Sixty Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1936, bringing the total number of recipients to 525.[1] The Guggenheim family donated an additional $1,000,000 to the Foundation, increasing the scholarship pool to $6,000,000.[2]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Playwriting | ||||
| Also won in 1937 | ||||||
| Fiction | Writing | [3] | ||||
| [4] | ||||||
| Fine Arts | Painting | Also won in 1932 | [5] | |||
| Also won in 1937 | ||||||
| Also won in 1937 | [6] | |||||
| Also won in 1932 | [7] | |||||
| Graphic images from cultures around the world arranged by subject rather than region | Also won in 1931 | [8] | ||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1932 | [9] | ||||
| Dangers of the working and living environments of coal and steel workers | [10] | |||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1935 | |||||
| Music Composition | Composition | Also won in 1935, 1937, 1938 | [11] | |||
| Poetry | Writing | |||||
| [12] | ||||||
| [13] | ||||||
| [14] | ||||||
| Also won in 1934 | ||||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Volume of unpublished plays | Also won in 1938, 1965 | [15] | ||
| Reevaluation of Henry James' novels and a study of their literary relations | [16] | |||||
| Architecture, Planning, and Design | Western European and Soviet housing | [17] | ||||
| Bibliography | Short-title list, with locations of all books published in Great Britain or in English from 1641 to 1700 | [18] | ||||
| Biography | Also won in 1945 | [19] | ||||
| British History | Also won in 1945, 1953, 1960 | |||||
| Classics | Egyptian religions | |||||
| Also won in 1937, 1956 | ||||||
| Economic History | Migration of the British capital, 1875-1914 | |||||
| English Literature | History of English biography and autobiography of the 18th century | [20] | ||||
| French Literature | Critical edition of Chretien de Troyes' Erec and Enide | |||||
| French History | Reinterpretation of the theories and policies of 18th-century enlightened despotism as a stage in European history | Also won in 1939, 1946, 1959 | ||||
| [21] | ||||||
| Life of Louis XVI of France as a symbol of declining civilization | [22] | |||||
| General Nonfiction | Also won in 1937 | [23] | ||||
| Also won in 1937 | ||||||
| [24] | ||||||
| Literary Criticism | Interpretation of English literature since 1890 with reference to the influence of social change upon literature | [25] [26] | ||||
| Medieval Literature | English law and literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | Also won in 1930 | [27] | |||
| Music Research | 17th- and 18th-century chamber music | [28] | ||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | [29] | |||||
| United States History | Intellectual history of New England to the middle of the 18th century | |||||
| [30] | ||||||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Organic molecules | [31] | |||
| Mathematics | ||||||
| Theory of linear representation in abstract spaces | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | 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 | [32] | |||
| Also won in 1934 | [33] | |||||
| Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital | Disease-producing fungi of North and South America | Also won in 1935 | [34] | |||
| Honey bees | [35] [36] | |||||
| Bacterial fixation of nitrogen (with Marjory Stephenson) | [37] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Biological photo-sensitization | Also won in 1945, 1953 | [38] | |||
| United States Biological Survey | Embryology and the reproductive cycles of various South American mammals | Also won in 1937 | [39] | |||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Institutional economics | Also won in 1935, 1943, 1953 | [40] | ||
| Law | Business taxation | |||||
| Political Science | Postwar politics and other conditions in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and Malay States | Also won in 1957, 1959 | [41] | |||
| Psychology | European functional psychology | [42] | ||||
| Sociology | Psychological adjustment of German and Austrian women |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Significance of Zapotecan culture | Also won in 1937 | [43] | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Also won in 1935 | [44] | |||
| Medicine and Health | Also won in 1935, 1937 | [45] | ||||
| Hospital Manuel Arriarán | Infectious diseases especially as related to pediatrics | [46] | ||||
| Physics | Physical nature of dielectric constant and the conductivity of dielectrics | Also won in 1935, 1937, 1957 | [47] |