Sixty-nine Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1944, including thirteen women, the highest number of female recipients ever.[1] [2]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Modern dances | Also won in 1932, 1943 | [3] | ||
| Fiction | Stories based on mountain folklore | Also won in 1955 | [4] | |||
| [5] | ||||||
| Also won in 1959 | [6] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Sculpture | Also won in 1943 | [7] | |||
| Etching | [8] | |||||
| Painting | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| Music Composition | Music composition | Also won in 1956 | [9] | |||
| Also won in 1945 | [10] | |||||
| Also won in 1965 | [11] | |||||
| Also won in 1943 | ||||||
| Also won in 1943, 1950 | [12] | |||||
| Poetry | Verse drama of early California | [13] | ||||
| Police principles and the problem of peace | Also won in 1938, 1939 | [14] | ||||
| Also won in 1953 | [15] | |||||
| Humanities | American Literature | |||||
| [16] | ||||||
| Also won in 1943 | ||||||
| Also won in 1943 | [17] | |||||
| Also won in 1943 | ||||||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | City planning | |||||
| Biography | Period 1830-1865 New England, woven around the life of William Lloyd Garrison and covering the development of the anti-slavery movement | |||||
| British History | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| English Literature | ||||||
| John Milton at St. John's School (published 1948) | Also won in 1957 | [18] | ||||
| English women novelists of the 19th century to determine relationship between material and social environment and character of work | ||||||
| Film, Video and Radio Studies | Social, political, and artistic situation in postwar Germany | Also won in 1943, 1945 | [19] | |||
| Fine Arts Research | Also won in 1946 | |||||
| Also won in 1945 | ||||||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Musical literary companion to Francis James Child's English and Scottish popular ballads | Also won in 1943, 1948 | ||||
| French History | Also won in 1952 | |||||
| General Nonfiction | Functioning of organized religions as social institutions in the United States | Also won in 1941 | ||||
| Linguistics | ||||||
| Literary Criticism | Also won in 1962 | |||||
| Medieval Literature | Social structure and ethical teaching of the Middle Ages | [20] | ||||
| Music Research | Berkshire Music Center | Musical theory and the techniques of instrumental and choral conducting, and preparation of a book on the development of symphonic choruses | [21] | |||
| Philosophy | [22] | |||||
| Renaissance History | Also won in 1955 | [23] | ||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Also won in 1954 | |||||
| United States History | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| History of World War II from standpoints of both the home and military fronts | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | New methods of synthesis in organic chemistry | [24] | |||
| Earth Science | Search of fossil vertebraes in South America to obtain evidence on dates and position of prehistoric water barriers between American continents | |||||
| Mathematics | Algebraic geometry | Also won in 1952 | ||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Varietal differences in cultivated tomatoes | Also won in 1952 | ||||
| Also won in 1945, 1950 | ||||||
| Chemical basis of inflammation in wounds | [25] | |||||
| Also won in 1954 | [26] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Also won in 1945 | [27] | ||||
| Development of teeth in the evolutionary line leading from ancestral fish to mammals | Also won in 1943 | |||||
| Records of banded birds to benefit conservation efforts | Also won in 1947 | |||||
| Causal factors involved in the embryonic development of vertebrates | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| Plant Science | Ecology and taxonomy of the deciduous forest | Also won in 1943 | ||||
| Phytogeographical relationship between the highlands of Mexico and the Southern Appalachian Mountains | Also won in 1945 | [28] | ||||
| Cornell University (visiting) | Mechanism of virus reproduction | [29] | ||||
| Origins of corn | [30] | |||||
| Social Science | Economics | [31] | ||||
| Political Science | Also won in 1946 | |||||
| Psychology | Form and meaning in Cervantes' Don Quixote and Persiles | |||||
| Also won in 1945 | ||||||
| Sociology | Demobilization problems in Allied Nations and Germany |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | [32] | ||||
| Also won in 1943, 1945, 1953, 1964 | [33] | |||||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Also won in 1945 | [34] | |||
| United States History | ||||||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Theoretical astrophysics | Also won in 1945, 1958 | |||
| Chemistry | ||||||
| Mathematics | ||||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | [35] | |||||
| Comparative anatomy | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| Plant Sciences | Plant disease fungi | Also won in 1945 | ||||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Also won in 1943 | [36] | |||
| Law |