Fifty-nine fellowships were awarded to artists and scholars from more than 20 states and 16 previous winners had their fellowships extended.[1] [2] [3] $173,000 was disbursed.
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Theater and drama of Continental Europe for the purpose of gaining technical training | Also won in 1929 | [4] | ||
| Work on what would later become Green Grow the Lilacs | [5] | |||||
| Fiction | Writing | Also won in 1929 | [6] | |||
| Fine Arts | Painting | [7] | ||||
| Etching and painting | [8] [9] | |||||
| Also won in 1927 | ||||||
| Painting | [10] [11] | |||||
| Drawing and painting, and to make a special study of street types in France and Italy | [12] | |||||
| Sculpture | [13] | |||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1929 | [14] [15] | |||
| Also won in 1927, 1976 | ||||||
| Epic symphony about the life and era of Napoleon I and to work on an opera based on Bret Harte's The Bellringer of Angels | Also won in 1929 | |||||
| Also won in 1927 | ||||||
| Also won in 1927 | ||||||
| Poetry | Poetry writing and tarnslation of François Villon's lyrics Also won in 1929 | [16] [17] | ||||
| Narrative poems and the libretto for an opera | [18] [19] | |||||
| Also won in 1929 | [20] [21] | |||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Writings of James Fennimore Cooper and other studies in the influence of English and other European cultures on the earliest period of American literature in London | [22] [23] | |||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | Drawings of the restorations of the French Romanesque Churches the Abbey Church in Cluny, the Church of St. Mary in Tours, and the Church of St. Martial at Limoges | Also won in 1926, 1929, 1930, 1954 | [24] [25] | |||
| Brick and stonework | Also won in 1927 | [26] [27] | ||||
| British History | Henry Pelham, emphasizing Pelham's part in the administration of Walpole and the significance in English history of his own ministry from 1743 to 1754 | [28] [29] | ||||
| Classics | Social and economic life of Ancient Greece, especially slavery | [30] [31] | ||||
| [32] | ||||||
| English Literature | Graveyard School of 18th century poetry | Also won in 1927 | ||||
| Preparation of a complete text edition of the Letters of Robert Burns, re-edited from the original manuscripts | [33] [34] | |||||
| Compiling and editing for publication a volume of the uncollected letters of Robert Browning | [35] | |||||
| The imagist and related movements in poetry | [36] | |||||
| [37] | ||||||
| Preparation of a corrected edition of S. T. Coleridge's lectures and marginalia on Shakespeare and other literary remains | Also won in 1926 | [38] | ||||
| Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th century England | Also won in 1930 | [39] | ||||
| Reflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642 | Also won in 1929 | [40] | ||||
| French History | Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic | Also won in 1927 | [41] | |||
| Career and influence of General Lafayette, specifically on the several revolutionary movements with which he was connected | Also won in 1954 | [42] [43] | ||||
| French Literature | Quaker and Quaker ideas in French Literature with particular reference to the eighteenth century | [44] | ||||
| General Nonfiction | The Baltimore Sun | Also won in 1929 | [45] [46] | |||
| Old and established Eastern civilizations of the impact of industrialism and nationalism, the two principal products of the West brought to the East | Also won in 1927 | [47] [48] | ||||
| Medieval Literature | History of medieval theories of rhetoric | Also won in 1956 | [49] | |||
| Historical and legal literature of ancient Ireland | Also won in 1929 | [50] | ||||
| Medieval History | Preparing for publication of a volume of studies in municipal history | [51] | ||||
| Music Research | Musical conception of the African peoples and a comparison of that conception with the older systems of music in Europe | Also won in 1927 | [52] [53] [54] | |||
| Philosophy | Also won in 1929, 1953 | [55] | ||||
| Religion | Preparation of critical editions of the texts of St. Athanasius of Alexandria De Incarnatione and of Titus of Bostra Contra Manichaeo | Also won in 1929 | [56] [57] | |||
| Renaissance History | [58] | |||||
| South Asian Studies | Jainism, with special emphasis on the study of the legends and history centering around the saga Kalaka as preserve in Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, of the texts themselves, and of the art of the paintings illustrating certain manuscripts of these texts | |||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Life in Madrid during the 18th century | [59] | ||||
| United States History | Norwegian immigration to the United States | [60] | ||||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Photographing of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope to compare these plates with similar plates taken between 1896 and 1905 | Also won in 1929, 1937 | [61] | ||
| Chemistry | [62] | |||||
| [63] | ||||||
| Earth Science | American earthquakes | Also won in 1952 | [64] | |||
| Engineering | Electric discharge in gases at high frequencies and the breakdown of solid insulating materials under high electric stress | |||||
| Mathematics | Also won in 1929 | [65] | ||||
| Medicine and Health | Reactions of the intestinal cells of the central nervous system and related subjects | |||||
| [66] [67] | ||||||
| Quantitative studies on human muscle tonus with special reference to the relation of tonus measurements to electromyography | [68] | |||||
| Therapeutic value of six new arsenical compounds in the chemo-therapy of sleeping sickness in animals and men | Also won in 1929 | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Chromosome constitution and behavior in the evening primroses in relation to certain genetical problems | Also won in 1927 | [69] | |||
| Central American reptiles and amphibians, and salamanders of the Ambystomidae family | ||||||
| University of Minnesota | Physiological studies of the chemical senses of insects | [70] | ||||
| Also won in 1930 | [71] [72] [73] | |||||
| Physics | Spectra of oxygen and nitrogen | |||||
| Establishment of a consistent theory of radiation | Also won in 1929 | [74] | ||||
| Thermomagnetic properties of gaseous molecules by a new method of convective flow with the view of studying their structure and spatial quantitization | [75] | |||||
| [76] | ||||||
| Structure of molecules and the nature of chemical reactions in gases | [77] [78] | |||||
| Plant Science | Also won in 1927 | [79] | ||||
| Winter hardiness of plans of northern Russia | Also won in 1927 | |||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Primitive peoples of Sumatra and adjacent western islands | ||||
| [80] | ||||||
| Economics | Also won in 1929 | |||||
| Economic readjustment in Germany during the period from 1920 to 1927 | [81] | |||||
| Political Science | Also won in 1927 |