Two hundred and seventy scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1962. More than $1,410,000 was disbursed.
1962 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Evan Shelby Connell Writing John C. Hawkes Brown University Edward Lewis Wallant McCann Erickson Thomas Alonzo Williams, Jr. University of New Hampshire Clara Brussel Winston Richard Yates Also won in 1980 Fine Arts John Burton Interviewing glassmaking experts Richard Howard Hunt University of Illinois Sculpture Victor George Kord University of Illinois Painting Rico Lebrun Painting Also won in 1935, 1937 Bruno Lucchesi The New School for Social Research Ezio Martinelli Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons School of Design Sculpture Also won in 1958 M. Dean Richardson Rhode Island School of Design Seymour Rosofsky Wright Junior College, Art Institute of Chicago Painting Also won in 1963 Whitney Lee Savage Benton Murdoch Spruance Beaver College, Philadelphia College Museum of Arts Printmaking Also won in 1950 Ann Steinbrocker James Stephen Strombotne University of California, Riverside Painting Ansei Uchima Sarah Lawrence College Printmaking Also won in 1970 Hiram D. Williams University of Florida James N. Wines Sculpture Music Composition John C. Eaton University of Chicago Composing Also won in 1965 John Huggler Also won in 1969 John Herbert McDowell Robert Walter Moevs Harvard University Gunther A. Schuller Also won in 1963 Ezra Sims John Nathaniel Vincent, Jr. University of California, Los Angeles Stefan Wolpe Long Island University Also won in 1970 Photography Lee Friedlander Changing American scene Also won in 1960, 1977 Geraldine Sharpe Certain social groups Poetry Denise Levertov Writing Galway Kinnell Also won in 1974 Edward Charles O'Gorman Columbia University Also won in 1956 Louis Simpson University of California, Berkeley Also won in 1970 Humanities American Literature Ihab Habib Hassan Wesleyan University Irrational strain in Western literature Also won in 1958 John Fairbanks Lynen University of Illinois Time as a structural principle in the works of certain American authors Ellen Moers Blake Reynolds Nevius University of California, Los Angeles Comparative study of the novels and critical writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, and Henry James Donald Pizer Newcomb College Critical study of novels of Frank Norris Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Lawrence College Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson Floyd C. Watkins Emory University Architecture, Design and Planning Robert Branner 13th-century Gothic architecture George R. Collins Ideas influencing the development of the city, 1880-1920 British History Philip P. Poirier Ohio State University East Asian Studies Immanuel C. Y. Hsu University of California, Santa Barbara Chinese-Russian relations between 1871 and 1881 Joseph Richmond Levenson University of California, Berkeley Confucian China and its modern fate Economic History Ellis Rivkin Hebrew Union College Role of Jews in the development of early capitalism English Literature Jerome Beaty Harold Bloom Yale University Robert C. Elliott Ohio State University Also won in 1971 Phillip Harth Northwestern University Religious and philosophical background of the poems of John Dryden Simeon Kahn Heninger, Jr. Duke University Influence of Pythagorean thought in the Renaissance Park Honan Connecticut College Prose style in the English novel Also won in 1975 Cyrus Henry Hoy Vanderbilt University Dramatic works of Thomas Dekker William Irvine Stanford University Critical biography of Robert Browning Also won in 1955 Lachlan Philip Kelley Definitive edition of correspondence between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Also won in 1970 Francis Edward Mineka Cornell University Letters of John Stuart Mill William Riley Parker Indiana University Life and times of John Milton Miriam Kosh Starkman Queens College, City University of New York Robert Henry Super University of Michigan Also won in 1970 Paul Noden West Memorial University of Newfoundland, Pennsylvania State University Fine Arts Research James Holderbaum Smith College 16th-century Italian painting and sculpture Homer Leonard Thomas University of Missouri Influence of Mediterranean civilizations on uncivilized cultures of Europe during the late Bronze and Iron Ages Folklore and Cultural Studies Américo Paredes University of Texas Bilingual and bicultural folklore in Mexico and the southwestern US Frank O. Spinney Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park Biography on Augustus Saint-Gaudens French History James Edward King University of North Carolina Origins and evolution of the concepts of welfare in the modern Western world French Literature Brandeis University Contemporary French writing Emory University Aram Vartanian University of Minnesota German and Scandinavian Literature Stefán Einarsson Johns Hopkins University Primitivism and Christian influence in Old Icelandic literature University of Oregon Stage history of Goethe's plays Also won in 1971 William Henry Rey University of Washington Life and works of Arthur Schnitzler Oskar Seidlin Ohio State University Also won in 1976 University of California, Berkeley 17th-century German literary manuscripts Jack Madison Stein Harvard University Relation between text and musical setting in German songs of the 18th and 19th centuries Also won in 1954 General Nonfiction Richard S. Allen Covered bridges of the American south and midwest German and East European History Wayne State University Balkan revolutionary tradition Michigan State University Germany's war aims and occupation policies in World War II Gunther Erich Rothenberg Southern Illinois University History of the Austrian military border in Croatia and Slavonia during the 19th century History of Science and Technology William Harris Stahl Brooklyn College History of science in the Latin West during the late Roman Empire and early Middle Ages Robert Smith Woodbury Massachusetts Institute of Technology Iberian and Latin