List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1928

Fifty-nine fellowships were awarded to artists and scholars from more than 20 states and 16 previous winners had their fellowships extended.^[1][2][3] $173,000 was disbursed.^[4]

1928 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Drama and Performance Art	Paul Green		Theater and drama of Continental Europe for the purpose of gaining technical training	Also won in 1929	[5][4][6][7]
		Lynn Riggs		Work on what would later become Green Grow the Lilacs		[8]
	Fiction	Eric Derwent Walrond		Writing	Also won in 1929	[9][7]
	Fine Arts	Anthony Angarola	Kansas City Art Institute	Painting		[10][11]
		William Auerbach-Levy	Educational Alliance	Etching and painting		[12][13]
		Isamu Noguchi	University of California		Also won in 1927	[14]
		Eliot O'Hara		Painting		[15][16]
		Doris Spiegel		Drawing and painting, and to make a special study of street types in France and Italy		[17]
		Raymond Turner		Sculpture		[18]
	Music Composition	Robert Russell Bennett		Composing	Also won in 1929	[19][20]
		Roy Harris	University of California		Also won in 1927, 1976	[19][21][14][20]
		Quinto Maganini	University of California	Epic symphony about the life and era of Napoleon I and to work on an opera based on Bret Harte's The Bellringer of Angels	Also won in 1929	[19][21][14][20][7]
		Carl McKinley			Also won in 1927	[19]
		Bernard Rogers			Also won in 1927	[19]
	Poetry	Léonie Adams		Poetry writing and translation of François Villon's lyrics Also won in 1929		[22][23]
		Countee Cullen		Narrative poems and the libretto for an opera		[24][25][7]
		Allen Tate			Also won in 1929	[26][27]
Humanities	American Literature	Robert Ernest Spiller	Swarthmore College	Writings of James Fennimore Cooper and other studies in the influence of English and other European cultures on the earliest period of American literature in London		[28][29][1]
	Architecture, Planning and Design	Kenneth John Conant	Harvard University	Drawings of the restorations of the French Romanesque Churches the Abbey Church in Cluny, the Church of St. Mary in Tours, and the Church of St. Martial at Limoges	Also won in 1926, 1929, 1930, 1954	[30][31]
		Myron Bement Smith	Yale University	Brick and stonework	Also won in 1927	[32][33]
	British History	Donald Grove Barnes	University of Oregon at Eugene	Henry Pelham, emphasizing Pelham's part in the administration of Walpole and the significance in English history of his own ministry from 1743 to 1754		[34][35]
	Classics	Rachel Louise Sargent	North Central College	Social and economic life of Ancient Greece, especially slavery		[36][37][38]
		Rodney Potter Robinson	University of Cincinnati	Completion of Palaeographia Iberica by the late John Miller Burnham		[39][40]
	English Literature	John William Draper	University of Maine	Graveyard School of 18th century poetry	Also won in 1927	[38]
		John DeLancey Ferguson	Ohio Wesleyan University	Preparation of a complete text edition of the Letters of Robert Burns, re-edited from the original manuscripts		[41][42]
		Thurman Losson Hood	Harvard University	Compiling and editing for publication a volume of the uncollected letters of Robert Browning		[43]
		Glenn Arthur Hughes	University of Washington, Seattle	The imagist and related movements in poetry		[44][14][35]
		Alan Dugald McKillop	Rice Institute	Samuel Richardson		[45]
		Thomas Middleton Raysor	State College of Washington	Preparation of a corrected edition of S. T. Coleridge's lectures and marginalia on Shakespeare and other literary remains	Also won in 1926	[46]
		Helen Constance White	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th century England	Also won in 1930	[47][48]
		Louis Booker Wright	University of North Carolina	Reflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642	Also won in 1929	[49][6][50][51]
	French History	E. Malcolm Carroll	Duke University	Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic	Also won in 1927	[6]
		Louis R. Gottschalk	University of Louisville	Career and influence of General Lafayette, specifically on the several revolutionary movements with which he was connected	Also won in 1954	[52][4][53]
	French Literature	Edith Philips	Goucher College	Quaker and Quaker ideas in French Literature with particular reference to the eighteenth century		[54][51]
	General Nonfiction	Felix M. Morley	The Baltimore Sun	Operation of the League of Nations	Also won in 1929	[55][1][51]
		Nathaniel Peffer		Old and established Eastern civilizations of the impact of industrialism and nationalism, the two principal products of the West brought to the East	Also won in 1927	[56][57]
	Medieval Literature	Harry Caplan [de]	Cornell University	History of medieval theories of rhetoric	Also won in 1956	[58][4]
