# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1934

Forty scholars and artists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1934.

## 1934 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Angna Enters | | Ancient Greek art forms | Also won in 1935 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Leonard Ehrlich (de) | | Writing | Also won in 1933 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Albert Halper | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Younghill Kang | | Writing | Also won in 1933 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Alexander Laing | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | George Milburn | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Tom Tippett | | Certain aspects of the coal industry in the United States | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peggy Bacon | | Book of caricatures, Off With Their Heads! | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Howard Norton Cook | | Mural painting | Also won in 1933 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Francis Criss | | Fresco painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Maurice Glickman | | Sculptor | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rosella Hartman | | Lithography | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Mechau | | Painting | Also won in 1935, 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Douglas Stuart Moore | Columbia University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William Grant Still | | Composing | Also won in 1935, 1938 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Conrad Aiken | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kay Boyle | | Writing | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Isidor Schneider | | Writing | Also won in 1936 |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | Norris Houghton | | Dramatic arts | Also won in 1935, 1960 |
| Humanities | Classics | Sterling Dow | Harvard University | Athenian public documents | Also won in 1959, 1966 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Howard F. Lowry | College of Wooster | Lives and works of Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Geoffroy Atkinson (de) | Amherst College | French Renaissance | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl | New York University | Islamic ceramics | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Frank Tannenbaum | | Agrarian problems in Peru and Argentina | Also won in 1932 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | J. N. Douglas Bush | University of Minnesota | English poetry | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Fulmer Mood | | Early American colonization | Also won in 1932 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Ernest Nagel | Columbia University | Mathematics | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | Russian History | William Henry Chamberlin | | Russian Revolution, 1917-1921 | Also won in 1931 |
| Humanities | United States History | Grace Lee Nute | Hamline University; Minnesota Historical Society | Biography of Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Francis William Bergstrom | Stanford University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Frank Harold Spedding | University of California | Heterocyclic compounds containing nitrogen | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Arnold Dresden | Swarthmore College | Calculus of variations | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Allan Lyle Grafflin | Harvard University | | Also won in 1937 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | George Oswald Burr | University of Minnesota | Photosynthesis | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Michael Heidelberger | Columbia University | Molecular weight of thyroglobulin | Also won in 1936 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Harold Kirby, Jr. | University of California, Berkeley | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Kenneth Bainbridge | Harvard University | | Also won in 1933 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Bigham Brode | University of California | Collisions of electrons with atoms | |

## 1934 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Atilio Macchiavello Varas | Sanitary Inspection Service, Chile; Chilean Antiplague Service | Preventitive medicine and public health, particularly problems of typhus in Chile | Also won in 1935 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Alfonso Dampf Tenson | Ministry of Agriculture, Mexico | Simuliidae of Central and South America in relation to the transmission of onchocercosis | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Luis Hugo Howell Rivero | University of Havana | West Indian fish | Also won in 1935 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ramón Enrique Gaviola | University of Buenos Aires | Photochemistry | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alfredo Barrera Vásquez | National University of Mexico | Translation of the Chilam Balam and Maya linguistics | Also won in 1933 |