# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931

Seventy-seven artists and scholars, including 13 women, received fellowships, which added up to $4,500,000 in $2,500 increments. Cuban fellows were elected for the first time.

## 1931 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Art | Drama and Performance Arts | Emjo Basshe | | | |
| Creative Art | Drama and Performance Arts | Kate Clugston | | Creative writing | |
| Creative Art | Fiction | Walter Stanley Campbell | University of Oklahoma | Biography of Sitting Bull | Pseudonym: Stanley Vestal. Also won in 1930. |
| Creative Art | Fiction | Maurice Hindus | | Writing | |
| Creative Art | Fiction | Katherine Anne Porter | | Writing | Also won in 1938 |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Emil Bisttram | | Mural painting | |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Alexander Brook | | Painting | |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Harold Cash | | Sculpture | Also won in 1930 |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Harry Gottlieb | | Painting | |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Marsden Hartley | | Painting | |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Oronzio Maldarelli | | Sculpture | Also won in 1943 |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Reuben Nakian | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Joseph Pollet | | Painting | |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Ione Robinson | | Painting | |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Doris Rosenthal | Columbia Teachers College | Painting | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Art | Fine Arts | Alexander Raoul Stavenitz | | Etching | |
| Creative Art | Music Composition | Otto Luening | | Composing | Also won in 1931, 1974 |
| Creative Art | Poetry | Hart Crane | | Writing | |
| Creative Art | Poetry | John Crowe Ransom | Vanderbilt University | Writing | |
| Creative Art | Poetry | Genevieve Taggard | Mt. Holyoke College | Writing | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Harry Hayden Clark | University of Wisconsin | Industrial Revolution in the Yorkshire woolen and worsted industries | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Cecil Clair Briggs | | Architectural restoration of the Acropolis of Athens | |
| Humanities | Biography | Carleton Beals | | Porfirio Diaz | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Herbert Heaton | University of Minnesota | Volume 2: History of the woolen industry in England | |
| Humanities | Economic History | John Ewing Orchard | Columbia University | Transition occurring in China from agriculture and household industries to modern manufacturing | |
| Humanities | Economic History | George Ward Stocking | University of Texas | Mexican oil industry, the social control set up by the state, economic consequences of this program, and the future of the industry | |
| Humanities | Education | William Edward Zeuch | Commonwealth College | Workers' education projects of Western Europe | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Whitfield Baldwin | University of Illinois | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | George Bruner Parks | Washington University in St. Louis | Influence of English voyages from 1600 to 1660 on science and imaginative literature | |
| Humanities | English Literature | George William Williamson | University of Oregon | Metaphysical element in English literature of the first half of the 17th century | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Anita Brenner | | Pre-Spanish art in the southern countries of the North American continent | Also won in 1930 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Francis Henry Taylor | Pennsylvania Museum of Art | Romanesque sculpture of the Roussillon, with special reference to the sculpture from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines and the origins of the style of the 11th century | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Ernest Theodore DeWald | Princeton University | Stuttgart Psalter | Also won in 1927 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Salomon Alhadef Rhodes | City College of New York | French romantic poetry | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Lesley Byrd Simpson (de) | University of California | Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | John Van Horne | University of Illinois | Bernardo de Balbuena | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Erika von Erhardt-Siebold | Mt. Holyoke College | Edition of the Latin Anglo-Saxon riddles | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Jacob Hammer | Hunter College | Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain | Also won in 1929, 1938 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Leslie W. Jones | City College of New York | Script of Tours | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Clark Harris Slover | University of Texas | Channels which were available for the transmission of literature and tradition from Ireland to Great Britain before the Arthurian Romances | Also won in 1925 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Henry Dixon Cowell | New Music Quarterly | Materials used in extra-European musical systems | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Roy Dickinson Welch | Smith College | History of music | Also won in 1930 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Helen Huss Parkhurst | Barnard College | Architecture of Continental cathedrals and Oriental mosques | |
| Humanities | Religion | Harvie Branscomb | Duke University | Comparative study of Jewish and Christian ethics in the 1st and 2nd centuries | |
| Humanities | Russian History | William Henry Chamberlin | Christian Science Monitor | History of the Russian Revolution from the downfall of Tsarism to the adoption of the New Economic Policy | Also won in 1934 |
| Humanities | United States History | Reginald C. McGrane | University of Cincinnati | British investment in the United States, 1830-1860 | Also won in 1930 |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Gustav C. Dahl | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | European practices in electric power transmission | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Lydik S. Jacobsen | Stanford University | Earthquake-resistant flexible building materials | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Ermon Dwight Eastman | University of California | Structure and properties of atomic nuclei | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Sutton Parks | Stanford University | Thermal chemistry of organic compounds | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr. | University of Illinois | | Also won in 1930 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Scatchard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Theories of liquid solution | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Walter Scott Adkins | University of Texas | | |
| Natural Science | Geography and Environmental Studies | Carl O. Sauer | University of California | Effects of Spanish colonization on native Indian land systems and population groupings | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Edward Lee Howes | Yale University | | Also won in 1930 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur H. Steinhaus | Central YMCA College | Physiology of exercise | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Hilario Atanacio Roxas | University of the Philippines | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Samuel Brody | University of Missouri | Chemistry of growth in certain domestic animals | Also won in 1929 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Mary Stuart MacDougall | Agnes Scott College | Effects of ultraviolet radiation upon protozoa | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Horace Wesley Stunkard (de)(fr) | New York University | Life history of certain parasitic worms | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Jerome Boley Green | Ohio State University | Effect of magnetic fields on the emission of spectrum lines | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Jens Rud Nielsen | California Institute of Technology | Raman spectra and molecular structure | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Henry DeWolf Smyth | Princeton University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ruth L. Bunzel | Columbia University | Indian backgrounds of the Mexican Nation | Also won in 1930 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Lila Morris O'Neale | University of California | Inca and pre-Inca textile collections in Peru | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Dorothy Johnson Orchard | | Social movements accompanying the industrialization of China, including an analysis of the labor supply of China, the labor movement, and use of boycotting as an economic and political weapon | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Joseph Fulling Fishman | New York City Department of Correction | Conditions in jails in the United States | |

## 1931 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Humanities | Economic History | Jorge Roa y Reyes | University of Havana | Economic relationship between the United States and the Latin American Republics | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Vera Lee Brown | Smith College | Relations of England and Spain as colonial powers in the 18th century | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Herminio Portell Vilá | University of Havana | Historical relationship between Cuba and the United States, with particular attention to the question of annexation | Also won in 1932, 1933 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Augusto Novaro (it) | | Musical theory | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Homero Mario Guglielmini | National University of the Littoral | Principal currents of philosophy in the United States | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Tomás Barrera y Arenas | National University of Mexico | Metallurgy, with special reference to non-metallic metals and the methods and technique of geophysical exploration | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Genaro Moreno García-Conde | Academia de Guerra School of Military Engineering | Mathematical research, especially in the theory of functions of real variables | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Eduardo Bunster Montero | University of Chile | Physiology of the ovary and of certain glands of internal secretion | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Guillermo Montaño Islas | Ministry of Education (Mexico) | Rural sociology and economics; rural hygiene and public health | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Salomón Horovitz | University of Buenos Aires | Cytology and genetics | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Carlos Guillermo Aguayo y Castro | University of Havana | Taxonomic studies in the fields of malacology and entomology | |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | Manuel Elgueta Guérin | Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura | Application of genetics to the improvement of plants | Also won in 1932 |
| Social Science | Economics | Carlos García Mata | Department of Finance and Public Works, Province of Santa Fe | Methods of predicting economic phenomena | |