Seventy-seven artists and scholars, including 13 women, received fellowships,[1] which added up to $4,500,000 in $2,500 increments. Cuban fellows were elected for the first time.
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Art | Drama and Performance Arts | [2] | ||||
| Creative writing | [3] [4] | |||||
| Fiction | Pseudonym: Stanley Vestal. Also won in 1930. | [5] | ||||
| Writing | [6] | |||||
| Also won in 1938 | [7] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Mural painting | [8] | ||||
| Painting | [9] | |||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1930 | |||||
| Painting | [10] | |||||
| Painting | [11] | |||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1943 | |||||
| Sculpture | [12] | |||||
| Painting | ||||||
| Painting | ||||||
| Painting | Also won in 1936 | [13] | ||||
| Etching | ||||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1931, 1974 | [14] | |||
| Poetry | Writing | [15] | ||||
| [16] [17] | ||||||
| [18] | ||||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Industrial Revolution in the Yorkshire woolen and worsted industries | [19] | |||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | ||||||
| Biography | [20] | |||||
| Economic History | Volume 2: History of the woolen industry in England | [21] [22] | ||||
| Transition occurring in China from agriculture and household industries to modern manufacturing | [23] [24] | |||||
| Mexican oil industry, the social control set up by the state, economic consequences of this program, and the future of the industry | [25] | |||||
| Education | Workers' education projects of Western Europe | |||||
| English Literature | [26] | |||||
| Washington University in St. Louis | Influence of English voyages from 1600 to 1660 on science and imaginative literature | [27] | ||||
| Metaphysical element in English literature of the first half of the 17th century | [28] | |||||
| Fine Arts Research | Pre-Spanish art in the southern countries of the North American continent | Also won in 1930 | [29] | |||
| Romanesque sculpture of the Roussillon, with special reference to the sculpture from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines and the origins of the style of the 11th century | [30] | |||||
| Also won in 1927 | ||||||
| French Literature | French romantic poetry | |||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain | Also won in 1939 | [31] | |||
| Literary Criticism | Also won in 1929 | |||||
| Medieval Literature | ||||||
| Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain | Also won in 1929, 1938 | [32] [33] | ||||
| Also won in 1929 | [34] | |||||
| Also won in 1925 | [35] | |||||
| Music Research | New Music Quarterly | Materials used in extra-European musical systems | ||||
| History of music | Also won in 1930 | |||||
| Philosophy | Architecture of Continental cathedrals and Oriental mosques | [36] | ||||
| Religion | Comparative study of Jewish and Christian ethics in the 1st and 2nd centuries | |||||
| Russian History | Christian Science Monitor | Also won in 1934 | [37] | |||
| United States History | British investment in the United States, 1830-1860 | Also won in 1930 | [38] | |||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | |||||
| [39] | ||||||
| Chemistry | [40] | |||||
| Thermal chemistry of organic compounds | ||||||
| Thomas Erwin Phipps, Sr. | Also won in 1930 | |||||
| [41] | ||||||
| Earth Science | [42] | |||||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | Effects of Spanish colonization on native Indian land systems and population groupings | [43] [44] | ||||
| Medicine and Health | Also won in 1930 | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | [45] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | ||||||
| Chemistry of growth in certain domestic animals | Also won in 1929 | |||||
| [46] | ||||||
| Life history of certain parasitic worms | [47] [48] | |||||
| Physics | Effect of magnetic fields on the emission of spectrum lines | |||||
| Raman spectra and molecular structure | [49] | |||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Also won in 1930 | ||||
| Inca and pre-Inca textile collections in Peru | ||||||
| Economics | Social movements accompanying the industrialization of China, including an analysis of the labor supply of China, the labor movement, and use of boycotting as an economic and political weapon | |||||
| Sociology |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humanities | Economic History | Economic relationship between the United States and the Latin American Republics | [50] | ||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Relations of England and Spain as colonial powers in the 18th century | ||||||
| Also won in 1932, 1933 | |||||||
| Music Research | Musical theory | [51] | |||||
| Philosophy | Principal currents of philosophy in the United States | [52] | |||||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Metallurgy, with special reference to non-metallic metals and the methods and technique of geophysical exploration | |||||
| Mathematics | Academia de Guerra School of Military Engineering | ||||||
| Medicine and Health | Physiology of the ovary and of certain glands of internal secretion | [53] | |||||
| Ministry of Education (Mexico) | Rural sociology and economics; rural hygiene and public health | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Cytology and genetics | ||||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | |||||||
| Plant Sciences | Application of genetics to the improvement of plants | Also won in 1932 | |||||
| Social Science | Economics | [54] |