# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1930

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

## 1930 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Ellsworth Prouty Conkle | University of Delaware | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Walter Stanley Campbell | University of Oklahoma | Biography of Sitting Bull | Also won in 1931 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jonathan Worth Daniels | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Helen Rose Hull | Columbia University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Nella Larsen Imes | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jacques G. Le Clercq | Columbia University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Thomas Clayton Wolfe | Washington Square College | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Pamela Bianco | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Harold Cash | | Sculpture | Also won in 1931 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mordi Gassner | | Mural painting | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Thomas Handforth | | Etching | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Arthur Lee | Art Students League of New York | Classic European sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Monty Lewis | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sidney Loeb | | Sculpture | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | E. Bruce Moore | University of Wichita | Sculpture | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Archibald John Motley, Jr. | | Painting | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Francis R. White | | Gothic glassmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Carl Bricken | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ruth Porter Crawford | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert M. Delaney | | Composing | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Otto Luening | | Composing | Also won in 1931, 1974 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Quincy Porter | | Composing | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Randall Thompson | Wellesley College | Composing | Also won in 1929 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mark Wessel | | Composing | Also won in 1932 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Edward Davison | | Preparation for an epic poem | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | H. Phelps Putnam | | Writing | |
| 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 |
| Humanities | 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 | |
| Humanities | British History | Viola Florence Barnes | Mt. Holyoke College | England's colonial policy, particularly in relation to Massachusetts | |
| Humanities | British History | Charles Harris Wesley | Howard University | Negro slavery apprenticeship in the British West Indies between 1807 and 1838 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Ben Edwin Perry | University of Illinois | Life of Aesop | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Owen Lattimore | | Present conditions in Manchuria and Chinese Turkistan and their historical and geographical background | Also won in 1932 |
| Humanities | Economics History | Paul Schuster Taylor | University of California | Socio-economic aspects of the emigration of Mexicans to the United States | |
| Humanities | 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 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Neilson Campbell Hannay | Boston University | Biography of William Cowper and known letters | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Leslie Hotson | New York University | Systematic searches for new material for writing the lives of Elizabethan poets and dramatists | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Henry Donaldson Jordan | Dartmouth College | English newspaper press, 1853-1865 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Eleanore Boswell | University of London | History of Restoration theatre | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Helen Constance White | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th-century England | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | 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 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Thomas Temple Hoopes | New York University | History of firearms from their invention to the introduction of automatic manufacturing machinery | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Clarence Kennedy | Smith College | Study of Desiderio da Settignano | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy | | Monograph on Alesso Baldovinetti | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Henri Maurice Peyre | Yale University | Louis Ménard | |
| Humanities | German and Eastern European History | Brynjolf Jakob Hovde | University of Pittsburgh | Social and economic conditions in Scandinavia, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | John Tate Lanning | Duke University | Universities of the Hispanic colonies of the New World | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Mary M. Colum | | Contemporary American and French ideas of criticism | Also won in 1938 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Joseph Wood Krutch | The Nation | Aesthetics | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Blanche Beatrice Boyer | Mt. Holyoke College | Latin manuscripts written in minuscule of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon script | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Sister Mary Aquinas Devlin | Rosary College | Thomas Brunton's life, sermons, and influence | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Richard Ager Newhall | Williams College | Military and financial phases of the latter part of the Hundred Years' War | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Josiah Cox Russell | New Mexico Normal University | Biographical data of the manuscripts of certain Latin authors and 13th-century England | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | John Webster Spargo | Northwestern University | Medieval legends about Virgil | Also won in 1936 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Eugene Hugh Byrne | University of Wisconsin | Commercial custom and practice in the Middle Ages | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Roy Dickinson Welch | Smith College | Relation of musical art to general culture and social history | Also won in 1931 |
| Humanities | 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 | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | John Daniel Wild | Harvard University | Philosophical works of George Berkeley | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | 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 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Hyman Chonon Berkowitz | University of Wisconsin | Benito Pérez Galdós and his contribution to Spanish life and letters | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Frederick Courtney Tarr (de) | Princeton University | Origin and development of the Articulos de costumbre | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | United States History | Reginald C. McGrane | University of Cincinnati | British investment in the United States, 1830-1860 | Also won in 1931 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr. | University of Illinois | Problems in the field of molecular rays | Also won in 1931 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Evald Laurids Skau | Trinity College | Purification of organic compounds | |
| Natural Sciences | 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 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Harry Shultz Vandiver | University of Texas, Austin | Theory of algebraic numbers | Also won in 1930 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Edward Lee Howes | Yale University | Problems of wound healing | Also won in 1931 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Eric Oldberg | Peter Bent Brigham Hospital | | |
| Natural Sciences | 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 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Simon Freed | University of California | Magnetic and spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules in the crystalline state | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Grollman | Johns Hopkins University | Physical chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | 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 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Clarence Eugene Mickel | University of Minnesota | Life and habits of parasitical wasps | |
| 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 | Plant Science | Carroll William Dodge | Harvard University | Completion of lichen flora in Costa Rica | Also won in 1929 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Thomas H. Goodspeed | University of California | Monographic treatment of the genus Nicotiana | Also won in 1935, 1956 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ruth L. Bunzel | Barnard College | Indian backgrounds of the Mexican nation | Also won in 1931 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Paul Howard Douglas | University of Chicago | Movement of real wages in Europe, 1900-1930 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Mordecai Ezekiel | Bureau of Agricultural Economics | Methods used by governmental agencies in leading European countries in regulating, directing and controlling economic activities | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | 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 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Katharine Snodgrass | Stanford University | Economics of food substitution, specifically the displacement of dairy fats by vegetable fats in Northern Europe | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | John Paul Nafe | Clark University | Validity of the "quantitative" theory of sensory feelings | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Carroll C. Pratt | Harvard University | Expressive properties of musical structure by means of methods being developed by the Gestalt psychologists | |
| Social Sciences | 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 | |

## 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 | | |
| Medicine and Health | Arturo Rosenblueth Stearns | National University of Mexico | Physiology and biochemistry | | |