List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1928
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1928 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
- Leonie AdamsLéonie AdamsLéonie Fuller Adams was an American poet. She was appointed the seventh Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1948.-Biography:...
, Deceased. Poetry: 1928, 1929. - Anthony AngarolaAnthony AngarolaAnthony Angarola was an American painter and art instructor. He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since he was an Italian immigrant himself, his work focused on people who struggled to adapt to a foreign culture.-Work:...
, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1928. - William Auerbach-LevyWilliam Auerbach-LevyWilliam Auerbach-Levy was a Russian-American artist known for his paintings, etchings and caricatures.Auerbach-Levy was Jewish, and was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia, and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1894. He studied in New York City and Paris, and subsequently taught at the...
, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1928. - Donald Grove Barnes, Deceased. British History: 1928.
- Robert Russell BennettRobert Russell BennettRobert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers. In 1957 and 2008, Bennett received Tony Awards...
, Deceased. Music Composition: 1928, 1929. - Theodore C. BlegenTheodore C. BlegenTheodore Christian Blegen was an American historian and author. Theodore Blegen was the author of numerous historic reference books, papers and articles written over a five decade period...
, Deceased. U.S. History: 1928. - W. Norman BrownW. Norman BrownWilliam Norman Brown was a distinguished Indologist, Sanskritist who established the first academic department of South Asian Studies in the U.S. and organized the American Oriental Society in 1926...
, Deceased. Far Eastern Studies: 1928. - Perry Byerly, Deceased. Earth Science: 1928, 1952.
- Harry Caplan, Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1928, 1956.
- Robert Pierce Casey, Deceased. Religion: 1928, 1929.
- George Hopkins Coleman, Deceased. Chemistry: 1928.
- Kenneth John ConantKenneth John ConantKenneth John Conant was an American architectural historian specializing in medieval architecture.Conant was born in Neenah, Wisconsin and studied at Harvard University in 1911...
, Deceased. Architecture: 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1954. - William Vernon Cone, Deceased. Medicine: 1928.
- Countee CullenCountee CullenCountee Cullen was an American poet who was popular during the Harlem Renaissance.- Biography :Cullen was an American poet and a leading figure with Langston Hughes in the Harlem Renaissance. This 1920s artistic movement produced the first large body of work in the United States written by African...
, Deceased. Poetry: 1928. - Robert Richard Dieterle, Deceased. Medicine: 1928.
- Emmett Reid DunnEmmett Reid DunnEmmett Reid Dunn was an American herpetologist noted for his work in Panama and for studies of salamanders in the Eastern United States. He attended Haverford College as an undergraduate and received his PhD from Harvard University. After receiving his PhD taught at Smith College...
, Deceased. Biology: 1928. - Lionel Danforth Edie, Deceased. Economics: 1928, 1929.
- John DeLancey Ferguson, Deceased. 18th Century English Literature: 1928.
- Earl C. Gilbert, Deceased. Chemistry: 1928.
- Louis R. GottschalkLouis R. GottschalkLouis Reichenthal Gottschalk was an American historian, an expert on Lafayette and the French Revolution. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, where he was the Gustavus F. and Ann M...
, Deceased. French History: 1928, 1954. - Paul Green, Deceased. Drama: 1928, 1929.
- Alvin Harvey Hansen, Deceased. Economics: 1928.
- Olive C. Hazlett, Deceased. Mathematics: 1928, 1929.
- Thurman Losson Hood, Deceased. 19th Century English Literature: 1928.
- Sidney HookSidney HookSidney Hook was an American pragmatic philosopher known for his contributions to public debates.A student of John Dewey, Hook continued to examine the philosophy of history, of education, politics, and of ethics. After embracing Marxism in his youth, Hook was known for his criticisms of...
, Deceased. Philosophy: 1928, 1929, 1953. - John Joseph HopfieldJohn Joseph HopfieldJohn Joseph Hopfield is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield Network....
