Three hundred and twenty-one scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959. More than $1,500,000 was disbursed, averaging about $3,000 per recipient.
1959 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Merce Cunningham Merce Cunningham Dance Company Also won in 1954 Drama and Performance Art William B. Branch Writing Fiction Peter Feibleman Novel Writing Edmund Keeley Princeton University Also won in 1972 Andrew Nelson Lytle University of Florida Also won in 1940, 1941 William Manchester Wesleyan University Mary McCarthy Also won in 1949 Brian Moore J. Saunders Redding Hampton Institute Also won in 1944 Philip Roth Wallace Stegner Stanford University Also won in 1949, 1952 John Updike Bianca VanOrden Fine Arts Albert Alcalay Painting Dennis Byng Also won in 1958 Richard Callner Purdue University Edmond Casarella Brooklyn Museum Art School Printmaking Edris Eckhardt Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute of Art Ceramics and glass sculpture Also won in 1955 Jerrold Davis Painting Kahlil Gibran Sculpture Also won in 1960 Leon Goldin Painting Luise Clayborn Kaish Barbara Hult Lekberg University of the Arts in Philadelphia Sculpture Also won in 1957 Lee Mullican University of California, Los Angeles Painting Yutaka Ohashi Also won in 1960 Bernard Perlin Also won in 1954 Aubrey E. Schwartz Harpur College, State University of New York Printmaking Also won in 1958 Carol Summers Elbert Weinberg Sculpture Ulfert Wilke University of Louisville Painting Also won in 1960 Jack Zajac Pomona College Sculpture Music Composition Gordon W. Binkerd University of Illinois Composing Louis Calabro Bennington College Also won in 1954 Chou Wen-chung University of Illinois Also won in 1957 Halim El-Dabh Also won in 1961 Lukas Foss University of California, Los Angeles Also won in 1945 Ben Johnston University of Illinois Karl Korte Emma Willard School Also won in 1970 John La Montaine Also won in 1960 Lawrence K. Moss Mills College Also won in 1968 Mel Powell Yale University Seymour J. Shifrin University of California, Berkeley Also won in 1956 Yehudi Wyner Hebrew Union College Also won in 1976 Photography Ansel Adams Also won in 1946, 1948 Walker Evans Also won in 1940, 1941 Helen Levitt Color photography Also won in 1960, 1981 Poetry James V. Cunningham Brandeis University Writing Also won in 1966 Paul Hamilton Engle University of Iowa Also won in 1953, 1957 Jorge Guillén Princeton University Influence of Mateo Aleman's Guzmán de Alfarache on the fiction of Spain, France, England, Germany and Holland from 1600 to 1750 Also won in 1954 Anthony Evan Hecht Smith College Writing Also won in 1954 Ted Hughes University of Massachusetts Adrienne Rich Conrad Also won in 1952 May Swenson Humanities American Literature Gay Wilson Allen New York University Also won in 1952 Richard Davenport Birdsall Connecticut College Cultural history of New England, 1790-1815 Merrell R. Davis Richard Beale Davis University of Tennessee, Knoxville Virginian culture in the Jeffersonian era Also won in 1945 Donald E. Stanford Louisiana State University Edward Taylor Arlin Turner Duke University Sectionalism in Southern literature since the Civil War Also won in 1947 Architecture, Design and Planning Ernest Born Three-aisled timber hall in Europe Walter W. Horn University of California, Berkeley Bibliography Robert G. Vosper University of Kansas Biography Marjorie Wilkins Campbell William McGillivray British History Stephen B. Baxter University of North Carolina William III of England Also won in 1973 Mark H. Curtis University of California, Los Angeles English Puritanism of the early 17th century Margaret Hastings Douglass College, Rutgers University Origins and early history of the legal profession in England Maurice duPont Lee, Jr. Princeton University Cabal ministry in Great Britain Robert K. Webb Columbia University Also won in 1973 Classics Elias Joseph Bickerman Columbia University Also won in 1949 Doris Taylor Bishop Wheaton College Trade in Mediterranean in second century B.C. Lionel Casson New York University Also won in 1952 University of Pennsylvania History of alphabetization in antiquity and the Middle Ages Sterling Dow Harvard University Studies in Greece in antiquity Also won in 1934, 1966 George M. A. Grube University of Toronto History of literary criticism in ancient Greece and Rome Lily Ross Taylor Harvard University Roman politics 220-44 B.C. Also won in 1952 University of Illinois Greek manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries East Asian Studies John K. Fairbank Harvard University Problems of overseas Chinese economic development and Southeast Asian nationalism Also won in 1951 George Alexander Kennedy Yale University History of the Chinese language Economic History Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd Cornell University Factors which tended to stimulate or inhibit the economic developments of Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries English Literature Robert Martin Adams Cornell University Relation between English poetical practice and poetical theory in the 17th century Also won in 1974 Harry Berger, Jr. Yale University Poetry of Edmund Spenser, with a special emphasis on The Faerie Queene Vinton A. Dearing University of California, Los Angeles John Dryden Ray Heffner Indiana University Shakespearian tragedies Samuel Hynes Swarthmore College Ford Madox Ford and English letters, 1895-1914 Also won in 1981 J. Hillis Miller Johns Hopkins University Also won in 1965 Karl F. Thompson Michigan State University Shakespeare's use of literary tradition Stuart M. Tave University of Chicago Fine Arts Research Marvin Eisenberg University of Michigan Lorenzo Monaco Sheldon Keck Brooklyn Museum Painting conservation methods in Europe Folklore and Popular Culture William Eugene Simeone Southern Illinois University 19th and 20th century Italian folklorists French History Richard Wilder Emery Queens College Also won in 1952 Leo Gershoy New York University History of France, 1600-1789 Also won in 1936, 