List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1963

Two hundred and sixty-nine scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1963. More than $1,388,000 was disbursed.

1963 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Jack Gelber Also won in 1966 Fiction Ivan Gold Writing John Alexander Graves III Texas Christian University James Purdy Also won in 1958 Fine Arts Carmen Cicero Sarah Lawrence College Painting Also won in 1957 Harrison Covington University of South Florida Painting George J. Miyasaki California College of Arts and Crafts Printmaking Roland C. Petersen University of California, Davis Painting Rudolph O. Pozzatti Indiana University Creative printmaking Lorinda Roland Seymour Rosofsky Wright Junior College Painting Also won in 1962 Satoru Abe Abram Schlemowitz Pratt Institute Julius Schmidt Cranbrook Academy of Art Louis B. Sloan Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Jerome P. Witkin Maryland Institute College of Art Painting Music Composition Alvin Etler Smith College Composing Also won in 1940, 1941 Gene Gutchë Also won in 1964 Harvard University Gunther A. Schuller Manhattan School of Music Also won in 1962 Robert Starer Juilliard School Also won in 1957 Peter Talbot Westergaard Columbia University Michael White (1931-2022) Juilliard School Charles Whittenberg Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Also won in 1964 Photography Diane Arbus "American Rites, Manners and Customs" project Also won in 1966 Dave Heath The human condition in the United States Also won in 1964 Poetry Alan Dugan Writing Also won in 1972 Robert Duncan Edward Field Donald Hall University of Michigan Also won in 1972 Richard Purdy Wilbur Wesleyan University Also won in 1952 Humanities Architecture, Planning and Design Frederick Doveton Nichols University of Virginia Bernard Rudofsky Museum of Modern Art Also won in 1964, 1971 Eduard Sekler Harvard University Historical urban spaces Also won in 1961 American Literature Sherman Paul University of Illinois Emersonian influences in contemporary intellectuals Bibliography Thomas Randolph Adams Brown University British pamphlet literature relating to the American revolutions James Meriwether University of North Carolina Textual bibliography of the writings of William Faulkner British History Carl B. Cone University of Kentucky Social and economic history of English Protestant dissent in the 18th century David Davies Claremont Colleges Lives and times of Sir Thomas Shirley and his three sons Lacey B. Smith Northwestern University Political power during the last phase of the reign of Henry VIII David Harris Willson University of Minnesota Also won in 1941, 1943, 1948 Classics Louis Harry Feldman Yeshiva College Flavius Josephus and his relation to Hellenistic writers and traditional Jewish literature Harald Reiche Massachusetts Institute of Technology Problem of anthropomorphism in Greek philosophy and early Christian theology East Asian Studies Cyril Birch University of California, Berkeley Chinese writers William Samolin Columbia University Economic History Lance E. Davis Purdue University Effects of capital immobility on structure and location of US and British industry English Literature Jerome Hamilton Buckley Harvard University Victorian literature Also won in 1946 Thomas Wellsted Copeland University of Massachusetts Biography of Edmund Burke Also won in 1951 Mario A. Di Cesare Harpur College Work on his book Vergil's Aenid and the Epic Tradition Oliver Watkins Ferguson Duke University Writings of Oliver Goldsmith Thomas B. Flanagan University of California, Berkeley Rise of modern Irish literature George H. Ford University of Rochester Concept of time in Victorian literature Oliver Bennett Hardison, Jr. University of North Carolina Book-length study of the origins of medieval drama William Harvey Marshall University of Pennsylvania Robert D. Mayo Northwestern University Oliver Goldsmith's periodical writings as a phase of his development Martin Meisel Dartmouth College 19th-century English theatre Also won in 1987 Constantinos A. Patrides University of California, Berkeley Milton's conception and presentation of the central themes of the Christian faith Also won in 1960 James Louis Rosier University of Michigan George Winchester Stone, Jr. New York University London stage, 1660-1800 Also won in 1950, 1951 Fine Arts Research Dore Ashton Cooper Union Also won in 1969 John Franklin Haskins Finch College Thomas Jefferson Also won in 1958 Richard Krautheimer New York University Also won in 1950, 1953 University of Chicago Original design in the Palace of Charles V in Granada French History Peter Henry Amann Oakland University Nancy Lyman Roelker Winsor School Life of Jeanne d'Albret and her role in the history of French Protestantism French Literature Leonard Pronko Pomona College Influence of the Oriental theater and dance on the contemporary French theater Princeton University General Nonfiction Benjamin DeMott Amherst College American attitudes toward work and leisure Also won in 1967 Dwight MacDonald Edgar Allan Poe German and East European History Willard Allen Fletcher University of Colorado German occupation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg during World War II Stavro Skendi Columbia University Eugen Weber University of California, Los Angeles German and Scandinavian Literature Bernhard Blume Harvard University Symbolism in German and French poetry Also won in 1954 Harvard University University of Colorado Works of Heinrich Mann History of Science and Technology Bell Telephone Laboratories Role of metal ions in protein synthesis Also won in 1977 June Zimmerman Fullmer Newcomb College Life and letters of Humphry Davy Italian Literature Francis Fergusson Rutgers University Biography of Dante Nicolas J. Perella University of California, Berkeley Life and works of Giacomo Leopardi Linguistics Dean Stoddard Worth University of California, Los Angeles Gerta Hüttl-Folter University of California, Los