# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1936

Sixty Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1936, bringing the total number of recipients to 525. The Guggenheim family donated an additional $1,000,000 to the Foundation, increasing the scholarship pool to $6,000,000.

## 1936 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Leopold Atlas [de] | | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Albert Bein | | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Robert Turney | | Playwriting | Also won in 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James Thomas Farrell | University of Chicago | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Josephine Herbst | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Blume | | Painting | Also won in 1932 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Aaron Bohrod | | Painting | Also won in 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jon Corbino | | Painting | Also won in 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peppino Mangravite | Sarah Lawrence College | Painting | Also won in 1932 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Doris Rosenthal | New York Public Schools | Graphic images from cultures around the world arranged by subject rather than region | Also won in 1931 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Salemme | | Sculpture | Also won in 1932 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Harry Sternberg | | Dangers of the working and living environments of coal and steel workers | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Carl Walters | | Sculpture | Also won in 1935 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dante Fiorillo [de] | | Composition | Also won in 1935, 1937, 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Edward Doro | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kenneth Flexner Fearing | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jacob Hauser | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kenneth Patchen | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Isidor Schneider | | Writing | Also won in 1934 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Joseph Leon Edel | Havas News Agency | Volume of unpublished plays | Also won in 1938, 1965 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Morris Roberts | | Reevaluation of Henry James' novels and a study of their literary relations | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning, and Design | Catherine Krouse Bauer | American Federation of Labor | Western European and Soviet housing | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Donald Goddard Wing | Yale University | Short-title list, with locations of all books published in Great Britain or in English from 1641 to 1700 | |
| Humanities | Biography | John Edwin Bakeless | Sarah Lawrence College | Christopher Marlowe | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | British History | Garrett Mattingly | Long Island University | Catherine of Aragon with special reference to her influence on English foreign policy, on the development of English humanism, and on the course of the English Reformation under Henry VIII | Also won in 1945, 1953, 1960 |
| Humanities | Classics | Thomas A. Brady | University of Missouri, Columbia | Egyptian religions | |
| Humanities | Classics | Charles Farwell Edson, Jr. | | History of ancient Macedonia | Also won in 1937, 1956 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Leland Hamilton Jenks | Wellesley College | Migration of the British capital, 1875-1914 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald Alfred Stauffer | Princeton University | History of English biography and autobiography of the 18th century | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Jean Paul Misrahi | Columbia University | Critical edition of Chretien de Troyes' Erec and Enide | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Pierre Robert Vigneron | University of Chicago | Physiological and critical study of the life of Marie Henri Beyle | |
| Humanities | French History | Leo Gershoy | Long Island University | Reinterpretation of the theories and policies of 18th-century enlightened despotism as a stage in European history | Also won in 1939, 1946, 1959 |
| Humanities | French History | Donald Malcolm Greer | | Biography of Paul Barras | |
| Humanities | French History | Saul K. Padover | University of California | Life of Louis XVI of France as a symbol of declining civilization | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Zora Neale Hurston | | Practice of obeah | Also won in 1937 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Donald Culross Peattie | | Robert Owen's New Harmony experiment | Also won in 1937 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Glanville Wynkoop Smith | | History of the West Indies | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Granville Hicks | | Interpretation of English literature since 1890 with reference to the influence of social change upon literature | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | John Webster Spargo | Northwestern University | English law and literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | Also won in 1930 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick | | 17th- and 18th-century chamber music | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Irving A. Leonard | University of California | Cultural and intellectual history of Colonial Spanish America | |
| Humanities | United States History | Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller | Harvard University | Intellectual history of New England to the middle of the 18th century | |
| Humanities | United States History | Ernest Staples Osgood | University of Minnesota | History of Montana | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Willard Wheland | California Institute of Technology | Organic molecules | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Solomon Gandz | | | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Marshall Harvey Stone | Harvard University | Theory of linear representation in abstract spaces | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | James Thomas Culbertson | Columbia University | Humoral and cellular immunological phenomena in the mechanism underlying the immunity against parasitic diseases, particularly the protozoan and helminthic infestations of man | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Michael Heidelberger | Columbia University | | Also won in 1934 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Morris Moore | Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital | Disease-producing fungi of North and South America | Also won in 1935 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lloyd Raymond Watson | Alfred University | Honey bees | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Perry William Wilson | University of Wisconsin | Bacterial fixation of nitrogen (with Marjory Stephenson) | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Harold Francis Blum | University of California | Biological photo-sensitization | Also won in 1945, 1953 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Whitfield Deluz Hamlett | United States Biological Survey | Embryology and the reproductive cycles of various South American mammals | Also won in 1937 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Abram Lincoln Harris | | Institutional economics | Also won in 1935, 1943, 1953 |
| Social Sciences | Law | Alexander Nahum Sack | New York University | Business taxation | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Lennox Algernon Mills | University of Minnesota | Postwar politics and other conditions in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and Malay States | Also won in 1957, 1959 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Donald McLean Purdy | University of Maine | European functional psychology | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Clifford Kirkpatrick [fr] | University of Minnesota | Psychological adjustment of German and Austrian women | |

## 1936 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 1937 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Pedro J. Bermúdez Hernández | | | Also won in 1935 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Enrique Savino | | | Also won in 1935, 1937 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Adalberto Steeger Schaeffer | Hospital Manuel Arriarán | Infectious diseases especially as related to pediatrics | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Alfredo Baños, Jr. | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Physical nature of dielectric constant and the conductivity of dielectrics | Also won in 1935, 1937, 1957 |