# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1926

Thirty-seven scholars and artists across 18 states were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1926.

## Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Glen Amos Mitchell | | Group of paintings: religious and historical in character abroad | Also won in 1927 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Elizabeth Olds | | Portraiture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank H. Schwarz | | Mural decoration in Europe | |
| Creative Arts | Musical Composition | Aaron Copland | | Composition | Also won in 1925 |
| Creative Arts | Musical Composition | Leopold Mannes | | Composition | |
| Creative Arts | Musical Composition | Roger Sessions | Cleveland Institute of Music | Composition | Also won in 1927 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Stephen Vincent Benét | | Poetry and prose | Also won in 1927 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Kenneth John Conant | Harvard University | Authoritative set of drawings, being restorations of three Romanesque French churches | Also won in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1954 |
| Humanities | Biography | John Donald Wade | University of Georgia | Early history of Georgia and Alabama | |
| Humanities | British History | Violet Barbour | Vassar College | Sir George Downing | Also won in 1925 |
| Humanities | British History | Paul Knaplund (no) | University of Wisconsin | Monograph preparation on William Ewart Gladstone as a colonial statesman | |
| Humanities | Classics | Allen Brown West | Princeton University | Athenian empire | Also won in 1925 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Middleton Raysor | State College of Washington | New edition of Coleridge's literary criticism | Also won in 1928 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Hyder Edward Rollins | New York University | Studying and editing unpublished ballads of the Pepysian collection | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Schafer | University of Cincinnati | New edition of the works of Fulke Greville | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Isaac Fisher | | Danger trends in world race relations | Also won in 1925 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Walter Silz | Harvard University | Literature of Heinrich Von Kleist | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Warren Ault | Boston University | English local government | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | David S. Blondheim | Johns Hopkins University | Use of romance languages by the Jews | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ephraim Avigdor Speiser | University of Pennsylvania | Mitanni group of peoples in Northern Mesopotamia | Also won in 1927 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Ralph Monroe Eaton | Harvard University | Theory of knowledge in its relation to logic and metaphysics | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Marjorie Hope Nicolson | Goucher College | English 17th century thought | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Hallie Flanagan | Vassar College | Developments of the theater in Europe | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Wallace R. Brode | Bureau of Standards | Azo dyes | Also won in 1927 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Linus Pauling | California Institute of Technology | Theoretical and experimental research into the atom | Also won in 1927, 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ernest Preston Lane | University of Chicago | Comparative study of geometry | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ellis Bagley Stouffer | University of Kansas | Comparative study of differential geometry | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Norbert Wiener | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Bohr's almost periodic functions | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Julian Herman Lewis | University of Chicago | Fundamental nature of immunity phenomena | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Harold Myers Marvin | Yale Medical School | Cardiovascular physiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Royal Norton Chapman | University of Minnesota | Destructive pests | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Alfred E. Emerson | University of Pittsburgh | Origin of the caste of termites | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Franklin Pearce Reagan | University of California, Indiana University | Earliest blood vessels of mammalian embryos | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Arthur Compton | University of Chicago | Nature of radiation | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Edwin C. Kemble | Harvard University | New quantum theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ralph A. Sawyer | University of Michigan | Spectral series relations in extreme ultraviolet metallic spectra | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | James Penrose Harland | Harvard University | Ancient civilizations in Greece, Crete and Cyclades | Also won in 1927 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Gladys Reichard | Columbia University | Art style of Melanesia | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Alzada Comstock | Mount Holyoke College | League of Nations financial reconstruction work | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Glenn Thomas Trewartha | University of Wisconsin | Geographic investigations of Japan and China | Also won in 1943 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Herbert Feis | University of Cincinnati | French-brand German pre-war foreign investments | |
| Social Sciences | Religion | Roland Bainton | Yale Divinity School | Preparation of a book on religious tolerance | |
| Social Sciences | Religion | Kenneth James Saunders | Pacific School of Religion | Oriental religions | Also won in 1925 |