, Deceased. Physics: 1928. - Glenn Arthur Hughes, Deceased. American Literature, 20th Century English Literature: 1928.
- Albert Hyma, Deceased. Renaissance Studies: 1928.
- Charles Emil Kany, Deceased. Spanish: 1928.
- Roy James Kennedy, Deceased. Physics: 1928, 1929.
- Noel Charlton Little, Deceased. Physics: 1928.
- Edwin Meyer Loeb, Deceased. Anthropology: 1928.
- Francis Wheeler LoomisFrancis Wheeler LoomisFrancis Wheeler Loomis , born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, was an American scientist most widely known for his contributions in the field of physics...
, Deceased. Particle Physics: 1928. - Willem Jacob LuytenWillem Jacob LuytenWillem Jacob Luyten was a Dutch-American astronomer.-Life:Jacob Luyten was born in Semarang, Java, at the time part of the Dutch East Indies. His mother was Cornelia M. Francken and his father Jacob Luyten, a French teacher.At the age of 11 he observed Halley's comet, which started his...
, Deceased. Astronomy-Astrophysics: 1928, 1929, 1937. - Quinto Maganini, Deceased. Music Composition: 1928, 1929.
- Alan Dugald McKillop, Deceased. 18th Century English Literature: 1928.
- John Charnley McKinley, Deceased. Medicine: 1928.
- Dwight Elmer Minnich, Deceased. Biology: 1928.
- Felix M. Morley, Deceased. Non-Fiction: 1928, 1929.
- Curtis Putnam Nettels, Deceased. U.S. History: 1928.
- Eliot O'Hara, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1928.
- Robert Henry Pfeiffer, Deceased. Anthropology: 1928.
- Edith Philips, Deceased. French: 1928.
- Lester E. Reukema, Deceased. Engineering: 1928.
- Lynn RiggsLynn RiggsRollie Lynn Riggs was an author, poet and playwright born on a farm near Claremore, Oklahoma. His mother was 1/8 Cherokee, and when he was two years old, his mother secured his Cherokee allotment for him. He was able to draw on his allotment to help support his writing...
, Deceased. Drama: 1928. - Rachel Sargent Robinson, Deceased. Classics: 1928. Appointed as Sargent, Rachel L.
- Rodney Potter Robinson, Deceased. Classics: 1928.
- Homer William Smith, Deceased. Biology: 1928, 1930.
- Roland Mitchell Smith, Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1928, 1929.
- Antonio García Solalinde, Deceased. Spanish: 1928.
- Doris Spiegel, Graphic Artist, Englewood, New Jersey; 1928.
- Robert Ernest Spiller, Deceased. American Literature: 1928.
- Carl StephensonCarl Stephenson (historian)Carl Stephenson at the time of his death was regarded as one of America's foremost medieval scholars. He was a student of Charles Gross and Charles Homer Haskins at Harvard University , later studied with Henri Pirenne at the University of Ghent and had close scholarly ties with other well known...
, Deceased. Medieval History: 1928. - Warren Kidwell Stratman-Thomas, Deceased. Medicine: 1928, 1929.
- Otto StruveOtto StruveOtto Struve was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve ; however, he spent most of his life and his entire scientific career in the United States...
, Deceased. Astronomy-Astrophycis: 1928. - Allen TateAllen TateJohn Orley Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.-Life:...
, Deceased. Poetry: 1928, 1929. - Raymond Turner, Deceased . Fine Arts - Sculpture: 1928.
- Eric Derwent WalrondEric D. WalrondEric Derwent Walrond was an African-American Harlem Renaissance writer, who made a lasting contribution to literature; his work still being in print today as a classic of its era...
, Deceased. Fiction: 1928, 1929. - William Weldon Watson, Deceased. Physics: 1928.
- Helen Constance White, Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1928, 1930.
- Louis Booker WrightLouis Booker WrightLouis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian.Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.-Publications:Wright, Louis B. The Colonial...
, Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1928, 1929.
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- Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...