# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1938

Fifty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1938.

## 1938 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Arthur Arent | Federal Theatre Project | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | August William Derleth | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Clifford Shirley Dowdey | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Katherine Anne Porter | | Writing | Also won in 1931 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Richard Wright | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ahron Ben-Shmuel | | Sculpture | Also won in 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Janet de Coux | | Sculpture | Also won in 1939 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lu Duble | | Sculpture | Also won in 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Fredenthal | Cranbrook Academy of Art | Painting | Also won in 1939 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | George Grosz | Sterne-Grosz art school | Painting | Also won in 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rosella Hartman | | Painting | Also won in 1934 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Mechau | | Mural paintings of Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco | Also won in 1934, 1935 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Creston | St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church | Composition | Also won in 1939 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | David Diamond | | Composition | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dante Fiorillo [de] | | Composition | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William Grant Still | | Composition | Also won in 1934, 1935 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Edward Weston | | Western United States | Also won in 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Asher Brynes | | Writing | Also won in 1939, 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Rolfe Humphries | Woodmere Academy | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre | University of California, Los Angeles | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | Samuel Selden | University of North Carolina | Basic design in the directing of plays | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Joseph Leon Edel | Havas | Edition of Henry James' unpublished plays | Also won in 1936, 1965 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Lewis Mumford | | Completion of a book on Form by the addition of material obtained firsthand in Europe | Also won in 1932, 1956 |
| Humanities | Classics | Faith Thompson | University of Minnesota | Constitutional history | |
| Humanities | Classics | Virginia Randolph Grace | | Dates and places of manufacture of earthware jars in the Mediterranean basin during the period of classical antiquity as the basis for a history of the commerce of the region during that period | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Marvin Chauncey Ross | Walters Art Museum | Byzantine enamels | Also won in 1939, 1948, 1952 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Carl Schuster | Pennsylvania Museum of Art | Chinese folk art | Also won in 1937 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Josef Berger | Federal Writers' Project | Tall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England ports | Also won in 1946. Pseudonym: Digges, Jeremiah. |
| Humanities | German and East European History | O. Fritiof Ander | Augustana College | History of Sweden since 1815 | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Richard Palmer Blackmur | | Life and works of Henry Adams | Also won in 1937 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Mary M. Colum | | Ideas that have made modern literature | Also won in 1930 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Peter Alexis Boodberg | University of California, Berkeley | Reconstruction of archaic Chinese and studies of cultural interactions between China and Central Asia | Also won in 1955, 1963 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Allen Walker Read | University of Chicago | Dictionary of "Briticisms" | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Jacob Hammer | Hunter College | Definite text of Geoffrey of Monmouth's history of Britain | Also won in 1929, 1931 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Frederick M. Salter | Northeast Experimental Junior College | Edition of the Chester Craft Plays and a monograph of its history | |
| Humanities | United States History | Foster Rhea Dulles | | Recreational activities in America from the colonial period until modern times, with an interpretation of changing trends in popular use of leisure time | |
| Humanities | United States History | Walter Prescott Webb | University of Texas | Relationship between democratic government and an open frontier | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Maurice Ewing | Lehigh University | Geophysical investigations of oceanic basins by gravitational and seismic methods | Also won in 1953, 1955 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Earl Hamlet Myers | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Life cycles of Foraminifera, with special reference to the role of these organisms in the sea and their significance in geological formations | Also won in 1939 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Adolf Pabst | University of California, Berkeley | Orientation of minerals in granitic rock; silicate crystal structure | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | D. H. Lehmer | Lehigh University | Analytic theory of numbers, especially in connection with the arithmetical theory of elliptic modular functions | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Henry N. Harkins | | Surgical and trauma shock, particularly as seen in burns | Also won in 1939, 1965 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alfred George Marshak | New England Deaconess Hospital | Mechanism of chromosome division | Also won in 1939 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Emil L. Smith | Columbia University | Chlorophyll-protein complex | Also won in 1939 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Myron Gordon | | Analysis of the evolutionary process in the development of Mexican platyfish | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Clyde E. Keeler | Harvard Medical School | Book on genetics in relation to medicine | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Arthur Loveridge | Harvard University | Ecological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rainforest remnants in East Africa | Also won in 1933 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Colin Campbell Sanborn | Field Museum | Taxonomic revision of six families of bats | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Jack Henry Sandground | Harvard University Medical School | Comparative parasitology, chiefly in the Dutch East Indies | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Tom Wilkerson Bonner | Rice Institute | Nuclear physics | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Samuel Abraham Goudsmit | University of Michigan | Recent developments of the theory of nuclear structure | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Alden Springer Crafts | University of California, Davis | Anatomical and physiological study of plants | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Philip Alexander Munz | Pomona College | Onagraceae in South America | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Sherburne Friend Cook | University of California, Berkeley | Biological influence of the influx of Western European civilization on the indigenous population of Spanish America | Also won in 1947 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alfred Métraux | University of California, Bishop Museum | Gran Chaco aboriginal population | Also won in 1940 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Lloyd K. Garrison | University of Wisconsin School of Law | British labor legislation | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Charles Rumford Walker | | Influence of radical political movements in the U.S. since 1917 | |

## 1938 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Leopoldo Méndez | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Daniel Serra Badué | | | Also won in 1939 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Carlos Chávez | | Composition | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Carlos Graef Fernández | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Theory of probability and mathematical theory of statistics | Also won in 1937, 1939 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Joaquín Maass y Patiño | Juárez Hospital | Clinical studies in neurosurgery | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Conrado Federico Asenjo | University of Puerto Rico | Systematic study of the chemical composition and active principles of the medicinal and poisonous plants of the West Indies | Also won in 1937, 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Pedro Martínez-Esteve | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba | Physiology of reproduction | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Carlos Muñoz Pizarro | Universidad de Chile | Systematic botany, with special relations to native Chilean forage plants | Also won in 1939 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Carlos García Robiou | Universidad de La Habana | Cuban prehistory | Also won in 1937 |