# 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. $173,000 was disbursed.

## 1928 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| 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 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Lynn Riggs | | Work on what would later become Green Grow the Lilacs | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Eric Derwent Walrond | | Writing | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Anthony Angarola | Kansas City Art Institute | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William Auerbach-Levy | Educational Alliance | Etching and painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Isamu Noguchi | University of California | | Also won in 1927 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eliot O'Hara | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Doris Spiegel | | Drawing and painting, and to make a special study of street types in France and Italy | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Raymond Turner | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Russell Bennett | | Composing | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roy Harris | University of California | Composing | Also won in 1927, 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | 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 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Carl McKinley | | | Also won in 1927 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Bernard Rogers | | | Also won in 1927 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Léonie Adams | | Poetry writing and translation of François Villon's lyrics Also won in 1929 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Countee Cullen | | Narrative poems and the libretto for an opera | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Allen Tate | | | Also won in 1929 |
| 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 | |
| Humanities | 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 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Myron Bement Smith | Yale University | Brick and stonework | Also won in 1927 |
| Humanities | 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 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Rachel Louise Sargent | North Central College | Social and economic life of Ancient Greece, especially slavery | |
| Humanities | Classics | Rodney Potter Robinson | University of Cincinnati | Completion of Palaeographia Iberica by the late John Miller Burnham | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John William Draper | University of Maine | Graveyard School of 18th century poetry | Also won in 1927 |
| Humanities | English Literature | John DeLancey Ferguson | Ohio Wesleyan University | Preparation of a complete text edition of the Letters of Robert Burns, re-edited from the original manuscripts | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thurman Losson Hood | Harvard University | Compiling and editing for publication a volume of the uncollected letters of Robert Browning | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Glenn Arthur Hughes | University of Washington, Seattle | The imagist and related movements in poetry | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alan Dugald McKillop | Rice Institute | Samuel Richardson | |
| Humanities | English Literature | 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 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Helen Constance White | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th century England | Also won in 1930 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Louis Booker Wright | University of North Carolina | Reflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642 | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | French History | E. Malcolm Carroll | Duke University | Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic | Also won in 1927 |
| Humanities | French History | 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 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Edith Philips | Goucher College | Quaker and Quaker ideas in French Literature with particular reference to the eighteenth century | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Felix M. Morley | The Baltimore Sun | Operation of the League of Nations | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | 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 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Harry Caplan (de) | Cornell University | History of medieval theories of rhetoric | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Roland Mitchell Smith | Wesleyan University | Historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Carl Stephenson | University of Wisconsin | Preparing for publication of a volume of studies in municipal history | |
| Humanities | 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 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Sidney Hook | New York University | | Also won in 1929, 1953 |
| Humanities | Religion | Robert Pierce Casey (de) | 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 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Albert Hyma | University of Michigan | The youth of Erasmus | |
| Humanities | 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 | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Charles Emil Kany (es) | University of California | Life in Madrid during the 18th century | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Antonio García Solalinde | University of Wisconsin | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Theodore C. Blegen | University of Minnesota | Norwegian immigration to the United States | |
| Humanities | United States History | Curtis Putnam Nettels | University of Wisconsin | | |
| 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 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Otto Struve | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | George Hopkins Coleman | University of Iowa | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Earl C. Gilbert | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Perry Byerly | University of California | American earthquakes | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | 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 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Olive C. Hazlett | | | Also won in 1929 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | William Vernon Cone | Columbia University | Reactions of the intestinal cells of the central nervous system and related subjects | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert Richard Dieterle | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | John Charnley McKinley | University of Minnesota | Quantitative studies on human muscle tonus with special reference to the relation of tonus measurements to electromyography | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | 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 |
| Natural Sciences | 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 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Emmett Reid Dunn | Smith College | Central American reptiles and amphibians, and salamanders of the Ambystomidae family | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Dwight Elmer Minnich | University of Minnesota; American Society of Zoologists | Physiological studies of the chemical senses of insects | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | 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 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John Joseph Hopfield | University of California | Spectra of oxygen and nitrogen | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Roy James Kennedy (de) | California Institute of Technology | Establishment of a consistent theory of radiation | Also won in 1929 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | 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 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Francis Wheeler Loomis | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William Weldon Watson | University of Chicago | Structure of molecules and the nature of chemical reactions in gases | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Richard Bradfield | | | Also won in 1927 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Rodney Beecher Harvey | University of Minnesota | Winter hardiness of plans of northern Russia | Also won in 1927 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Edwin Meyer Loeb | University of California | Primitive peoples of Sumatra and adjacent western islands | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Robert H. Pfeiffer | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lionel Danforth Edie | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1929 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Alvin Harvey Hansen | University of Minnesota | Economic readjustment in Germany during the period from 1920 to 1927 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Leonard Dupee White | | | Also won in 1927 |