		Roland Mitchell Smith	Wesleyan University	Historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland	Also won in 1929	[59]
	Medieval History	Carl Stephenson	University of Wisconsin	Preparing for publication of a volume of studies in municipal history		[48][60]
	Music Research	Nicholas G.J. Ballanta		Musical conception of the African peoples and a comparison of that conception with the older systems of music in Europe	Also won in 1927	[61][62][7]
	Philosophy	Sidney Hook	New York University[citation needed]		Also won in 1929, 1953	[63]
	Religion	Robert Pierce Casey	University of Cincinnati	Preparation of critical editions of the texts of St. Athanasius of Alexandria De Incarnatione and of Titus of Bostra Contra Manichaeo	Also won in 1929	[40][64][65]
	Renaissance History	Albert Hyma	University of Michigan	The youth of Erasmus		[66][65]
	South Asian Studies	W. Norman Brown	University of Pennsylvania	Jainism, with special emphasis on the study of the legends and history centering around the saga Kalaka as preserve in Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, of the texts themselves, and of the art of the paintings illustrating certain manuscripts of these texts		[28][1][51][50]
	Spanish and Portuguese Literature	Charles E. Kany [es]	University of California	Life in Madrid during the 18th century		[21]
		Antonio García Solalinde	University of Wisconsin			[48]
	United States History	Theodore C. Blegen	University of Minnesota	Norwegian immigration to the United States		[67][68][11]
		Curtis Putnam Nettels	University of Wisconsin			[48]
Natural Sciences	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Willem Jacob Luyten	Harvard University	Photographing of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1905	Also won in 1929, 1937	[69][7]
		Otto Struve	University of Chicago			[52]
	Chemistry	George Hopkins Coleman	University of Iowa			[60]
		Earl C. Gilbert				[70]
	Earth Science	Perry Byerly	University of California	American earthquakes	Also won in 1952	[60][21][14][7]
	Engineering	Lester E. Reukema	University of California	Electric discharge in gases at high frequencies and the breakdown of solid insulating materials under high electric stress		[21][14][7]
	Mathematics	Olive C. Hazlett			Also won in 1929	[71]
	Medicine and Health	William Vernon Cone	Columbia University	Reactions of the intestinal cells of the central nervous system and related subjects		[60]
		Robert Richard Dieterle	University of Michigan			[65][72]
		John Charnley McKinley	University of Minnesota	Quantitative studies on human muscle tonus with special reference to the relation of tonus measurements to electromyography		[73][68][11]
		Warren Kidwell Stratman-Thomas	University of Wisconsin	Therapeutic value of six new arsenical compounds in the chemo-therapy of sleeping sickness in animals and men	Also won in 1929	[48][50]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Ralph Erskine Cleland	Goucher College	Chromosome constitution and behavior in the evening primroses in relation to certain genetical problems	Also won in 1927	[74][51]
		Emmett Reid Dunn	Smith College	Central American reptiles and amphibians, and salamanders of the Ambystomidae family		[1][7]
		Dwight Elmer Minnich	University of Minnesota; American Society of Zoologists	Physiological studies of the chemical senses of insects		[68][75][11]
		Homer William Smith	University of Virginia	Physiological study of certain rare species of lung fishes which live in the waters of the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea	Also won in 1930	[76][77][51][50]
	Physics	John Joseph Hopfield	University of California	Spectra of oxygen and nitrogen		[21][14][7]
		Roy J. Kennedy [de]	California Institute of Technology	Establishment of a consistent theory of radiation	Also won in 1929	[4][14][51][50][7]
		Noel Charlton Little	Bowdoin College	Thermomagnetic properties of gaseous molecules by a new method of convective flow with the view of studying their structure and spatial quantitization		[38]
		Francis Wheeler Loomis				[78]
		William Weldon Watson	University of Chicago	Structure of molecules and the nature of chemical reactions in gases		[52][11][79]
	Plant Science	Richard Bradfield			Also won in 1927	[80]
		Rodney Beecher Harvey	University of Minnesota	Winter hardiness of plans of northern Russia	Also won in 1927	[68][11]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Edwin Meyer Loeb	University of California	Primitive peoples of Sumatra and adjacent western islands		[21][14][7]
		Robert H. Pfeiffer				[81]
	Economics	Lionel Danforth Edie	University of Chicago		Also won in 1929	[52]
		Alvin Harvey Hansen	University of Minnesota	Economic readjustment in Germany during the period from 1920 to 1927		[68][11]
	Political Science	Leonard Dupee White			Also won in 1927	[52]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1929