List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1964

Three hundred and twelve scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1964. More than $1,882,000 was disbursed.

1964 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Alwin T. Nikolais Henry Street Playhouse Choreography Also won in 1967 Drama and Performing Arts Jan Alfred Hartman Writing Herbert H. Lieberman Jack Carter Richardson Columbia University Fiction Edward M. Hoagland Writing Also won in 1975 Robie Macauley Kenyon Review Alan Richard Marcus Larry McMurtry Rice University Reynolds Price Duke University Kit Reed Samuel Yellen Indiana University Fine Arts Robert Maurice Broderson Duke University Painting Peter Grippe Brandeis University Sculpture Robert Mallary Pratt Institute Sculpture Michael Burton Mazur Rhode Island School of Design James McGarrell Indiana University Painting Anthony Padovano University of Connecticut Sculpture Gabor Peterdi Yale School of Art Printmaking Robert H. Rohm Pratt Institute Sculpture James Rosati Yale University Sculpture Frank Roth School of Visual Arts Painting Jerome Anthony Savage University of Illinois Painting Temple University Also won in 1958, 1969 Music Composition Dominick Argento University of Minnesota Composing Also won in 1957 Ernst Bacon Wesleyan University Also won in 1939, 1942 William Bolcom Stanford University Also won in 1968 Michael C. Colgrass Also won in 1967 Gene Gutchë Also won in 1963 Robert Helps Ulysses Kay Broadcast Music, Inc. (consultant) Donald H. Keats Antioch College Also won in 1972 Ezra Laderman Also won in 1956, 1958 Marvin David Levy Also won in 1960 Robert Lombardo University of Hartford Roger Reynolds Halsey Stevens University of Southern California Also won in 1971 Lester Trimble University of Maryland Donald Waxman Charles Whittenberg Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center Also won in 1963 Photography Robert Adelman Context of contemporary affluence William Ralph Current Prehistoric dwelling sites in the American Southwest Dave Heath Human condition in the United States Also won in 1963 Garry Winogrand American life Also won in 1969, 1978 Poetry Robert Bly Writing Also won in 1972 Philip Booth Wellesley College Also won in 1958 Robert Creeley University of New Mexico Also won in 1971 Jack Gilbert Juniata College Jerome Mazzaro State University of New York at Cortland Robert Sward Cornell University James Wright Macalester College Also won in 1978 Humanities American Literature Joseph L. Blotner University of Virginia William Faulkner Also won in 1967 William Merriam Gibson New York University Critical study of Mark Twain, emphasizing the "despair group" of his writings Also won in 1976 William Henry Gilman University of Rochester Also won in 1960 Richard Warren Schickel American comic novel from 1945 to present Eleanor M. Tilton Barnard College Edits of over 1,000 letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson Hyatt Howe Waggoner Brown University Critical history of American poetry Also won in 1971 Christof A. Wegelin University of Oregon American genre of international fiction, that is, of fiction dealing with confrontation between Americans and Europeans Architecture, Planning and Design Clay Lancaster Studies in the development of Kentucky architecture Also won in 1953 Janko Ivan Rasic Design of a contemporary museum of classical sculpture in Aphrodisias, Turkey Lloyd Rodwin Massachusetts Institute of Technology National policies for urban and regional planning in developing countries Bernard Rudofsky Museum of Modern Art Nonformal, nonclassified architecture with particular reference to communal art Also won in 1963, 1971 Paolo Soleri Also won in 1967 Bibliography Thomas R. Buckman Libraries of Kansas Organization of the book trade and the book distribution abroad Biography Howard Mumford Jones Harvard University American thought Also won in 1932, 1935 British History Alfred M. Gollin Also won in 1961, 1971 Mary Peter Mack Columbia University British political thought in the 20th century Leonard M. Thompson University of California, Los Angeles Also won in 1981 David E. Underdown University of Virginia Politics of the English Puritan Revolution Also won in 1991 Classics William Musgrave Calder Columbia University Dramatic techniques of Sophocles George E. Dimock Smith College The Odyssey University of North Dakota Compilation of a modern Greek-English dictionary Also won in 1957 George A. Kennedy Haverford College Ramsay MacMullen Brandeis University Patterns of unrest in the Roman Empire Emily Townsend Vermeule Boston University Aesthetics of late Mycenaean and Minoan art East Asian Studies Kenneth K. Chen Princeton University Howard S. Hibbett Harvard University Psychological novel in Japan since 1900 Economic History Thomas C. Smith Stanford University History of Japanese corporate societies English Literature Martin Carey Battestin University of Virginia Editing of three major novels by Henry Fielding -- Joseph Andrews; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; and Amelia David M. Bevington University of Virginia Divine right of kings and related topics in the early Renaissance theater Also won in 1981 Kalman Aaron Burnim Tufts University Biographical dictionary of stage performers in London, 1669-1800 Jack Parker Dalton Edition of the 66 notebooks used by James Joyce in writing Finnegans Wake Also won in 1966 Robert Allen Durr Syracuse University Work on his book Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience (pub. 1970) Brendan Peter O Hehir University of California, Berkeley The prince as a poetic principle in English Augustan poetry F. David Hoeniger University of Toronto Shakespeare and the natural history of his time Irving Howe Hunter College Idea of modernism in European and American literature during the last hundred years Also won in 1971 George Morrow Kahrl Elmira College David Garrick Ralph James Kaufmann University of Rochester English tragedy and intellectual history Maynard Mack Yale University