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! Category !! Field of Study !! Fellow !! Institutional association !! Research topic !! Notes !! class="unsortable"| Ref |
| Creative Arts | Musical Composition | Aaron Copland | | Composing | Also won in 1926 | [{{cite web|url=https://sites.uw.edu/prized/guggenheim-fellow/guggenheim-fellowship-award-tbd-years/|title=Guggenheim Fellowship (1925-1929)|publisher=University of Washington|access-date=2022-10-11}}][{{cite news|title=15 fellowships are awarded|newspaper=York Daily Record|location=York, Pennsylvania, USA|date=1925-06-02|page=3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119252710/york-daily-record/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-02-20}}] |
| rowspan="6" | Humanities | British History | Violet Barbour | Vassar College | Period of the Protectorate and the Restoration | Also won in 1926 | [{{cite news|title=Two professors on Vassar faculty sail for Europe for advanced study|newspaper=Poughkeepsie Eagle-News|location=Poughkeepsie, New York, USA|date=1925-06-06|page=3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119254499/poughkeepsie-eagle-news/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-02-20}}] |
| Classics | Allen Brown West | University of Pennsylvania | Tribute Records of the ancient Athenian Empire | Also won in 1926 | [{{cite news|title=Boston man chosen|newspaper=The Boston Globe|location=Boston, Massachusetts, USA|date=1925-06-01|page=2|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119254766/the-boston-globe/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-02-20}}] |
| English Literature | Harold William Thompson | New York State College for Teachers | Biography | Also won in 1927 | |
| General Nonfiction | Isaac Fisher | Fisk University | Interracial relations in the United States and abroad | Also won in 1926 | [{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-guggenheim-fellowships-20180405-htmlstory.html|title=Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announces new fellows|date=2018-04-05|last=Miranda|first=Carolina A.|publisher=LA Times|access-date=2022-10-11}}][{{cite news|title=Negro awarded Guggenheim Fellowship|newspaper=The Monitor|location=Omaha, Nebraska, USA|date=1925-06-26|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119252350/the-monitor/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-02-20}}] |
| Medieval Literature | Clark Harris Slover | University of Chicago | History of literature | Also won in 1931 | |
| Renaissance History | Merritt Yerkes Hughes | University of California | Literature of the Italian Renaissance and its effect on English literature of the 16th century | | [{{cite web|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/merritt-yerkes-hughes|title=Merritt Yerkes Hughes|publisher=Institute for Advanced Study|access-date=2022-10-11}}][{{cite news|title=Fellowships are awarded local educators|newspaper=The Peninsula Times Tribune|location=Palo Alto, California, USA|date=1925-06-01|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119255447/the-peninsula-times-tribune/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-02-20}}] |
| rowspan="5" | Natural Science | Chemistry | Gerhard Krohn Rollefson | University of California | Physical chemistry | | [{{cite web|url=https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/gerhard-krohn-rollefson|title=Gerhard Krohn Rollefson|date=2020-03-31|last1=Stewart|first1=T.D.|last2=Connick|first2=R.E.|last3=Powell|first3=R.E.|publisher=UC Berkeley|access-date=2022-10-11}}] |
| Mathematics | John Robert Kline | University of Pennsylvania | Analysis situs of three dimensions from a point set standpoint | | [{{cite news|title=European fellowship for Prof. John R. Kline|newspaper=The Morning Call|location=Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA|date=1925-06-11|page=5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119255042/the-morning-call/|via=newspapers.com|access-date=2023-02-20}}] |
| Medicine and Health | Edwin William Schultz | Leland Stanford Junior University | Processes by which bacteria are destroyed by various agencies | | |
| Neuroscience | Percival Bailey | Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School | Diseases of the nervous system | | [{{cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1925/6/1/in-the-graduate-schools-pdr-percival/|title=In the Graduate Schools|date=1925-06-01|publisher=The Crimson|access-date=2022-10-11}}] |
| Plant Sciences | Gordon Floyd Ferris | Leland Stanford Junior University | Scientific trip to Mexico, Central, and South America | | |
| rowspan="3" | Social Sciences | Political Science | Quincy Wright | University of Chicago | International law | | [{{cite journal|title=Fellowship for Professor Quincy Wright|date=1925|journal=The American Journal of International Law|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=19|number=3|pages=581–583|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2188893}}] |
| Psychology | Coleman Griffith | University of Illinois | Child psychology | | |
| Religion | Kenneth James Saunders | Pacific School of Religion | Oriental religions | Also won in 1926 | |