# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1937

Sixty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1937.

## 1937 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Robert Ardrey | University of Chicago | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Robert Turney | | Playwriting | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Frederic Prokosch | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ahron Ben-Shmuel | | Sculpture | Also won in 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Aaron Bohrod | | Painting | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jon Corbino | | Painting | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lu Duble | Bennett School | Sculpture | Also won in 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William Gropper | | Drawing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | George Grosz | | Painting | Also won in 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Josette Hébert-Coëffin | | | Also won in 1939 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Joe Jones | | Painting: Conditions of the Dust Bowl | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rico Lebrun | Art Students League | | Also won in 1935, 1962 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ross Lee Finney | Smith College | Composition | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dante Fiorillo [de] | | Composition | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Guyn McBride | Bennington College | Composition | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Edward Weston | | Photographic satire in the West | Also won in 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Sterling Allen Brown | Howard University | Long narrative poem | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Harold Lewis Cook | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Sonia Raiziss Giop | Girls' High School | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jesse Hilton Stuart | Greenup County High School | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | Stewart Chaney [it] | | Research in Europe | |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | Mordecai Gorelik | | Influence of scientific techniques upon methods of stage design | Also won in 1935 |
| Humanities | British History | Holden Furber | | Consolidation of British power in India | |
| Humanities | Classics | Charles Farwell Edson, Jr. | | Historical geography and epigraphy of ancient Macedonia | Also won in 1936, 1956 |
| Humanities | Classics | Ernst Levy | University of Washington (visiting) | Development of Roman law in the western part of the empire during its decline | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford | University of Texas | | Also won in 1929, 1957 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Lucy Driscoll | University of Chicago | Chinese art | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Kaj Klitgaard | | Through the American Landscape (published 1941) | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Carl Schuster | | | Also won in 1938 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Zora Neale Hurston | | Practice of obeah | Also won in 1936 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Max Norton | | History of Socialist-Communist, Liberal-Democratic, Nationalist-Patriotic, and reactionary movements during the last 150 years | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Donald Culross Peattie | | Robert Owen's New Harmony experiment | Also won in 1936 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Richard Palmer Blackmur | | Henry Adams | Also won in 1938 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | John Life La Monte | University of Cincinnati | Biographical and genealogical catalogue of the Crusader states | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Dorothy Bethurum | Lawrence College | Old and early Middle English homilies | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Anselm Strittmatter | Saint Anselm's Priory | History of Christian life and thought | Also won in 1932 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Samuel Noah Kramer | University of Chicago | History of Sumerian culture from 2000 BC | Also won in 1938, 1961 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Paul Weiss | Bryn Mawr College | Foundations of ethics in the light of modern logic and metaphysics | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Donald Cary Williams | University of California | Analysis and theory of knowledge | |
| Humanities | United States History | Edward Deming Andrews | | History on the religious arts of the Shakers | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ronold W. P. King | Lafayette College | Research in Germany | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Willem Jacob Luyten | University of Minnesota | Stars in the southern hemisphere | Also won in 1928, 1929 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lawrence Olin Brockway | California Institute of Technology | Molecular studies of certain heavy metal carbonyls | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Charles Henry Behre, Jr [de] | Northwestern University | Comparative study of zinc-lead deposits | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Aaron Clement Waters [de] | Stanford University | Comparative study of metamorphic rock | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Allan Lyle Grafflin | Harvard University | Functional and cytological studies of the mammalian and human kidney | Also won in 1934 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Samuel Robert Means Reynolds | Long Island College of Medicine | Nature of the motility-stimulating action of Oestrin upon uterine muscles | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eric Glendinning Ball | Johns Hopkins University | Mechanism of biological oxidations | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Clouser Boyd | Boston University | Blood groups among people in southwestern Asia | Also won in 1935, 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Florence Barbara Seibert | Henry Phipps Institute | Research with Theodor Svedberg | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Herbert Shapiro | Princeton University | Nerve activity at low oxygen pressures | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | James Batcheller Sumner | Cornell University | Research with Theodor Svedberg | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sydney William Britton | University of Virginia | Comparative study of tropical animals with those native to Virginia | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Whitfield Deluz Hamlett | United States Biological Survey | Embryology and reproductive cycles of various mammals | Also won in 1936 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Louis Straus, Jr | Johns Hopkins University | Embryological development of muscle function | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Hans Mueller | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Structure and properties of liquids | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Melville J. Herskovits | Northwestern University | Primitive economics | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Frank Whitson Fetter | | Theories of money, banking, and international finance in England, 1800-1870 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Earl Jefferson Hamilton | Duke University | 17th-century managed currency experiment of John Law | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Ralph Droz Casey | University of Minnesota | Political party propaganda campaigns | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Harwood Lawrence Childs | Princeton University | Historical study of labor and capital in German politics | Also won in 1946 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Donald Keith Adams [ca; pt] | Duke University | Formulation of a theory of the changes in the structure of the mind that constitute mental development | |

## 1937 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Andrés Henestrosa | National University of Mexico | Significance of Zapotecan culture | Also won in 1936 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Carlos Graef Fernández | National Autonomous University of Mexico | | Also won in 1938, 1939 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Joaquín Luco Valenzuela [es] | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | Physiology, especially the action of certain drugs on smooth muscle | Also won in 1938, 1957, 1968 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Alberto Marsal | National University of Córdoba | | Also won in 1938 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Enrique Savino | National Department of Hygiene (Argentina) | | Also won in 1935, 1936 |
| Natural Science | 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 1938, 1954 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Santos Soriano | University of Buenos Aires | Microbiological studies in artificial production of bacterial variations | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Alfredo Baños, Jr. | National University of Mexico | Physical nature of dielectric constant and of the conductivity of dielectrics | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1957 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Carlos García Robiou | University of Havana | Cuban prehistory | Also won in 1938 |
| Social Sciences | Law | Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado | National University of Mexico | Comparative study of the systems of forced labor in the Spanish and English colonies of North America | Also won in 1939 |