Eighty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1942.

1942 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Alexander Greendale Playwriting Fiction Dorothy Baker Novel about university life (Trio, published 1943) Carson McCullers Writing Also won in 1946 Eudora Alice Welty Also won in 1949 Fine Arts Cameron Booth St. Paul Gallery and School of Art Painting Dean Fausett Painting: Murals for the United States Air Force Also won in 1943 Joseph Hirsch Painting Also won in 1943 Dong Kingman Painting: Watercolors of American scene subjects Also won in 1943 Charles Rudy Sculpture: Stone and bronze, and experimental work in terra cotta and other media Marion Sanford Sculpture Also won in 1941 Music Composition Ernst Bacon Converse College Composing Also won in 1939, 1964 Stanley Bate Burrill Phillips Eastman School of Music Also won in 1961 Photography Wright Morris Domestic scenes in the South, Midwest, and Southwest (The Inhabitants, published 1946) Also won in 1946, 1954 Poetry W. H. Auden Writing George Zabriskie Long poem "involving the dualistic aspect of the private and social man" Also won in 1946 Humanities British History Lewis Perry Curtis Jack H. Hexter Queens College, CUNY History of the interregnum in England Also won in 1947, 1979 Classics Harold Fredrik Cherniss Johns Hopkins University Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy, Vol. II Frederick Malcolm Combellack University of Oregon Michael Ginsburg University of Nebraska Social policy of the Roman emperors Also won in 1939 Doro Levi Princeton University Mosaics of Antioch-on-the-Orontes Also won in 1941 East Asian Studies George Norbert Kates Court life of Old China through eight centuries English Literature Franklin Gary Princeton University Edward Niles Hooker University of California, Los Angeles History of English literary theory and criticism in the neoclassical period Also won in 1950 Maynard Mack Yale University Critical essay of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man Also won in 1964, 1982 Gordon Norton Ray Harvard University Definitive edition of the letters and private papers of William Makepeace Thackeray Also won in 1941, 1945, 1956 Mark Schorer Harvard University Relationship between ideas and forms in the poetry of William Blake Also won in 1941, 1948, 1973 A.S.P. Woodhouse University of Toronto John Milton Fine Arts Research Otto Benesch Also won in 1945 Meyer Schapiro Columbia University Preparation of a corpus of paintings, drawings, and ornament in manuscripts of southern France from the 10th to the end of the 12th century, with an analysis and interpretation of these works Also won in 1939 Saul S. Weinberg Institute for Advanced Study Also won in 1941 French Literature Justin O'Brien Columbia University Biographical and critical study of André Gide General Nonfiction John Dos Passos Life of Thomas Jefferson Also won in 1939, 1940 Gustavus Myers History of bigotry in the United States Also won in 1941 German and Scandinavian Literature Harold Stein Jantz Clark University New England acquaintance with German thought and literature during the 17th and 18th centuries History of Science and Technology Francis Rarick Johnson Stanford University Also won in 1949 Iberian & Latin American History Helen Sullivan Mims History of the democratic tradition of Spain Also won in 1941 Linguistics Einar Ingvald Haugen University of Wisconsin Linguistic experiences and behavior of Norwegian immigrants in the United States, with special reference to the historical, social, and cultural processes of immigrant life Literary Criticism Maxwell David Geismar Sarah Lawrence College Evaluation of the 1920s in America through certain key writers of the period Louise Michelle Rosenblatt Medieval Literature Edmund Taite Silk Yale University Edits of commentary by Nicholas Trivet on Boethius Music Research Colin McPhee Balinese music Also won in 1943 Renaissance History Hans Baron Also won in 1973 Vincent Joseph Flynn University of St. Thomas History of the English Renaissance and Anglo-Italian relations in the last half of the 15th century Craig R. Thompson Cornell University Edition of Erasmus' Colloquia famiiliaria Also won in 1954, 1955, 1968 Philosophy Horace Leland Friess Columbia University Study of the posthumous manuscripts of Felix Adler Charles William Morris University of Chicago General theory of signs United States History Alfred Whitney Griswold Yale University Political significance of American agriculture Frank Hawkins Underhill University of Toronto Career of Edward Blake Dixon Wecter University of California, Los Angeles History of the Roosevelt family in America Also won in 1943 Natural Science Earth Science Max Harrison Demorest Wesleyan University Physics of ice, particularly glacial ice Hans Jenny University of California, Los Angeles Biology Also won in 1954 George Prior Woollard Seismic, gravitational, and magnetic investigations of the geological structure underlying the North American Atlantic coastal plain Also won in 1941 Mathematics John Charles McKinsey New York University Mathematical logic Alfred Tarski Institute for Advanced Study Also won in 1941, 1955 Medicine and Health Simon Dworkin McGill University Comparison of the higher nervous activity of dogs, cats, and rats, as revealed by the experimental method of conditioned reflexes Thomas Rogers Forbes Johns Hopkins University Physiology of reproduction Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert Gaunt New York University Physiology of the adrenal gland Charles Leonard Huskins McGill University Synthesis of cytology and the genetics of plants, animals, and man Salvador E. Luria Also won in 1963 Organismic Biology and Ecology Stanford University Also won in 1941 E. Raymond Hall University of California, Los Angeles American weasel Jane M. Oppenheimer Bryn Mawr College Development of structure and function in the central nervous system of fish Also won in 1952 Physics Wilson M. Powell University of California, Berkeley Cosmic rays Also won in 1941 Plant Science John Thomas Curtis University of Wisconsin Octological status of the lake forests of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ontario Also won in 1956 Hugh Carson Cutler Harvard University Determination of the area in which corn originated Also won in 1946 David R. Goddard University of Rochester Respiratory enzymes of higher plants Floyd Alonzo McClure Lingnan University Chinese bamboos Also won in 1943 Richard E. Schultes Harvard University Economic aspects of the flors of southern Colombia and adjacent Ecuador, and an ethnobotanical study of the useful plants among the Indigenous tribes of the area Rolf Singer Harvard University Mycological flora of sub-tropical America Also won in 1952 Social Science Anthropology and Cultural Studies Gordon Townsend Bowles University of Hawaii Functional adaptations in the human skeleton based on Hawaiian skeletal materials Morris Edward Opler Claremont Colleges Cultures of four related Apache tribes Economics Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr. Wesleyan University History of unemployment in the United States Also won in 1941 Lloyd Appleton Metzler Harvard University Cyclical fluctuations in income and investment Robert Sidney Smith Duke University Guild merchants in colonial Mexico Political Science Duke University Effects of wartime social, economic, and political changes on the public personnel of Canada Also won in 1947 James A. C. Grant University of California, Los Angeles Comparative study of procedure to enforce constitutional guarantees Psychology Rudolf Arnheim Applications of principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysis Also won in 1941 Swarthmore College Psychology of color vision Burrhus Frederic Skinner University of Minnesota Psychology of language

