Sixty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1937.
1937 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 | Robert Ardrey | University of Chicago | Playwriting | ||
Robert Turney | Also won in 1936 | |||||
Fiction | Frederic Prokosch | Writing | ||||
Fine Arts | Ahron Ben-Shmuel | Sculpture | Also won in 1938 | |||
Aaron Bohrod | Painting | Also won in 1936 | ||||
Jon Corbino | Also won in 1936 | |||||
Lu Duble | Bennett School | Sculpture | Also won in 1938 | |||
William Gropper | Drawing | |||||
George Grosz | Painting | Also won in 1938 | ||||
Josette Hébert-Coëffin | Also won in 1939 | |||||
Joe Jones | Painting: Conditions of the Dust Bowl | |||||
Rico Lebrun | Art Students League | Also won in 1935, 1962 | ||||
Music Composition | Ross Lee Finney | Smith College | Composition | Also won in 1947 | ||
Dante Fiorillo [de] | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1938 | |||||
Robert Guyn McBride | Bennington College | |||||
Photography | Edward Weston | Photographic satire in the West | Also won in 1938 | |||
Poetry | Sterling Allen Brown | Howard University | Long narrative poem | |||
Harold Lewis Cook | Writing | |||||
Sonia Raiziss Giop | Girls' High School | |||||
Jesse Hilton Stuart | Greenup County High School | |||||
Theatre Arts | Stewart Chaney [it] | Research in Europe | ||||
Mordecai Gorelik | Influence of scientific techniques upon methods of stage design | Also won in 1935 | ||||
Humanities | British History | Holden Furber | Consolidation of British power in India | |||
Classics | Charles Farwell Edson, Jr. | Historical geography and epigraphy of ancient Macedonia | Also won in 1936, 1956 | |||
Ernst Levy | University of Washington (visiting) | Development of Roman law in the western part of the empire during its decline | ||||
English Literature | Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford | University of Texas | Also won in 1929, 1957 | |||
Fine Arts Research | Lucy Driscoll | University of Chicago | Chinese art | |||
Kaj Klitgaard | Through the American Landscape (published 1941) | |||||
Carl Schuster | Also won in 1938 | |||||
General Nonfiction | Zora Neale Hurston | Practice of obeah | Also won in 1936 | |||
Max Norton | History of Socialist-Communist, Liberal-Democratic, Nationalist-Patriotic, and reactionary movements during the last 150 years | |||||
Donald Culross Peattie | Robert Owen's New Harmony experiment | Also won in 1936 | ||||
Literary Criticism | Richard Palmer Blackmur | Henry Adams | Also won in 1938 | |||
Medieval History | John Life La Monte | University of Cincinnati | Biographical and genealogical catalogue of the Crusader states | |||
Medieval Literature | Dorothy Bethurum | Lawrence College | Old and early Middle English homilies | |||
Anselm Strittmatter | Saint Anselm's Priory | History of Christian life and thought | Also won in 1932 | |||
Near Eastern Studies | Samuel Noah Kramer | University of Chicago | History of Sumerian culture from 2000 BC | Also won in 1938, 1961 | ||
Philosophy | Paul Weiss | Bryn Mawr College | Foundations of ethics in the light of modern logic and metaphysics | |||
Donald Cary Williams | University of California | Analysis and theory of knowledge | ||||
United States History | Edward Deming Andrews | History on the religious arts of the Shakers | ||||
Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ronold W. P. King | Lafayette College | Research in Germany | Also won in 1957 | |
Astronomy and Astrophysics | Willem Jacob Luyten | University of Minnesota | Stars in the southern hemisphere | Also won in 1928, 1929 | ||
Chemistry | Lawrence Olin Brockway | California Institute of Technology | Molecular studies of certain heavy metal carbonyls | |||
Earth Science | Charles Henry Behre, Jr [de] | Northwestern University | Comparative study of zinc-lead deposits | |||
Aaron Clement Waters [de] | Stanford University | Comparative study of metamorphic rock | ||||
Medicine and Health | Allan Lyle Grafflin | Harvard University | Functional and cytological studies of the mammalian and human kidney | Also won in 1934 | ||
Samuel Robert Means Reynolds | Long Island College of Medicine | Nature of the motility-stimulating action of Oestrin upon uterine muscles | ||||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eric Glendinning Ball | Johns Hopkins University | Mechanism of biological oxidations | Also won in 1958 | ||
William Clouser Boyd | Boston University | Blood groups among people in southwestern Asia | Also won in 1935, 1961 | |||
Florence Barbara Seibert | Henry Phipps Institute | Research with Theodor Svedberg | ||||
Herbert Shapiro | Princeton University | Nerve activity at low oxygen pressures | ||||
James Batcheller Sumner | Cornell University | Research with Theodor Svedberg | ||||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sydney William Britton | University of Virginia | Comparative study of tropical animals with those native to Virginia | |||
George Whitfield Deluz Hamlett | United States Biological Survey | Embryology and reproductive cycles of various mammals | Also won in 1936 | |||
William Louis Straus, Jr | Johns Hopkins University | Embryological development of muscle function | ||||
Physics | Hans Mueller | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Structure and properties of liquids | |||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Melville J. Herskovits | Northwestern University | Primitive economics | ||
Economics | Frank Whitson Fetter | Theories of money, banking, and international finance in England, 1800-1870 | ||||
Earl Jefferson Hamilton | Duke University | 17th-century managed currency experiment of John Law | ||||
Political Science | Ralph Droz Casey | University of Minnesota | Political party propaganda campaigns | |||
Harwood Lawrence Childs | Princeton University | Historical study of labor and capital in German politics | Also won in 1946 | |||
Psychology | Donald Keith Adams [ca; pt] | Duke University | Formulation of a theory of the changes in the structure of the mind that constitute mental development |
1937 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Andrés Henestrosa | National University of Mexico | Significance of Zapotecan culture | Also won in 1936 | |
Natural Science | Mathematics | Carlos Graef Fernández | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Also won in 1938, 1939 | ||
Medicine and Health | Joaquín Luco Valenzuela [es] | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Physiology, especially the action of certain drugs on smooth muscle | Also won in 1938, 1957, 1968 | ||
Alberto Marsal | National University of Córdoba | Also won in 1938 | ||||
Enrique Savino | National Department of Hygiene (Argentina) | Also won in 1935, 1936 | ||||
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 1938, 1954 | ||
Santos Soriano | University of Buenos Aires | Microbiological studies in artificial production of bacterial variations | ||||
Physics | Alfredo Baños, Jr. | National University of Mexico | Physical nature of dielectric constant and of the conductivity of dielectrics | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1957 | ||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Carlos García Robiou | University of Havana | Cuban prehistory | Also won in 1938 | |
Law | Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado | National University of Mexico | Comparative study of the systems of forced labor in the Spanish and English colonies of North America | Also won in 1939 |
See also
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1936
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1938
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