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Fifty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1938.[1][2]

1938 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Arthur Arent Federal Theatre Project Playwriting [3][4]
Fiction August William Derleth Writing [5]
Clifford Shirley Dowdey [6][7][8]
Katherine Anne Porter Also won in 1931 [9][10]
Richard Wright [11]
Fine Arts Ahron Ben-Shmuel Sculpture Also won in 1937 [12]
Janet de Coux Also won in 1939 [13]
Lu Duble Also won in 1937 [14][8][4][10]
David Fredenthal Cranbrook Academy of Art Painting Also won in 1939 [15][16]
George Grosz Sterne-Grosz art school Also won in 1937 [17]
Rosella Hartman Also won in 1934 [8][4]
Frank Mechau Mural paintings of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco Also won in 1934, 1935 [18][10]
Music Composition Paul Creston St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church Composition Also won in 1939 [19][20]
David Diamond [21][4]
Dante Fiorillo [de] Also won in 1935, 1936, 1937 [22]
William Grant Still Also won in 1934, 1935 [23][10]
Photography Edward Weston Western United States Also won in 1937 [24][10]
Poetry Asher Brynes Writing Also won in 1939, 1944 [25]
Rolfe Humphries Woodmere Academy [26][4]
Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre University of California, Los Angeles [27][10]
Theatre Arts Samuel Selden University of North Carolina Basic design in the directing of plays [28][8]
Humanities American Literature Joseph Leon Edel Havas Edition of Henry James' unpublished plays Also won in 1936, 1965 [29][4]
Architecture, Planning and Design Lewis Mumford Completion of a book on Form by the addition of material obtained firsthand in Europe Also won in 1932, 1956 [30][4]
Classics Faith Thompson University of Minnesota Constitutional history [31][32]
Virginia Randolph Grace Dates and places of manufacture of earthware jars in the Mediterranean basin during the period of classical antiquity as the basis for a history of the commerce of the region during that period Also won in 1953 [33]
Fine Arts Research Marvin Chauncey Ross Walters Art Museum Byzantine enamels Also won in 1939, 1948, 1952 [34][35]
Carl Schuster Pennsylvania Museum of Art Chinese folk art Also won in 1937 [7][10]
General Nonfiction Josef Berger Federal Writers' Project Tall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England ports Also won in 1946. Pseudonym: Digges, Jeremiah. [36][2]
German and East European History O. Fritiof Ander Augustana College History of Sweden since 1815 Also won in 1939 [37]
Literary Criticism Richard Palmer Blackmur Life and works of Henry Adams Also won in 1937 [38]
Mary M. Colum Ideas that have made modern literature Also won in 1930 [39][4]
Linguistics Peter Alexis Boodberg University of California, Berkeley Reconstruction of archaic Chinese and studies of cultural interactions between China and Central Asia Also won in 1955, 1963 [40][10]
Allen Walker Read University of Chicago Dictionary of "Briticisms" Also won in 1939 [41][2][8][4][10]
Medieval Literature Jacob Hammer Hunter College Definite text of Geoffrey of Monmouth's history of Britain Also won in 1929, 1931 [42][4]
Frederick M. Salter Northeast Experimental Junior College Edition of the Chester Craft Plays and a monograph of its history [43]
United States History Foster Rhea Dulles Recreational activities in America from the colonial period until modern times, with an interpretation of changing trends in popular use of leisure time [44]
Walter Prescott Webb University of Texas Relationship between democratic government and an open frontier Also won in 1954 [45][10]
Natural Science Earth Science Maurice Ewing Lehigh University Geophysical investigations of oceanic basins by gravitational and seismic methods Also won in 1953, 1955 [46][7][10]
Earl Hamlet Myers Scripps Institution of Oceanography Life cycles of Foraminifera, with special reference to the role of these organisms in the sea and their significance in geological formations Also won in 1939 [47][10]
Adolf Pabst University of California, Berkeley Orientation of minerals in granitic rock; silicate crystal structure [48][10]
Mathematics D. H. Lehmer Lehigh University Analytic theory of numbers, especially in connection with the arithmetical theory of elliptic modular functions [49][7]
Medicine and Health Henry N. Harkins Surgical and trauma shock, particularly as seen in burns Also won in 1939, 1965 [50]
Molecular and Cellular Biology Alfred George Marshak New England Deaconess Hospital Mechanism of chromosome division Also won in 1939 [51]
Emil L. Smith Columbia University Chlorophyll-protein complex Also won in 1939 [52]
Organismic Biology & Ecology Myron Gordon Analysis of the evolutionary process in the development of Mexican platyfish Also won in 1940 [53][10]
Clyde E. Keeler Harvard Medical School Book on genetics in relation to medicine [54]
Arthur Loveridge Harvard University Ecological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rainforest remnants in East Africa Also won in 1933 [55]
Colin Campbell Sanborn Field Museum Taxonomic revision of six families of bats [2]
Jack Henry Sandground Harvard University Medical School Comparative parasitology, chiefly in the Dutch East Indies [56]
Physics Tom Wilkerson Bonner Rice Institute Nuclear physics [57]
Samuel Abraham Goudsmit University of Michigan Recent developments of the theory of nuclear structure [58][16]
Plant Science Alden Springer Crafts University of California, Davis Anatomical and physiological study of plants Also won in 1957 [59][10]
Philip Alexander Munz Pomona College Onagraceae in South America [60][10]
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Sherburne Friend Cook University of California, Berkeley Biological influence of the influx of Western European civilization on the indigenous population of Spanish America Also won in 1947 [61][10]
Alfred Métraux University of California, Bishop Museum Gran Chaco aboriginal population Also won in 1940 [62][10]
Political Science Lloyd K. Garrison University of Wisconsin School of Law British labor legislation [34][63]
Charles Rumford Walker Influence of radical political movements in the U.S. since 1917 [2]

1938 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

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Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Fine Arts Leopoldo Méndez [64]
Daniel Serra Badué Also won in 1939 [65]
Music Composition Carlos Chávez Composition Also won in 1956 [2][10]
Natural Sciences Mathematics Carlos Graef Fernández Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Theory of probability and mathematical theory of statistics Also won in 1937, 1939 [66]
Medicine and Health Joaquín Maass y Patiño Juárez Hospital Clinical studies in neurosurgery [67]
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 1937, 1954 [68]
Organismic Biology & Ecology Pedro Martínez-Esteve Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Physiology of reproduction [69]
Plant Science Carlos Muñoz Pizarro Universidad de Chile Systematic botany, with special relations to native Chilean forage plants Also won in 1939 [70]
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Carlos García Robiou Universidad de La Habana Cuban prehistory Also won in 1937 [71][72]

See also

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References

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