American History Stanley George Payne University of Minnesota Italian Literature Donald Selwyn Carne-Ross University of Texas Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso Ernst Pulgram University of Michigan Also won in 1954 Charles S. Singleton Johns Hopkins University Dante's Divine Comedy Also won in 1954, 1950 Linguistics William Stewart Cornyn Yale University Henry R. Kahane University of Illinois Linguistic history Also won in 1955 Literary Criticism Richard Volney Chase Columbia University Also won in 1947 Tom F. Driver Union Theological Seminary Martin Greenberg New School for Social Research Franz Kafka Harrison Mosher Hayford Northwestern University Works of Herman Melville Edwin Honig Brown University Also won in 1948 Morton Dauwen Zabel University of Chicago Biographical and critical studies of Joseph Conrad and Henrik Ibsen Also won in 1944 Medieval History Smith College Medieval Literature Robert Payson Creed Brown University Richard Hamilton Green Johns Hopkins University Poetic theory by the 14th-century Italian humanists Nicholas M. Haring Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Also won in 1958 Charles Muscatine University of California Style of medieval poetry Paul A. Olson University of Nebraska Canterbury Tales as setting forth the 14th-century concept of a good society Barry Ulanov Barnard College, Columbia University Music Research Richard Franko Goldman Princeton University Nature and function of music in the middle of the 20th century Carleen M. Hutchins Quality of tone in musical instruments of the violin family Also won in 1959 Carol Cook MacClintock Southern Illinois University Life and works of Giaches de Wert Leonard Gilbert Ratner Stanford University Musical form of the Viennese Classic period Robert M. Stevenson University of California, Los Angeles Spanish music in the Old and New Worlds during the Baroque period Near Eastern Studies Edmund Irwin Gordon Harvard University Anne Draffkorn Kilmer University of Chicago Lexical texts of ancient Mesopotamia Also won in 1961 Moses Zucker Jewish Theological Seminary of America Philosophy David Braybrooke Yale University Indiana University Writings of G. E. Moore University of California, Los Angeles Philosophy of history John R. Silber University of Texas Nature of human acts and responsibility Marcus George Singer University of Wisconsin Moral problems and moral philosophy Robert Paul Ziff University of Pennsylvania Relationship between feelings and behavior Religion Ford Lewis Battles Hartford Seminary Foundation Ecumenical foundations of the Reformation Schubert Miles Ogden Southern Methodist University Russian History Columbia University Theodore H. Von Laue University of California, Riverside Also won in 1974 South Asian Studies Knight Biggerstaff Cornell University China during the 19th and 20th centuries Spanish and Portuguese Literature José Rubia Barcia University of California, Los Angeles Works of Ramon del Valle Inclan University of Illinois Francisco de Quevedo's The Politics of God George Haley University of Chicago Spanish poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries University of Wisconsin 18th-century Spanish literature Theatre Arts Herbert Blau San Francisco State College Theater in relation to contemporary cultural history Also won in 1977 Barnard Hewitt University of Illinois Stephen Price Louis Sheaffer Biography of Eugene O'Neill Also won in 1959, 1969 Alexander William Szögyi Hunter College United States History Carl Bridenbaugh University of California, Berkeley American people in the colonial period Also won in 1958, 1968 Forrest McDonald Brown University Bradford Perkins University of California, Los Angeles Relations between the United States and England, 1812-1823 Merrill D. Peterson Brandeis University Hugh Franklin Rankin Tulane University British military strategy in the American Revolution Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Karl Thomas Aust General Electric Research Laboratory Sol R. Bodner Brown University Walter Freiberger Brown University David Gale Brown University Also won in 1981 Fritz John New York University Also won in 1969 Ralph David Kodis Harvard University, Brown University Cornelius Thomas Leondes University of California, Los Angeles Theory of modern advanced control systems Eric Reissner Massachusetts Institute of Technology Derivation of two-dimensional theories of thin elastic shells from equations of three-dimensional elasticity Fred L. Ribe Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Processes in high temperature laboratory plasmas and their applications to astrophysical problems Astronomy and Astrophysics George Whipple Clark Massachusetts Institute of Technology Properties of primary cosmic gamma rays and of neutrons associated with solar disturbances Frank Norman Edmonds, Jr. University of Texas Stellar atmospheres and analysis of spectral lines Paul J Kellogg University of Minnesota Generation and propagation of waves in the Earth's exosphere Massachusetts Institute of Technology Galactic structure Also won in 1973 George Cunliffe McVittie University of Illinois Predictions of theoretical models of the universe Also won in 1970 Forrest S. Mozer The Aerospace Corporation Physics Laboratory Atmospheric physics Chemistry Henry Ernest Baumgarten University of Nebraska Molecular structure of small-ring compounds Charles DuBois Coryell Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear energetics Lawrence Joseph Heidt Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar energy conversion Noah R. Johnson, Jr. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nuclear spectroscopy Kenneth David Kopple University of Chicago Synthesis of peptides for use in investigations of chemical phenomena of biological importance Isadore Perlman University of California, Berkeley Nuclear spectroscopy Also won in 1955 Donald Turner Sawyer, Jr. University of California, Riverside Harold Abraham Scheraga Cornell University Interactions between the side chains of proteins Also won in 1956 R. Mar