings, drawings, and ornament in manuscripts of southern France from the 10th to the end of the 12th century, with an analysis and interpretation of these works	Also won in 1942	[22][8]
		Carl Zigrosser	Weyhe Gallery		Also won in 1940	[23][8]
	French History	Leo Gershoy	Sarah Lawrence College	Enlightened despotism	Also won in 1936, 1946, 1959	[13][8]
	General Nonfiction	Herschel Brickell		History of Natchez, Mississippi		[24][13]
		John Dos Passos		Essays on American conceptions of freedom of thought	Also won in 1940, 1942	[25][13][8]
		John Joseph Mathews		Conflicting expressions of the American Indian and the invading European		[26][13][8]
	German and East European History	O. Fritiof Ander	Augustana College	History of Sweden since 1815	Also won in 1938	[27][8]
	Iberian and Latin American History	Lesley Byrd Simpson [de]	University of California, Berkeley		Also won in 1939	[28][8]
	Intellectual History	Ernest Campbell Mossner	Syracuse University	David Hume	Also won in 1945	[29][13][8]
	Linguistics	Zellig Sabbettai Harris	University of Pennsylvania			[30][8]
		Allen Walker Read	University of Chicago	Dictionary of "Briticisms"	Also won in 1938	[31][13][8]
		Harold Whitehall	University of Wisconsin			[32][8]
	Literary Criticism	Herbert Joseph Muller	Purdue University			[33][8]
		Edmund Wilson		Writing	Also won in 1935	[13][8]
	Medieval History	Gaines Post [fr]	University of Wisconsin, Madison	History of the relations of the Papacy and learning in the later Middle Ages	Also won in 1955	[34][8]
	Medieval Literature	Charles W. Jones	Cornell University	History of physical sciences in the early Middle Ages	Also won in 1945	[35][36][13][8]
	Music Research	R. D. Darrell	The Gramophone Shop	Book making possible for the listener a new approach to musical experience by use of mechanical media: phonograph, radio, and sound film		[37][8]
	Philosophy	Everett John Nelson [de]	University of Washington	Metaphysical foundations of formal logic; construction of a system of intensional logic and the application thereof to the problems of logic and logistic		[38][8]
		Eliseo Vivas	University of Wisconsin			[39][8]
	Renaissance History	Wallace K. Ferguson [de]	New York University	Histories and historical interpretations of the Renaissance written from the 15th century to the present		[40][8]
	United States History	Elmer Ellis	University of Missouri	Biographical study of Finley Peter Dunne and the influence of his writings, especially his Mr. Dooley essays, upon contemporary politics and political discussion		[41][8]
		Howard Wolf	Cleveland News	History of American news services	Also won in 1940	[42][13][8]
Natural Sciences	Astronomy-Astrophysics	Louis George Henyey	University of Chicago	Theory of the formation of stellar absorption lines		[43][36][8]
	Biochemistry	Isidore Gersh	Johns Hopkins Medical School	Intracellular distribution of certain organic compounds		[44][36][8]
	Biology	Gregory Pincus	Clark University	Developmental physiology of mammalian eggs and embryos	Also won in 1940	[2][36][8]
	Chemistry	Rose C. Slater	Newcomb College, Tulane University	Structure of crystals by methods of x-ray analysis		[45][36][8]
		Harold R. Snyder	University of Illinois	Configuration of nitrogen in organic compounds	Fellowship postponed until 1951	[36][46][8]
		Melville Lawrence Wolfrom	Ohio State University	General methods of investigating the organic structure of the natural products as carried on in several European laboratories		[47][36][8]
	Earth Science	Maurice Ewing	Lehigh University	Deep-sea investigations by gravitational and seismic methods	Also won in 1938, 1953	[36][8]
		Earl Hamlet Myers	Compton Junior College	Life cycles of the Foraminifera, with special reference to the role of these organisms in the sea and their significance in geological formations	Also won in 1938	[36][8]
		Chester Stock	California Institute of Technology	Vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of Mexico	Also won in 1940	[48][36][8]
	Mathematics	Oscar Zariski	Johns Hopkins University	Theory of algebraic varieties from the standpoint of modern algebra		[49][8]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Alfred George Marshak		Mechanism of chromosome division, especially the nature of the chromosome structure as revealed by response to neutron bombardment in a cyclotron	Also won in 1938	[36][8]
		Leland S. McClung	University of California	Certain disease-producing and food-spoiling bacteria		[32][36][8]
		Emil L. Smith	Columbia University	Kinetics and mechanism of photosynthesis	Also won in 1938	[36][8]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Adriaan Joseph van Rossem	California Institute of Technology	European ornithological collections with a view to establishing a permanent nomenclature for American birds		[50][36][13][8]
	Physics	Hubert Maxwell James	Purdue University	Application of wave mechanics to the computation of intensities in band spectra		[51][36][8]
	Plant Science	Lawrence Rogers Blinks	Stanford University	Relations of metabolism to the bio-electric properties of large plant cells	Also won in 1948, 1957	[52][36][8]
		Earl Martin Hildebrand	Cornell University	Transmission of fruit plant diseases		[36][13][8]
		Hilda F. Rosene	University of Texas	Forces and structures involved in the absorption and transport of water by plants		[32][36][8]
Social Sciences	Economics	Karl Richard Bopp	University of Missouri			[53]
		Mary Barnett Gilson	University of Chicago			[43][8]
		Elmer Wood	University of Missouri	Policy of the Bank of England, 1847-1873		[54][8]
	Political Science	Karl Loewenstein	Amherst College	Research in South America		[55][8]
		Walter Rice Sharp	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Functional study of the administrative process at the international level		[56][8]
	Psychology	Robert Tryon	University of California	Inheritance of ability to learn, based upon data derived from a series of experiments on the ability for successive generations of rats to learn their way through complicated mazes		[36][8]

1939 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fine Arts	Roberto Berdecio		Painting		[57]
		Carlos Orozco Romero				[58]
		Daniel Serra-Badué		Fine arts	Also won in 1938	[59]
Humanities	Spanish and Portuguese Literature	Raimundo Lida	Universidad de La Plata	Aesthetic and poetics of George Santayana	Also won in 1959	[60]
Natural Sciences	Mathematics	Alberto González Domínguez				[61]
		Mario O. González	Instituto de Matanzas	Differential equations, especially the theory of continuous groups		[62]
		Carlos Graef Fernández	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Theory of probability and mathematical theory of statistics	Also won in 1937, 1938	[63]
	Medicine	Hugo Pablo Chiodi	Sauberan Foundation	Respiratory phenomena cause by muscular activity in health and disease	Also won in 1940	[64]
		Raúl Palacios von Helms	Institute of Bacteriology, Chile	Filterable viruses, with special reference to rabies	Also won in 1940	[65]
	Medicine and Health	Henry N. Harkins			Also won in 1938, 1965	[36]
		Juan Pedro Picena	National University of the Littoral	Modern pathology		[66]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Julio de la Arena y Fernández	Universidad de la Habana	Cellular permeability and intracellular digestion in the protozoa		[67]
	Plant Science	Carlos Muñoz Pizarro	Universidad de Chile	Systematic botany, with special relations to native Chilean forge plants	Also won in 1938	[68]
Social Sciences	Law	Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Comparative study of the systems of forced labor in the Spanish and English colonies of North America	Also won in 1937	[69]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1938
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1940

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