Eighty-five Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1930, amounting to $200,000.[1] [2] The Latin-American Exchange Fellowships were introduced this year and brought two fellows to the United States to study.
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Writing | ||||
| Fiction | Also won in 1931 | |||||
| Writing | ||||||
| [3] | ||||||
| [4] | ||||||
| [5] | ||||||
| Fine Arts | Painting | [6] [7] | ||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1931 | [8] | ||||
| Mural painting | Also won in 1929 | [9] [10] | ||||
| Etching | [11] | |||||
| Classic European sculpture | [12] [13] | |||||
| Painting | ||||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1929 | [14] | ||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1929 | |||||
| Painting | Also won in 1929 | [15] [16] | ||||
| Gothic glassmaking | ||||||
| Music Composition | Composing | [17] [18] | ||||
| Also won in 1929 | [19] | |||||
| Also won in 1931, 1974 | ||||||
| Also won in 1929 | ||||||
| Also won in 1929 | ||||||
| Also won in 1932 | ||||||
| Poetry | [20] | |||||
| Writing | [21] | |||||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Restoration drawings of Cluny Abbey, the Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours, and the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, all Romanesque French churches | Also won in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1954 | [22] [23] | ||
| Bibliography | Methods past and present of producing printing in the outstanding presses of Central Europe and Great Britain; study of hand-printing and photographic composition; bibliography of books about books | [24] [25] | ||||
| British History | [26] | |||||
| Negro slavery apprenticeship in the British West Indies between 1807 and 1838 | ||||||
| Classics | Also won in 1954 | [27] | ||||
| East Asian Studies | Present conditions in Manchuria and Chinese Turkistan and their historical and geographical background | Also won in 1932 | [28] | |||
| Economics History | Socio-economic aspects of the emigration of Mexicans to the United States | |||||
| English Literature | Social aspects and influence of the English Evangelicals, 1798-1830 | Also won in 1927, 1930 | [29] | |||
| Biography of William Cowper and known letters | [30] | |||||
| Also won in 1929 | [31] [32] | |||||
| English newspaper press, 1853-1865 | [33] | |||||
| [34] | ||||||
| Mystical elements in the religious poetry of 17th-century England | Also won in 1929 | [35] | ||||
| Fine Arts Research | Also won in 1931 | |||||
| History of firearms from their invention to the introduction of automatic manufacturing machinery | [36] | |||||
| French Literature | ||||||
| German and Eastern European History | Social and economic conditions in Scandinavia, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries | [37] | ||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | ||||||
| Literary Criticism | Contemporary American and French ideas of criticism | Also won in 1938 | ||||
| The Nation | ||||||
| Medieval Literature | Latin manuscripts written in minuscule of the Irish and Anglo-Saxon script | Also won in 1929 | ||||
| Thomas Brunton's life, sermons, and influence | ||||||
| [38] | ||||||
| Biographical data of the manuscripts of certain Latin authors and 13th-century England | [39] | |||||
| Also won in 1936 | ||||||
| Medieval History | ||||||
| Music Research | Relation of musical art to general culture and social history | Also won in 1931 | [40] | |||
| Philosophy | Logic and scientific methodology in England and France; preparation for a systematic treatise on The Logic of Science | [41] | ||||
| Also won in 1956 | [42] | |||||
| Religion | Textual criticism of the New Testament and the discrimination of the textual families in Greek, Syriac and Armenian manuscripts of the New Testament | Also won in 1929 | [43] | |||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Benito Pérez Galdós and his contribution to Spanish life and letters | [44] | ||||
| Origin and development of the Articulos de costumbre | Also won in 1929 | [45] | ||||
| United States History | British investment in the United States, 1830-1860 | Also won in 1931 | [46] [47] | |||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr. | Problems in the field of molecular rays | Also won in 1931 | [48] | |
| Purification of organic compounds | ||||||
| Earth Science | Political and commercial policies regarding the development of mineral resources in the light of present knowledge of the character and extent of such resources | [49] | ||||
| Mathematics | Theory of algebraic numbers | Also won in 1930 | [50] | |||
| Medicine and Health | Also won in 1931 | |||||
| [51] | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Certain physiological disturbances and functional regeneration of the liver under various conditions of experimental and spontaneous injury | [52] | ||||
| Magnetic and spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules in the crystalline state | [53] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Reactions affecting the minute blood vessels of mammals | Also won in 1929 | [54] | |||
| Life and habits of parasitical wasps | [55] | |||||
| Also won in 1930 | [56] [57] | |||||
| Plant Science | Completion of lichen flora in Costa Rica | Also won in 1929 | [58] | |||
| Monographic treatment of the genus Nicotiana | Also won in 1935, 1956 | [59] | ||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Indian backgrounds of the Mexican nation | Also won in 1931 | |||
| Economics | Movement of real wages in Europe, 1900-1930 | [60] | ||||
| Methods used by governmental agencies in leading European countries in regulating, directing and controlling economic activities | [61] | |||||
| Movements in economic and social thought in relation to the British classical economics and the current development of institutional and statistical economics in America | [62] | |||||
| Economics of food substitution, specifically the displacement of dairy fats by vegetable fats in Northern Europe | [63] | |||||
| Psychology | Validity of the "quantitative" theory of sensory feelings | [64] | ||||
| [65] | ||||||
| Political Science | Asiatic nationalism viewed as a political expression of the cultural transformation due to the penetration of Euro-American culture into areas of different cultures | [66] |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | [67] | |||||
| Medicine and Health | Physiology and biochemistry |