1942 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fine Arts Antonio Rodríguez Luna Also won in 1941 Music Composition Alberto Evaristo Ginastera Composition Also won in 1946, 1969 Humanities Biography Antonio Hernández Travieso Sepúlveda College; Institute of Secondary Education (Havana) Life of Félix Varela Also won in 1943 General Nonfiction Gabriel Fernández Ledesma Theme of death as depicted in the folk arts of Mexico and the Southwest United States Iberian and Latin American History Arturo Arnáiz y Freg National Autonomous University of Mexico History of Mexican thought Philosophy Raúl Alberto Piérola National Institute of Secondary Education; Popular Library of Paraná Influence of phenomenology on contemporary North American philosophy Natural Science Applied Mathematics Jaime Lifshitz Gaj National Autonomous University of Mexico General theory of orbits Also won in 1943 Astronomy and Astrophysics Félix Cernuschi National University of Tucumán Statistical mechanics, with special reference to its application to astrophysics Also won in 1945 Medicine and Health Luis Vargas Fernández Studies at the University of Washington Also won in 1941 Molecular and Cellular Biology Efrén Carlos del Pozo National School of Biological Sciences Studies in Boston Also won in 1941 Juan José Lussich Siri Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) Vitamin chemistry Organismic Biology and Ecology Raúl Cortés Peña University of Chile Biological control of insect pests Also won in 1943 Isabel Pérez Farfante Also won in 1943 Fabio Leoni Werneck Oswaldo Cruz Institute Taxonomic studies of the Mallophaga of mammals Also won in 1943 Physics Amador Cobas University of Puerto Rico Correlation of high energy cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrons Plant Science Rafael Edmundo Pontis Videla Ministry of Agriculture (Argentina) Cytological and microchemical studies of host plants infected with spotted wilt Social Science Anthropology and Cultural Studies National Museum (Mexico) Pre-Hispanic connections between the Indigenous cultures of Mexico and the Southeast and Southwest United States

See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1941 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1943

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