List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1949

One hundred and forty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1949.

1949 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Doris Humphrey Book about choreography "with special reference to sources and methods for the composition of modern dances" Drama and Performance Art John La Touche Trilogy of lyrical plays Fiction Eleanor Green Writing Also won in 1950 Jean Paul Malaquais Mary McCarthy Also won in 1959 Wallace Stegner Stanford University John Wesley Powell Also won in 1952 and 1959 Eudora Alice Welty Writing Also won in 1942 Jay Williams Film Philip Francisco Stapp Fine Arts Hyman Bloom Painting Eldzier Cortor Martin Jackson Fleisher Art Memorial Painting and lithography Also won in 1950 Arthur Osver Painting Also won in 1951 Alexander Peter Russo Also won in 1947 Leonard Louis Schwartz Sculpture Charles Umlauf Music Composition Samuel Barber Composing Also won in 1945 and 1947 John Cage Romeo Cascarino Also won in 1948 Alexei Haieff Also won in 1946 Gerald Raymond Kechley Also won in 1950 Leon Kirchner University of California, Berkeley Also won in 1948 Peter Mennin Jerome Moross Also won in 1947 Robert E. Ward Also won in 1950 and 1966 Photography Homer Gordon Page "Classic street work" Poetry William Oliver Everson Writing Kenneth Rexroth Also won in 1948 Theatre Arts John Waldhorn Gassner Humanities Biography Arna Bontemps Fisk University Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. DuBois Rackham Holt Sir Wilfred Grenfell Jeannette Mirsky Also won in 1947 Victor Wolfgang von Hagen Ephraim George Squier Also won in 1950 British History Archibald Smith Foord Yale University Development of "His Majesty's Opposition" in England, 1714-1830 Also won in 1968 Ruth A. McIntyre Mount Holyoke College English merchant class as promoters of early 17th-century discovery and colonial enterprise Dora Neill Raymond Sweet Briar College First Earl of Lytton Classics Elias Joseph Bickerman Jewish Theological Seminary of America Also won in 1959 English Literature Emmett Langdon Avery Washington State College Calendar of theatrical performances in 18th-century London Richard David Ellmann Harvard University Poetry of W. B. Yeats Also won in 1957 and 1970 Virgil Barney Heltzel Northwestern University History of literary patronage in Elizabethan England Also won in 1950 and 1965 Malcolm MacKenzie Ross University of Toronto Christian symbolism in English poetry, 1600-1660 Austin Warren State University of Iowa Poetry of John Donne Fine Arts Research Charles de Tolnay Institute for Advanced Study Michelangelo Also won in 1948 and 1953 Sydney Joseph Freedberg Wellesley College Mannerism in Florentine and Roman painting of the early 16th century Also won in 1954 Gordon Bailey Washburn Rhode Island School of Design Museum "Isms in Art Since 1800" Harold Edwin Wethey University of Michigan Also won in 1971 Adja Yunkers University of Mexico (visiting) Also won in 1954 Folklore and Popular Culture Richard Mercer Dorson Michigan State College English folklore and folklorists, 1860-1915 Also won in 1964 and 1971 Duncan Black Macdonald Emrich Library of Congress Folklore of the western States, exclusive of the Pacific Coast Albert Bates Lord Harvard University Jugo-Slav music and epic poetry French History Paul Harold Beik Swarthmore College Conflicting social philosophies in the French Revolution Also won in 1947 Carl Vincent Confer Syracuse University Colonialism in France, 1870 to present French Literature William Joseph Roach University of Pennsylvania Legend of the Holy Grail Also won in 1956 Jean Joseph Seznec Harvard University Interrelations between the history of art and history of literature Philip Adrian Wadsworth Yale University LaFontaine's artistic and cultural development in his early poems, tales, and fables University of California, Berkeley Preparation of an edition of the Old French Johannis translation of the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle General Nonfiction Robert Sharon Allen Our Fair City Operation of state government Sally Carrighar Book on Alaskan wildlife called Where Storms Begin Also won in 1948 Bernard Mishkin His experiences in Peru Angelo M. Pellegrini Yale University Immigrant's Return (published 1951) German and East European History Robert A. Kann Rutgers University Cultural history of the German Austrians in modern times History of Science and Technology Francis Rarick Johnson Stanford University History of scientific thought and activity in Elizabethan England, with special emphasis on the relation of science to the other intellectual and material concerns of that age Also won in 1942 Latin American Literature Samuel Whitehall Putnam Brazilian literature Linguistics Isidore Dyen Yale University Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken in the Philippine Islands and in the East Indies Also won in 1964 Murray B. Emeneau University of California, Berkeley A Dravidian etymological dictionary, and a volume of texts in the Toda language Also won in 1956 Literary Criticism James Craig La Drière Wylie Sypher Simmons College "Studies in Form" Also won in 1958 James Thorpe Princeton University Critical study of the moral ideas in 18th-century literature Also won in 1965 Medieval History Robert Stuart Hoyt State University of Iowa Constitutional history of the royal demesne in England during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries Medieval Literature Morton Wilfred Bloomfield Ohio State University Intellectual background and content of the 14th-century English poem Piers Plowman Also won in 1964 Cora Elizabeth Lutz Wilson College Education in the Middle Ages Also won in 1954 Walter J. Ong Saint Andrew Bobola House Boston Peter Ramus and his place in English literary history Also won in 1951 Music Research Yale University History of church music, 1600 to present With Leo Franz Schrade Arthur Mendel Music of Bach in performance Leo Franz