List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1930

Eighty-five Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1930, amounting to $200,000.^[1][2][3] The Latin-American Exchange Fellowships were introduced this year and brought two fellows to the United States to study.^[4][1]

1930 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Drama and Performance Art	Ellsworth Prouty Conkle	University of Delaware	Writing		[3][5]
	Fiction	Walter Stanley Campbell	University of Oklahoma	Biography of Sitting Bull	Also won in 1931	[3][5][6]
		Jonathan Worth Daniels		Writing		[3][5][7][6]
		Helen Rose Hull	Columbia University			[5]
		Nella Larsen Imes				[8]
		Jacques G. Le Clercq	Columbia University			[9]
		Thomas Clayton Wolfe	Washington Square College			[7][6]
	Fine Arts	Pamela Bianco		Painting		[10][11]
		Harold Cash		Sculpture	Also won in 1931	[6][12]
		Mordi Gassner		Mural painting	Also won in 1929	[13][14]
		Thomas Handforth		Etching		[15]
		Arthur Lee	Art Students League of New York	Classic European sculpture		[12][16]
		Monty Lewis		Painting		[12]
		Sidney Loeb		Sculpture	Also won in 1929	[17]
		E. Bruce Moore	University of Wichita	Sculpture	Also won in 1929	[5]
		Archibald John Motley, Jr.		Painting	Also won in 1929	[18][19]
		Francis R. White		Gothic glassmaking		[5][12]
	Music Composition	Carl Bricken		Composing		[20][21]
		Ruth Porter Crawford				[20][1]
		Robert M. Delaney			Also won in 1929	[5][22]
		Otto Luening			Also won in 1931, 1974	[5][20][1]
		Quincy Porter			Also won in 1929	[4]
		Randall Thompson	Wellesley College		Also won in 1929	[4][20][21]
		Mark Wessel			Also won in 1932	[5][20][1]
	Poetry	Edward Davison		Preparation for an epic poem		[23]
		H. Phelps Putnam		Writing		[4]
Humanities	Architecture, Planning and Design	Kenneth John Conant	Harvard University	Restoration drawings of Cluny Abbey, the Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours, and the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, all Romanesque French churches	Also won in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1954	[24][25]
	Bibliography	Mary McRae McLucas	John Day Company	Methods past and present of producing printing in the outstanding presses of Central Europe and Great Britain; study of hand-printing and photographic composition; bibliography of books about books		[26][6][27]
	British History	Viola Florence Barnes	Mt. Holyoke College	England's colonial policy, particularly in relation to Massachusetts		[3][5][4][28]
		Charles Harris Wesley	Howard University	Negro slavery apprenticeship in the British West Indies between 1807 and 1838		[5][6]
	Classics	Ben Edwin Perry	University of Illinois	Life of Aesop	Also won in 1954	[5][29]
	East Asian Studies	Owen Lattimore		Present conditions in Manchuria and Chinese Turkistan and their historical and geographical background	Also won in 1932	[4][30]
	Economics History	Paul Schuster Taylor	University of California	Socio-economic aspects of the emigration of Mexicans to the United States		[5][4]
	English Literature	Ford Keeler Brown	St. John's College, Annapolis	Social aspects and influence of the English Evangelicals, 1798-1830	Also won in 1927, 1930	[31][5]
		Neilson Campbell Hannay	Boston University	Biography of William Cowper and known letters		[4][32]
		John Leslie Hotson	New York University	Systematic searches for new material for writing the lives of Elizabethan poets and dramatists	Also won in 1929	[33][34]
		Henry Donaldson Jordan	Dartmouth College	English newspaper press, 1853-1865		[4][35]
		Eleanore Boswell	University of London	History of Restoration theatre		[36]
		Helen Constance White	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th-century England	Also won in 1929	[37][5][1]
	Fine Arts Research	Anita Brenner		Pre-Spanish America art in the southern countries of the North American continent, with special attention to Aztec art	Also won in 1931	[12][4]
		Thomas Temple Hoopes	New York University	History of firearms from their invention to the introduction of automatic manufacturing machinery		[38]
		Clarence Kennedy	Smith College	Study of Desiderio da Settignano		[12][4]
		Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy		Monograph on Alesso Baldovinetti		[12][4]
	French Literature	Henri Maurice Peyre	Yale University	Louis Ménard		[4]
	German and Eastern European History	Brynjolf Jakob Hovde	University of Pittsburgh	Social and economic conditions in Scandinavia, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries		[5][39]
	Iberian and Latin American History	John Tate Lanning	Duke University	Universities of the Hispanic colonies of the New World		[7][4][6]
	Literary Criticism	Mary M. Colum		Contemporary American and French ideas of criticism	Also won in 1938	[4]
		Joseph Wood Krutch	The Nation	Aesthetics		[3][5][6]
	Medieval Literature	Blanche Beatrice Boyer	Mt. Holyoke College	Latin manuscripts written in minuscule of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon script	Also won in 1929	[4]
		Sister Mary Aquinas Devlin	Rosary College	Thomas Brunton's life, sermons, and influence		[5][1]
