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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1926

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Thirty-seven scholars and artists across 18 states were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1926.

Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fine Arts	Glen Amos Mitchell		Group of paintings: religious and historical in character abroad	Also won in 1927
Elizabeth Olds		Portraiture
Frank H. Schwarz		Mural decoration in Europe
Musical Composition	Aaron Copland		Composition	Also won in 1925
Leopold Mannes			url=https://sites.uw.edu/prized/guggenheim-fellow/guggenheim-fellowship-award-tbd-years/	title=Guggenheim Fellowship (1925-1929)	publisher=University of Washington	access-date=2022-10-11}}
Roger Sessions	Cleveland Institute of Music	Also won in 1927
Poetry	Stephen Vincent Benét		Poetry and prose	Also won in 1927
Humanities	Architecture, Planning and Design	Kenneth John Conant	Harvard University	Authoritative set of drawings, being restorations of three Romanesque French churches	Also won in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1954
Biography	John Donald Wade	University of Georgia	Early history of Georgia and Alabama
British History	Violet Barbour	Vassar College	Sir George Downing	Also won in 1925
Paul Knaplund	University of Wisconsin	Monograph preparation on William Ewart Gladstone as a colonial statesman
Classics	Allen Brown West	Princeton University	Athenian empire	Also won in 1925
English Literature	Thomas Middleton Raysor	State College of Washington	New edition of Coleridge's literary criticism	Also won in 1928
Hyder Edward Rollins	New York University	Studying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection
Robert Schafer	University of Cincinnati	New edition of the works of Fulke Greville
General Nonfiction	Isaac Fisher		Danger trends in world race relations	Also won in 1925
German and Scandinavian Literature	Walter Silz	Harvard University	Literature of Heinrich Von Kleist	Also won in 1960
Medieval History	Warren Ault	Boston University	English local government
David S. Blondheim	Johns Hopkins University	Use of romance languages by the Jews
Near Eastern Studies	Ephraim Avigdor Speiser	University of Pennsylvania	Mitanni group of peoples in Northern Mesopotamia	Also won in 1927
Philosophy	Ralph Monroe Eaton	Harvard University	Theory of knowledge in its relation to logic and metaphysics		title=Harvard teachers win travelling awards	date=1926-05-01	newspaper=The Cambridge Tribune	location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA	volume=XLIX	number=9	url=https://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/?a=d&d=Tribune19260501-01.2.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------	access-date=2022-10-11}}
Marjorie Hope Nicolson	Goucher College	English 17th century thought
Theatre Arts	Hallie Flanagan	Vassar College	Developments of the theater in Europe
Natural Sciences	Chemistry	Wallace R. Brode	Bureau of Standards	Azo dyes	Also won in 1927
Linus Pauling	California Institute of Technology	Theoretical and experimental research into the atom	Also won in 1927, 1965
Mathematics	Ernest Preston Lane	University of Chicago	Comparative study of geometry		url=https://www.uchicago.edu/who-we-are/global-impact/accolades/guggenheim-fellowships	title=Guggenheim Fellowships	publisher=University of Chicago	access-date=2022-10-11}}
Ellis Bagley Stouffer	University of Kansas	Comparative study of differential geometry
Norbert Wiener	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Bohr's almost periodic functions
Medicine and Health	Julian Herman Lewis	University of Chicago	Fundamental nature of immunity phenomena
Harold Myers Marvin	Yale Medical School	Cardiovascular physiology
Organismic Biology and Ecology	Royal Norton Chapman	University of Minnesota	Destructive pests
Alfred E. Emerson	University of Pittsburgh	Origin of the caste of termites
Franklin Pearce Reagan	University of California, Indiana University	Earliest blood vessels of mammalian embryos
Physics	Arthur Compton	University of Chicago	Nature of radiation
Edwin C. Kemble	Harvard University	New quantum theory
Ralph A. Sawyer	University of Michigan	Spectral series relations in extreme ultraviolet metallic spectra
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	James Penrose Harland	Harvard University	Ancient civilizations in Greece, Crete and Cyclades	Also won in 1927
Gladys Reichard	Columbia University	Art style of Melanesia
Economics	Alzada Comstock	Mount Holyoke College	League of Nations financial reconstruction work
Geography and Environmental Studies	Glenn Thomas Trewartha	University of Wisconsin	Geographic investigations of Japan and China	Also won in 1943
Political Science	Herbert Feis	University of Cincinnati	French-brand German pre-war foreign investments
Religion	Roland Bainton	Yale Divinity School	Preparation of a book on religious tolerance
Kenneth James Saunders	Pacific School of Religion	Oriental religions	Also won in 1925

References

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"1926". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Kessenich, Marissa. (2017-03-15). "In the Galleries: Elizabeth Olds’s quest for honest American art". Ransom Center Magazine, University of Texas.
(July 1926). "American Academy in Rome". Pencil Points.
"Aaron Copland Collection". Library of Congress.
(1926-04-19). "Into art and research". The Kansas City Times.
"Guggenheim Fellowship (1925-1929)". University of Washington.
Fulton, Joe B.. "Stephen Vincent Benet 1898-1943". Mark Twain Quarterly.
Fergusson, Peter J.. (1985). "Kenneth John Conant (1895-1984)". International Center of Medieval Art.
(1926-05-02). "Guggenheim awards". Pittsburgh Daily Post.
"April 19, 1926". Vassar College.
(1964-04-11). "Paul A. Knaplund, 79, Is Dead; Historian Taught at Wisconsin". The New York Times.
Bowler, Richard N.. (1950). "John Henry Newman and Robert Shafer compared on a liberal education". University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(1936-04-28). "Silz Will Take Over German Department at Washington". The Harvard Crimson.
(1934-03-20). "Johns Hopkins U. man kills self with gas". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"Notes and News". The Modern Language Journal.
Greenberg, Moshe. (1968). "In Memory of E. A. Speiser". American Oriental Society.
(1926-05-01). "Harvard teachers win travelling awards". The Cambridge Tribune.
Tayler, Edward W.. (1981). "In Memoriam: Marjorie Hope Nicolson (1894-1981)". University of Pennsylvania Press.
"Early Playwriting by Women". Yale University Library.
Musso, Anthony P.. (2020-12-15). "Federal Theater Project a success under Vassar professor before defunding". Poughkeepsie Journal.
(2021-09-17). "Wallace R. Brode". Optica.
"Linus Pauling". The Nobel Prize.
"Guggenheim Fellowships". University of Chicago.
"Obituaries - Norbert Wiener". Physics Today.
(1982). "Alfred Edwards Emerson 1896-1976". National Academy of Sciences.
"Obituaries - Ralph A. Sawyer". Physics Today.
"James Penrose Harland". University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Landar, Herbert. (January 1980). "American Indian Linguistic Contributions of Gladys A. Reichard: A Bibliography". The University of Chicago Press.
(June 1926). "Notes". American Economic Association.
"Herbert Feis". Institute for Advanced Study.

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