1939, 1946 John Baptist Wolf University of Minnesota Also won in 1966 French Literature Jean-Jacques Demorest Cornell University Literary creation in 17th century France René Girard Johns Hopkins University Also won in 1966 Frédéric Grover Swarthmore College Pierre Drieu La Rochelle Also won in 1960 Jacques Eugene Henri Guicharnaud Yale University Dramatic and scenic qualities of Molière's plays Mario Leon Maurin Bryn Mawr College Andre Suares General Nonfiction Reginald Laubin American Indian dances and their importance to Indian culture Ruthven Todd Martha's Vineyard Natural history of Martha's Vineyard Also won in 1967 German and East European History Herbert H. Rowen Elmira College German and Scandinavian Literature Eli Sobel California Institute of Technology German popular literature of the 16th century History of Science and Technology Robert Edwin Schofield University of Kansas Also won in 1967 Iberian and Latin American History Richard Herr Yale University History of Spain in the Napoleonic era, 1800-1814 Also won in 1984 Italian History Edward Williamson Wesleyan University Poetry of Petrarch in Europe Italian Literature George Thomas Romani Northwestern University Linguistics Yakov Malkiel University of California, Berkeley Theory of Romance etymology Also won in 1948, 1966 Uriel Weinreich Columbia University Literary Criticism Dorothy Van Ghent Brandeis University European novelists in 19th and 20th centuries Medieval History Benoît Lacroix University of Montreal Historians of the Middle Ages Music Research Richard H. Hoppin University of Texas Early 15th century Cypriot-French music Carleen M. Hutchins Experimentation in measuring the quality of string instruments Also won in 1962 Lawrence Morton Ojai Festivals Igor Stravinsky Also won in 1960 Claude Victor Palisca University of Illinois Humanism in Italian musical thought in the 15th and 16th centuries Also won in 1981 Queens College Near Eastern Studies University of Texas Establishment of the Seljuk and Ottoman Turks in Asia Minor Walter Fischel University of California, Berkeley Jews in India and Asia Theodor Gaster Dropsie College Religious community of the Samaritans Also won in 1954 Nahum Norbert Glatzer Brandeis University Jewish literature and scholarship Philosophy George Kimball Plochmann Southern Illinois University Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein Hilary Putnam Princeton University Role of necessary truths in theoretical science, especially the nature of mathematical knowledge Morris Weitz Ohio State University Hamlet Religion Horton Davies Princeton University History of Christian worship in England from 1750 to 1950 Also won in 1964 Robert McQueen Grant University of Chicago Also won in 1950, 1953 James Moody Gustafson Yale University Divinity School Significance of the work of Jesus Christ for moral life Also won in 1967 Hugh Thomson Kerr Princeton University Bearing of symbolism upon the development of religious ideas Krister Stendahl Harvard Divinity School Emergence of Christianity out of Judaic origins Also won in 1974 Kenneth W. Underwood Wesleyan University Ethical significance of the new social and political functions of American businessmen Renaissance History William James Bouwsma University of California, Berkeley Fra Paolo Sarpi Eugene F. Rice Jr. Cornell University Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples Russian History Leopold H. Haimson University of Chicago Victor S. Mamatey Florida State University Work on a companion volume to his book on the World War on diplomacy of the United States in East Central Europe Cornell University Constitutional development of the Russian monarchy from 1905 to 1917 University of Texas First decade of the Communist experiment in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1958 Slavic Literature James Ferrell University of Michigan Comparative studies in grammar of Slavic languages George Gibian Smith College Russian and French fiction Milada Součková Harvard University Modern Czech literature Spanish and Portuguese Literature Gustavo Correa University of Pennsylvania Religious symbolism in Benito Perez Galdos' novels John C. Dowling Texas Technological College Leandro Fernández de Moratín Dartmouth College Complete works of Garcilaso de la Vega Eloise Roach Austin High School Work on two books: a translation of work by Juan Ramon Jimenez and a translation of works of Latin American poets Ohio State University Elegy in Spanish literature Also won in 1952 Theatre Arts Philip H. Highfill, Jr. George Washington University Biographical study of performers on the London stage between 1720 and 1801 Basil Langton Boston University, Manhattan School of Music Stagecraft of George Bernard Shaw Richard A. Moody Indiana University American plays and actors on the 19th century English stage United States History Gerald M. Capers Tulane University New Orleans in the American Civil War University of Richmond Practical operation of the Jeffersonian Republican Party, 1801-1809 Alexander DeConde University of Michigan Diplomatic and political history of Franco-American relations, 1797-1801 Also won in 1967 Don E. Fehrenbacher Stanford University State-making process in American history Also won in 1984 Shelby Foote American Civil War Also won in 1955, 1956 Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. Vanderbilt University Progressive movement in the South from 1900 to 1920 Morton Keller University of Pennsylvania Political and social influence of the large American life insurance companies, 1890-1910 Horace Samuel Merrill University of Maryland Nature of the role of American political conservatives and conservatism, 1896-1912 Samuel Milner United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research Fall of Java in World War II and the fate of its American defenders Chase Curran Mooney Indiana University William H. Crawford Charles K. O'Neill Kentucky neutrality during 1861 and 1862 Also won in 1958 Charles P. Roland Tulane University Albert Sidney Johnston Philip Van Doren S