		Richard Ager Newhall	Williams College	Military and financial phases of the latter part of the Hundred Years' War		[4][40]
		Josiah Cox Russell	New Mexico Normal University	Biographical data of the manuscripts of certain Latin authors and 13th-century England		[5][41]
		John Webster Spargo	Northwestern University	Medieval legends about Virgil	Also won in 1936	[5][1]
	Medieval History	Eugene Hugh Byrne	University of Wisconsin	Commercial custom and practice in the Middle Ages		[5][1]
	Music Research	Roy Dickinson Welch	Smith College	Relation of musical art to general culture and social history	Also won in 1931	[4][5][42]
	Philosophy	A. Cornelius Benjamin	University of Illinois	Logic and scientific methodology in England and France; preparation for a systematic treatise on The Logic of Science		[5][1][43]
		John Daniel Wild	Harvard University	Philosophical works of George Berkeley	Also won in 1956	[4][44]
	Religion	Silva Tipple New		Textual criticism of the New Testament and the discrimination of the textual families in Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts of the New Testament	Also won in 1929	[45][4]
	Spanish and Portuguese Literature	Hyman Chonon Berkowitz	University of Wisconsin	Benito Pérez Galdós and his contribution to Spanish life and letters		[5][1][46]
		Frederick Courtney Tarr	Princeton University	Origin and development of the Articulos de costumbre	Also won in 1929	[47][21]
	United States History	Reginald C. McGrane	University of Cincinnati	British investment in the United States, 1830-1860	Also won in 1931	[48][49]
Natural Sciences	Chemistry	Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr.	University of Illinois	Problems in the field of molecular rays	Also won in 1931	[5][1][50]
		Evald Laurids Skau	Trinity College	Purification of organic compounds		[4]
	Earth Science	Ernest Raymond Lilley	New York University	Political and commercial policies regarding the development of mineral resources in the light of present knowledge of the character and extent of such resources		[51][21]
	Mathematics	Harry Shultz Vandiver	University of Texas, Austin	Theory of algebraic numbers	Also won in 1930	[52][6]
	Medicine and Health	Edward Lee Howes	Yale University	Problems of wound healing	Also won in 1931	[4]
		Eric Oldberg	Peter Bent Brigham Hospital			[4][53]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Theodore L. Althausen	University of California Medical School	Certain physiological disturbances and functional regeneration of the liver under various conditions of experimental and spontaneous injury		[5][54]
		Simon Freed	University of California	Magnetic and spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules in the crystalline state		[5][55]
		Arthur Grollman	Johns Hopkins University	Physical chemistry		[5]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Eugene M. Landis	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania	Reactions affecting the minute blood vessels of mammals	Also won in 1929	[56]
		Clarence Eugene Mickel	University of Minnesota	Life and habits of parasitical wasps		[1]
		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	[57][58]
	Plant Science	Carroll William Dodge	Harvard University	Completion of lichen flora in Costa Rica	Also won in 1929	[4][59]
		Thomas H. Goodspeed	University of California	Monographic treatment of the genus Nicotiana	Also won in 1935, 1956	[5][60]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Ruth L. Bunzel	Barnard College	Indian backgrounds of the Mexican nation	Also won in 1931	[12][4]
	Economics	Paul Howard Douglas	University of Chicago	Movement of real wages in Europe, 1900-1930		[5][1][61]
		Mordecai Ezekiel	Bureau of Agricultural Economics	Methods used by governmental agencies in leading European countries in regulating, directing and controlling economic activities		[5]
		Frank Hyneman Knight	University of Chicago	Movements in economic and social thought in relation to the British classical economics and the current development of institutional and statistical economics in America		[5][1][62]
		Katharine Snodgrass	Stanford University	Economics of food substitution, specifically the displacement of dairy fats by vegetable fats in Northern Europe		[5][63]
	Psychology	John Paul Nafe	Clark University	Validity of the "quantitative" theory of sensory feelings		[4][64]
		Carroll C. Pratt	Harvard University	Expressive properties of musical structure by means of methods being developed by the Gestalt psychologists		[4][65]
	Political Science	Nicholas John Spykman	Yale University	Asiatic nationalism viewed as a political expression of the cultural transformation due to the penetration of Euro-American culture into areas of different cultures		[4][66]

1930 Latin-American Exchange Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Mathematics	Alfonso Nápoles Gándara [ca]	Escuela Nacional Preparatoria	Differential geometry and harmonic analysis		[4][1][67]
Medicine and Health	Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns	National University of Mexico	Physiology and biochemistry		[4][1]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1929
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931