Ninety-six Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1945. More than 36 additional awards were postservice fellowships given to artists and scholars unable to apply in previous years due to the war.
1945 Post-Service Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Branch/service Civilian institution Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fine Arts Donald Whitney Burns Painting: Oil industry's part in World War II Adolph Dioda Sculpture Frank Davenport Duncan Also won in 1947 James E. Peck United States Army Air Force Painting: Ohio landscapes Edward A. Reep United States Army Painting Mitchell Siporin United States Army Also won in 1947 Frank Vavruska United States Army Painting: Works based on his convalescence in England in World War II Frede Vidar United States Army Painting: Southwest Pacific, based on combat sketches Rudolph Charles von Ripper Also won in 1947 Fiction Oliver La Farge Air Transport Command History of the Air Transport Command Also won in 1941 Caroline Bache McMahon Office of Strategic Services Book about Japan William E. Wilson United States Navy Writing Also won in 1944 Poetry Ben Belitt United States Army Prose based on his army experience Humanities American Literature Lawrance Thompson Princeton University Library Biography of Robert Frost Biography John Edwin Bakeless United States Navy New York University Biography of Lewis and Clark Also won in 1936 Classics Walter Allen, Jr. United States Navy Yale University Cicero and great Roman nobles Economic History Henry William Spiegel Duquesne University Industrial planning in Brazil English Literature Gordon Norton Ray United States Navy Harvard University Edition of the letters and private papers of Thackeray Also won in 1941, 1942, 1956 Fine Arts Research Harry Bober City College of New York Study of the printed books of hours, their development, style, schools, iconography, and influences French History William Farr Church United States Army University of Kentucky Political thought in 17th-century France Also won in 1948, 1953 General Nonfiction Hodding Carter Delta Democrat Times Establishment of the West Florida Republic Paul G. Horgan United States Army New Mexico Military Institute Rio Grande Also won in 1958 History of Science and Technology Edward Rosen United States Army Air Corps City College of New York Place of Copernicus in the development of modern thought Also won in 1941 Italian Literature Washington University in St. Louis United States Army Literary theory in the Italian Renaissance Medieval History Barnaby Conrad Keeney Harvard University Origin and development of the feudal institution, and judgment by peers on the Continent and in England Medieval Literature Claude Willis Barlow United States Army Mount Holyoke College Critical edition of the works of St. Martin of Braga Near Eastern Studies Donald E. McCown University of Chicago Early cultures of Baluchistan, and the relationships of the civilizations of the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia during the third millennium Philosophy Morris T. Keeton Southern Methodist University Evaluation of the work of Edmund Montgomery Revilo P. Oliver United States Army University of Illinois Ethico-philosophical content of humanism of the first half of the 15th century United States History Adrienne Koch Office of Economic Warfare Social and political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe Also won in 1944 Dale L. Morgan Office of Price Administration History of Mormonism and the Mormons, with particular reference to the influence of the Mormons upon American life since 1830 Also won in 1970 Henry Fowles Pringle History of World War II on the home front and the military front Also won in 1944 Henry L. Smith University of Minnesota America's part in the development of world air routes and the history of American foreign air policy C. Vann Woodward United States Navy Reserve Scripps College Origins of the New South, 1880-1913 (published 1951) Also won in 1959 Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Leo Beranek Office of Scientific Research and Development Harvard University Acoustics Medicine and Health Orville T. Bailey Office of Scientific Research and Development Harvard Medical School Application of physiological methods to problems of degeneration in nerve fibers and myelin sheaths Organismic Biology and Ecology Harold Francis Blum United States Naval Research Laboratory Evaluation of evolutionary concepts Also won in 1936, 1953 Physics Charles Kittel United States Navy Electrical and mechanical properties of matter at microwave radio frequencies Also won in 1956, 1963 Plant Science E. Yale Dawson United States Army University of California Marine algae and marine flora on the Pacific coast of Mexico and Central America Roy Overstreet University of California Absorption and behavior of inorganic ions in plant nutrition Also won in 1957 Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies St. Andrews High School Philippine folklore Also won in 1941 Dorothy Mary Spencer Office of Strategic Services Munda people Also won in 1941 Education Robert King Hall United States Navy Harvard University Educational system in Japan with a view to rehabilitation after the war Also won in 1949, 1952 Political Science Richard Poate Stebbins Office of Strategic Services Historical study of art patronage Psychology G. LaVerne Freeman United States Navy Northwestern University Nervous tension in man Alexander H. Leighton United States Navy Comparative study of Navajo, Eskimo, and Japanese peoples Dorothea Leighton Also won in 1947 Sociology Herbert Aptheker United States Army African Americans in World War II
1945 U.S. and Canadian Fellows