Angeles Literary Criticism Herschel Clay Baker Harvard University Rennaisance thought Also won in 1956 Peter Alexis Boodberg University of California, Berkeley Classical Chinese script Also won in 1938, 1955 Walker Gibson New York University Modern prose style William Hugh Kenner University of California, Santa Barbara Research for his book The Pound Era Also won in 1956 Medieval History John Frederic Benton University of Pennsylvania William Marvin Bowsky University of Nebraska Italian commune Siena during the 13th and 14th centuries Also won in 1985 James A. Brundage University of Wisconsin Status, obligations and privileges of the Crusaders in medieval law Robert I. Burns University of California, San Francisco Clash between Muslims and Christians in the 13th century John Hine Mundy Columbia University Theories of war and society in 15th-century France Also won in 1977 Ihor Ševčenko Robert Lee Wolff Harvard University Relations between Byzantium and the West from the reign of Justinian I to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks Medieval Literature William Compaine Calin Dartmouth College French epic in the 13th century Arthur R. Heiserman University of Chicago Narrative techniques in medieval romances Music Research Howard Mayer Brown University of Chicago Music in the 16th-century Italian theater Sylvia Kenney University of California, Los Angeles The motet in the 15th century Near Eastern Studies George Fadlo Hourani University of Michigan Erle Verdun Leichty University of Chicago Ancient Mesopotamian rituals Philosophy Bruce Arthur Aune University of Pittsburgh Problems concerning the relation between the mental and the physical John F. A. Taylor Michigan State University Religion Brevard Springs Childs Yale University Divinity School Exegetical methods by which the rabbinic sages interpreted the Book of Exodus Julian N. Hartt Yale University Theological interpretations of the arts John H. Hick Princeton Theological Seminary Philosophical problem of evil Also won in 1985 Edward L. Long, Jr. Oberlin College Types of religious morality Rennaisance History Deno J. Geanakoplos University of Illinois Influence of Byzantine- and Venetian-dominated Crete on the Renaissance of Europe Russian History Alfred Meyer Michigan State University Slavic Literature William B. Edgerton Indiana University Life, thought and art of Nikolai Leskov Spanish and Portuguese Literature Manuel E. Durán Yale University Works of Francisco de Quevedo Case Western Reserve University Syntactical problems in the Spanish language Theatre Arts Eldon Elder United States History Hugh Coleman Bailey Howard College Life and achievements of Edgar Gardner Murphy in the fields of race relations, child labor and public education in the South at the turn of the century Charles Albro Barker Johns Hopkins University American public thought from colonial to recent times Thomas D. Clark University of Kentucky Newspapers of Louisville and their influence on the economic, social and political history of the Ohio Valley Fred Louis Engelman Young and Rubicam Domestic history of the War of 1812, a study of the administration of James Madison, and the campaign to conquer Canada E. James Ferguson University of Maryland Jack Douglas Forbes San Fernando Valley State College Inter-ethnic relations in California, particularly on the dynamics of European-Indian contacts in the Chumash region Mary Elizabeth Massey South Carolina State College for Women Effects of the American Civil War on women Malcolm C. McMillan Auburn University Biography of Daniel Pratt Doyce Blackman Nunis Hudson's Bay Company and the California fur trade during the Mexican Era Charles Grier Sellers University of California, Berkeley Biography of James K. Polk Marshall Smelser University of Notre Dame US History from 1801 to 1817 with emphasis on public affairs Edouard A. Stackpole Marine Historical Association American whaling industry Also won in 1951 David Dirck Van Tassel University of Texas Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Eli Sternberg Brown University Mathematical theories of elasticity and viscoelasticity Astronomy and Astrophysics Leon Trilling Massachusetts Institute of Technology Process of interaction of gas molecules with solid surfaces under conditions of very low density Chemistry Ralph N. Adams University of Kansas EPR-electrochemistry Fred Colvig Anson California Institute of Technology Electrical double layer James A. Campbell Harvey Mudd College Absorption spectra of chromium compounds Samuel Henry Davis, Jr. Rice University Arthur William Fairhall University of Washington Harold M. Feder Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago Thermodynamic transport properties of alloys Frank Henry Field Humble Oil Carl Wesley Garland Massachusetts Institute of Technology Elastic properties of crystals near a lambda point John Ferguson Harris, Jr. DuPont Chemistry of small-ring compounds Frank B. Mallory Bryn Mawr College Norman E. Phillips University of California, Berkeley Properties of metals at extremely low temperatures Eugene George Rochow Harvard University Organosilicon chemistry Ignacio Tinoco University of California, Berkeley Conformation and sequence of nucleic acids Jürg Waser California Institute of Technology Methods of teaching chemistry Computer Science Lloyd D. Fosdick University of Illinois Probabilistic methods for solving problems in statistical physics using high-speed computers Marvin L. Stein University of Minnesota Earth Science George Edward Backus University of California, San Diego Methods of obtaining approximate solutions of linear short-wave-propagation problems of geophysical interest Also won in 1970 Charles W. Collinson Illinois State Geological Survey European and American Devonian and Carboniferous faunas Robert Ross Compton Stanford University Structural development of the Santa Lucia Mountains John L. Rosenfeld University of California, Los Angeles William Harris Taubeneck Oregon State University Petr