Schrade Yale University History of church music from the Christian era to the end of the 16th century With ; also won in 1951 and 1956 Near Eastern Studies Kenneth Meyer Setton University of Manitoba Athens in the Middle Ages Also won in 1950 Philosophy Morton Gabriel White Harvard University Philosophical critique of certain 20th-century American social thinkers Russian History Bertram D. Wolfe Also won in 1950 and 1953 Spanish and Portuguese Literature María Rosa Lida de Malkiel The Alexander legend reinterpreted in old Spanish literature Also won in 1950 United States History Paul Wallace Gates Cornell University Agricultural history of the United States, 1815-1860 Helene Maxwell Hooker Francis J. Heney Arthur Stanley Link Princeton University Woodrow Wilson University of Pennsylvania Spread of the 18th-century Enlightenment Also won in 1929 Charles Maurice Wiltse Also won in 1950 Natural Science Chemistry Simon Harvey Bauer Cornell University Mechanisms of vibrational energy transfer between molecules upon collision, and a book on physical methods for the determination of molecular structures Leo Brewer University of California, Berkeley Spectroscopic technique applied to thermodynamic studies of chemical systems at high temperatures approaching those of the stars Marvin Carmack University of Pennsylvania Chemistry of natural products Frederick Otto Koenig Stanford University Principles of electrochemical thermodynamics Also won in 1950 Melvin Spencer Newman Laval University Henry Taube University of Chicago Also won in 1955 David Herschel Volman University of California, Davis Mechanisms and kinetics of the photochemical reactions of gaseous hydrogen peroxide Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr. Harvard University Methods of science Also won in 1970 Earth Science Howel Williams University of California, Berkeley Field study of certain volcanic regions in Mexico and Central America Also won in 1957 Mathematics Wilfred Kaplan University of Michigan Stephen Cole Kleene University of Wisconsin George Whitelaw Mackey Harvard University Theory of topological groups and functional analysis Also won in 1961 and 1970 Medicine and Health Sidney Raffel Stanford University Chemical factor responsible for the pathogenicity of the human tubercle bacillus Molecular and Cellular Biology William C. Boyd Boston University School of Medicine Blood groups, particularly Rh types in populations of Near East and Africa Michael Doudoroff University of California, Berkeley Formation and function of microbial enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism Irving Goodman Also won in 1950 Irwin Clyde Gunsalus Indiana University Also won in 1959 and 1967 Abraham Mazur Claude Alvin Villee, Jr. Harvard Medical School Chemistry and metabolism of nucleoproteins Hans Handforth Zinsser University of Pennsylvania Medical School Theoretical physical chemistry Also won in 1950 Neuroscience Elwood Henneman Organismic Biology and Ecology Elmer Grimshaw Butler George E. Erikson Harvard Medical School Comparative anatomy of the New World primates George Evelyn Hutchinson Yale University Lakes George Robert Lunz Bears Bluff National Fish Hatchery Development of methods of oyster cultivation Frank Alois Pitelka University of California, Berkeley Distribution, comparative ecology, phylogeny, and taxonomy of the American jays Robert Cyril Stebbins Distribution, structure, habits, and ecological requirements of amphibian and reptile species inhabiting North America Physics Wendell Hinkle Furry Harvard University Interaction of radiation, electrons, and other elementary particles Emil Jan Konopinski Indiana University Harald Herborg Nielsen Ohio State University Higher order interactions in polyatomic molecules Dorothy Walcott Weeks Wilson College Zeeman effect John Archibald Wheeler Also won in 1946 Plant Sciences Muriel Virginia Bradley University of California, Berkeley Effect of normal and abnormal differences in chromosome number and nuclear structure on differentiation of cells David R. Goddard University of Pennsylvania Plant respiration George Frederik Papenfuss University of California, Berkeley Marine algae of South Africa Bernice Giduz Schubert Harvard University Monograph of the genus Desmodium of the Leguminosae Marta Sherman Walters University of California, Berkeley Meiosis in a group of interspecific grass hybrids Statistics John Wilder Tukey Princeton University Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Luther S. Cressman University of Oregon Relation of early South-Central Oregon cultures to those of other areas Also won in 1940 George M. Foster, Jr. Research in Spain Emil Walter Haury University of Arizona Chronology of cultures in the Andean region of South America David G. Mandelbaum University of California, Berkeley Kota people of South India Economics Earl Francis Beach McGill University Application of higher mathematics to problems in economic Raymond Adrien de Roover Wells College Operation of commercial capitalism and of business organization in the Middle Age Also won in 1952 Daniel Marx, Jr. Dartmouth College Effects of international shipping conferences Tibor Scitovsky Stanford University Economic cost of industrial development and reconstruction in France and Great Britain, with special reference to its theoretical implications Education Robert King Hall Also won in 1945 and 1952 Law Philip B. Kurland Kurland and Wolfson Also won in 1955 Political Science M. Margaret Ball Wellesley College Regionalism in international relations Robert MacGregor Dawson University of Toronto John Calyer Ranney Smith College British party system and its implications in modern democratic government Richard F. Wolfson Psychology Edward Norton Barnhart University of California, Berkeley Character and trend of political debate and discussion on public issues and police in Great Britain Hadley Cantril Social psychology

1949 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows