# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927

Sixty-three John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1927 to representatives of 22 states. $143,000 was disbursed.

## 1927 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Walter White | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Lynching in the United States | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Wesley Carroll | Art Students League of New York | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Samuel Vance Chamberlain | University of Michigan | Etching and drypoint | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Avard Fairbanks | University of Oregon | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Glen Amos Mitchell | | Painting | Also won in 1926 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Isamu Noguchi | | Sculpture | Also won in 1928 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dorothy Ochtman | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts Research | Ernest Theodore DeWald | Princeton University | Publication of manuscripts of Stuttgart Psalter and a catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts at the library in Einsiedeln, Switzerland | Also won in 1931 |
| Creative Arts | General Nonfiction | Nathaniel Peffer | New School for Social Research | Effects of industrialism and nationalist on the Far East | Also won in 1928 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roy Harris | | Composition | Also won in 1928, 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Carl McKinley | Capital Theatre | Composition | Also won in 1928 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Bernard Rogers | | Composition | Also won in 1928 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roger Sessions | | Composition | Also won in 1926 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Theodore J. Stearns | | Composition | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Stephen Vincent Benét | | Long narrative poem about the American Civil War | Also won in 1926 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Myron Bement Smith | | Italian brickwork of the Lombard period | Also won in 1928 |
| Humanities | British History | Frederick Charles Dietz | University of Illinois, Urbana | English government finance from 1558 to 1640 | |
| Humanities | British History | Judith Blow Williams | Wellesley College | Efforts, both of individuals and through concerted private and governmental action, to open markets for the products of the Industrial Revolution in England | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | Classics | Marion Elizabeth Blake | Converse College | Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy | Also won in 1929, 1953 |
| Humanities | Classics | William Jerome Wilson | State Normal School at Cheney | The Shepherd of Hermas | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ford Keeler Brown | St. John's College, Annapolis | Hannah More | Also won in 1929, 1930 |
| Humanities | English Literature | John William Draper | University of Maine | Bibliography of 18th century works on aesthetics and for origins of the "Graveyard School" of 18th century poetry in Great Britain | Also won in 1928 |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Andrew Rice, Jr. | University of Nebraska | Authorship of A Tale of a Tub | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Arthur Wellesley Secord | University of Illinois | Daniel Defoe | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Harold William Thompson | New York State College for Teachers | Biography | Also won in 1925 |
| Humanities | French History | E. Malcolm Carroll | Duke University | Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic | Also won in 1928 |
| Humanities | French History | Raphael Demos | Harvard University | Philosophy of evolution and social philosophy in France | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Fred G. Hoffherr | Columbia University | Preparation for the publication of the manuscript Victor Hugo's Journal d'Exil | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Frank Dunstone Graham | Princeton University | Commercial and industrial consequences of the rapid depreciation of the German and Polish monetary units of the post-war period | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Archer Taylor | University of Chicago | Methods used in folklore study for tracing the history of the popular ballad | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | J. Fred Rippy | Duke University | Latin America in world affairs | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Bernadotte Everly Schmitt | University of Chicago | Origins and responsibility for the World War | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Odell Shepard | Trinity College | Preparation of a book Romantic Solitude and for research in the history of the romantic movement | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Nicholas G.J. Ballanta | | Musical conceptions of African peoples and comparison to older musical systems of Europe | Also won in 1928 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ephraim Avigdor Speiser | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1926 |
| Humanities | South Asian Studies | Helen Moore Johnson | | Translation and commentary of Hemacandra's Loves of Sixty-three Famous Men | |
| Humanities | United States History | Frank Lawrence Owsley | Vanderbilt University | Certain phases of the relations of Europe and the Confederacy | |
| Humanities | United States History | Richard Joseph Purcell | Catholic University of America | Irish immigration to the United States from 1790 to the time of the American Civil War | |
| Humanities | United States History | George Malcolm Stephenson | University of Minnesota | History of Swedish immigration to the United States | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Wallace R. Brode | Bureau of Standards | Absorption spectra of aniline dyes | Also won in 1926 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | George Ernest Gibson | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of band spectra | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Linus Pauling | California Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1926, 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lloyd Hilton Reyerson | University of Minnesota | Contact catalysis | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Philip Franklin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Integral equations, orthogonal functions, and their relation to almost periodic functions | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Harry Shultz Vandiver | University of Texas, Austin | Fermat's Last Theorem and the laws of reciprocity in the theory of algebraic numbers | Also won in 1930 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | William Ruthrauff Amberson | University of Pennsylvania | Mechanisms involved in the electrical stimulation of nerve and music | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward Frederick Adolph | University of Rochester | Internal factors that control the size of organisms, particularly during growth | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Ralph Erskine Cleland | Goucher College | Chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose, as related to certain genetical problems | Also won in 1928 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Lewis Victor Heilbrunn | University of Michigan | Colloid chemistry of protoplasm | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Edwin Blake Payson | University of Wyoming | Taxonomy in relation to generic phylogenies | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Carl Eckart | California Institute of Technology | New quantum theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William Vermillion Houston | California Institute of Technology | Recent developments in quantum mechanics as applied to the explanation of spectra | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Frank C. Hoyt | University of Chicago | Quantum theory and its meaning for radiation and atomic structure | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Victor F. Lenzen | University of California, Berkeley | Statistical mechanics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Manuel Sandoval Vallarta | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Connection between Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Jay Walter Woodrow | Iowa State College | Phosphorescent, chemiluminescencent and photoelectric properties of cod liver oil and other substances which either have anti-rachitic characteristics or can be activated by treatment with ultra-violet light | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Richard Bradfield | University of Missouri | Principles involved in the purification of colloids by electrodialysis | Also won in 1928 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | William Henry Eyster | University of Maine | Physiology of the chloroplastid pigments | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Rodney Beecher Harvey | University of Minnesota | Low temperature effects on plants | Also won in 1928 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | James Penrose Harland | University of Cincinnati | Civilizations of the Bronze Age in and around Greece | Also won in 1927 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Mollie Ray Carroll | Goucher College | Present-day system of unemployment insurance in Germany | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Roger Hewes Wells (de) | Bryn Mawr College | Preparation of the book Municipal Government in the German Commonwealth | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Leonard Dupee White | University of Chicago | Trade unions and professional organizations in the public service of Great Britain | Also won in 1928 |