# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1932

Fifty-seven scholars and artists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1932.

## 1932 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Martha Graham | Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre | Native dances from Mexico and Yucatán | Also won in 1943, 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Louis Adamic | | Industrial and sociological research | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Caroline Gordon Tate | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Evelyn Scott | | Novel concerned with the influence of the post-war attitude of 'disillusion' on a romantic woman's temperament | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Benjamin Greenstein | | Drawing and painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Blume | | Painting | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Howard Norton Cook | | Etching, wood engraving, and lithography | Also won in 1934 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Andrew Dasburg | | Painting and study of contemporary Mexican Fresco painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mitchell Fields | | Sculpture | Also won in 1935 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ernest Fiene | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John B. Flannagan | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peppino Mangravite | Ethical Culture Fieldston School | Painting | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Salemme | | Sculpture | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George Antheil | | Composing | Also won in 1933 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Adolph Weiss | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mark Wessel | | Composing | Also won in 1930 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | H. L. Davis | | Historical-dramatic poem, giving an account of the earliest pioneer settlements in the Northwest | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | George Dillon | | Writing | Also won in 1933 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Lewis Mumford | | Completion of a book on form | Also won in 1938, 1956 |
| Humanities | Biography | Howard Mumford Jones | University of Michigan | Thomas Moore as representative of "regency" taste in literature | Also won in 1935, 1964 |
| Humanities | Classics | Levi Arnold Post (de) | Haverford College | Text tradition of Plato's Laws | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Owen Lattimore | | | Also won in 1930 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Norman Lewis Torrey | Yale University | Biography of Voltaire | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Edwin Hermann Zeydel | University of Cincinnati | Ludwig Tieck | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Frank Tannenbaum | | Comparative studies of agriculture in Peru and Argentina | Also won in 1934 |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | J. Frank Dobie | University of Texas | Collection of tales told by Mexicans in Northern Mexico and preparation of a book that reflects the character and history both of these people and their country | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Fulmer Mood | Harvard University; Radcliffe College | History of American Colonial ideas | Also won in 1934 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Anselm Strittmatter | St. Anselm's Priory; Trinity Washington University | History of church worship | Also won in 1937 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Earl Morse Wilbur | Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry | History of the Socinianism-Unitarian movement as a movement toward freedom, reason and tolerance in religion | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | F. S. C. Northrop | Yale University | Determination of the nature of mathematical and logical form | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Isaac Goldberg | Harvard University | Modern literature of Spanish and Portuguese America | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Arturo Torres-Rioseco | University of California | Spanish-American novel | Also won in 1928 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Herbert Orion Calvery | University of Michigan Medical School | Embryonic protein metabolism with special reference to the chemistry of ovalbumin and ovovitellin and the time of the appearance of the proteolytic enzymes in the developing chick embryo | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Theodore William Richards | Princeton University | Application of the method of statistics and quantum mechanics to surface phenomena | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Oliver Reynolds Wulf | U.S. Department of Agriculture | | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Samuel Gelfan | University of Alberta | Nature of the submaximal contractions of the single muscle fiber | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Hermann Joseph Muller | University of Texas | Problems concerning the mechanism of mutation and evolution and the nature of the genre, with particular reference to certain results concerning mutation | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Karl Patterson Schmidt | The Field Museum | Amphibians and reptiles of upper Central America | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Francis Arthur Jenkins | University of California | Measurement and interpretation of intensities in band spectra | Also won in 1947, 1958 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Sanderson Mulliken | | | Also won in 1932 |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | Ivan Murray Johnston | Arnold Arboretum | Problem of dispersal of plants in the Western Hemisphere and the manner in which plants in the Western United States were transferred to Central America | |

## 1932 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Humanities | American Literature | Julio Fingerit | Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires | Contemporary literature in the United States | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Fernando Devilat Rocca | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Architecture of hospitals and organization of hospital services in the United States | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Ángel Guido | National University of the Littoral | Architecture and city planning in the United States | |
| Humanities | Education | Aída Laso Correa | University of Chile | Organization of educational guidance and students' welfare in certain universities in the United States | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Herminio Portell Vilá | University of Havana | Cuba–United States relations | Also won in 1931, 1933 |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Nicanor Alurralde | Argentine State Railway | Problems of railway engineering and management in the United States | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Donato G. Alarcón Martínez (es) | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Treatment of tuberculosis | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Juan Farill y Solares | Department of Public Health, Mexico | Clinical theory and practice of orthopedics with special reference to the nonsurgical treatment of deformities in children | Also won in 1933 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Enrique Beltrán | | | Also won in 1933 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Tomás Leandro Marini | Department of Agriculture, Argentina | Marine biology, oceanography, and pisciculture in the United States | |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | Manuel Elgueta Guérin | Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura | Theoretical genetics and application of genetics to the improvement of plants | Also won in 1930 |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | José A. Nolla | | Inheritance of disease resistance in tobacco | Also won in 1933 |