Alexander Pope Also won in 1942, 1982 Thomas A. McFarland Western Reserve University Also won in 1973 Samuel I. Mintz City College of New York Thomas Hobbes Arthur Mizener Cornell University Daniel Seltzer Harvard University Development of Shakespeare's ethical view and artistic method Jack Clifford Stillinger University of Illinois University of Illinois Keats, Wordsworth, and English romanticism Harold Earl Toliver Ohio State University Also won in 1975 Andrew Winchester Turnbull Life of Thomas Wolfe John E. Unterecker Columbia University Yeats and the Abbey Theater Film, Video, and Radio Studies Pauline Kael University of California, Berkeley Relationship of film to other arts and other popular media Fine Arts Research John Walker McCoubrey University of Pennsylvania Jules Prown Yale University Life and works of 18th-century American artist John Singleton Copley Donald Robertson Tulane University Irving Sandler New York University; The New York Post American abstract expressionism Folklore and Popular Culture Richard Mercer Dorson Indiana University Uses of oral tradition to the historian Also won in 1949, 1971 French Literature University at Buffalo Mécislas Golberg University of Wisconsin Princeton University Basil James Guy University of California, Berkeley Prince Charles de Ligne and his works Renée Riese Hubert San Fernando Valley State College Functions of visual elements in the French prose-poem Gita May Columbia University Intellectual and emotional temper of the direct heirs of the French Enlightenment who played a significant role during the French Revolution General Nonfiction Emile Capouya New School for Social Research Book publishing in the United States Franklin A. Russell Natural history of the St. Lawrence maritime region German and East European History Andreas Tietze University of California, Los Angeles Peter F. Sugar University of Washington German and Scandinavian Literature University of California, Berkeley Mythology of nihilism in German literature Walter G. Johnson University of Washington Booktrade in contemporary Sweden Also won in 1957 Michael Mann University of California, Berkeley Romanticism in German literature and music, 1780-1840 Swarthmore College Book about G. C. Lichtenberg Also won in 1968 William G. Moulton Princeton University Theodore Joseph Ziolkowski Columbia University Time in the modern German novel History of Science and Technology Asger Hartvig Aaboe Yale University Ancient mathematical astronomy Thomas Neville Bonner University of Cincinnati History of the United States home front during World War II Also won in 1958 Gerald Joseph Gruman Lake Erie College Work on a book concerning people of the 19th and early 20th centuries to tried to cope with the problems and ageing and death Brooke Hindle New York University Transit of technology to the United States in the period 1783 to 1812 Iberian and Latin American History Townsend Miller Enrique IV Richard McGee Morse Yale University General theory of Latin American urban history Intellectual and Cultural History Gian N. Orsini University of Wisconsin Italian Literature Aldo S. Bernardo Harpur College Relationship between the 14th-century poet Petrarch and Laura Latin American Literature José Juan Arrom Yale University Contemporary Spanish-American literature in relation to its cultural environment Also won in 1947 Mario Rodríguez University of Southern California Linguistics Henrik Birnbaum University of California, Los Angeles Isidore Dyen Yale University Language limit problem Also won in 1949 Mary Rosamond Haas University of California, Berkeley American Indian languages Gene M. Schramm University of California, Berkeley Generative morphophonemic analysis of literary Hebrew with primary emphasis on the verbal system University of California, Berkeley Slavic linguistics Literary Criticism Robert B. Heilman University of Washington Tragedy and melodrama Also won in 1975 Eric Donald Hirsch Yale University General theory of textual interpretation John O. McCormick Rutgers University Also won in 1979 Richard M. Ohmann Wesleyan University Syntactic foundations of literary style M. L. Rosenthal New York University British poetry and poetic criticism since World War II Also won in 1960 Maurice Valency Columbia University Dramatic works of Chekhov, Pirandello, and Shaw Also won in 1960 Medieval History Thomas N. Bisson Brown University Peter Riesenberg Washington University in St. Louis Medieval Literature Morton Wilfred Bloomfield Harvard University Problems of medieval narrative Also won in 1949 Curt F. Bühler Morgan Library & Museum Edition of Stephen Scrope's Epistle of Othea Also won in 1976 Richard M. Hazelton Washington University in St. Louis Jerome Taylor University of Chicago Literary theory during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries Music Research Jan P. LaRue New York University Background of the classical symphony Gilbert Reaney University of California, Los Angeles Hans Tischler Roosevelt University Evolution of the musical and poetic styles of the early 13th century motet Near Eastern Studies George T. Dennis Loyola Marymount University Detailed examination of the writings of the Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus Norman Golb University of Chicago Economic, social, and religious history of the Jews of Fatima, Egypt Also won in 1966 Philosophy Alan Ross Anderson Yale University Concept of entailment or logical consequence Stephen Francis Barker Ohio State University Paul Edwards New York University Contemporary existentialists John Rawls Harvard University Concept of justice Also won in 1977 Julius Rudolph Weinberg University of Wisconsin Religion Josef Lewis Altholz University of Minnesota English Christian churches of the 19th century Horton Davies Princeton University Also won in 1959 William R. Farmer Southern Methodist University Origins of the Christian religion in Palestine and Syria Paul L. Holmer Yale University Critical reassessment of theological language Helmut Heinrich Koester Ha