Two hundred and sixty-five scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1961. More than $1,350,000 was disbursed.
1961 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Paul Taylor Paul Taylor Dance Company Also won in 1966, 1983 Drama and Performance Art Robert Goode Hogan Creative writing in drama Fiction George Paul Elliott University of Iowa, Barnard College Writing Also won in 1970 Curtis A. Harnack Sarah Lawrence College John C. Keats Paule Burke Marshall Grace Paley Greenwich Village Peace Center Mordecai Richler Fine Arts Harold Altman University of Wisconsin Drawing and printmaking Also won in 1960 Al Blaustein The Art Center of Northern New Jersey Printmaking Also won in 1958 Edward Colker Worden Day Also won in 1952 Arthur Deshaies Creative printmaking Jimmy Ernst Brooklyn College Painting Gray Foy Drawing Robert W. Hansen Occidental College David Vincent Hayes Sculpting Jerome Eugene Kaplan Philadelphia College of Art Printmaking Daniel U. Newman Painting John W. Rhoden Sculpting George Warren Rickey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tulane University Sculpting Also won in 1960 Music Composition Halim El-Dabh Composing Also won in 1959 Arnold Franchetti University of Hartford Karl George Kohn Pomona College Theodore S. Newman University of Miami Burrill Phillips University of Illinois Also won in 1942 William Overton Smith University of Southern California Also won in 1960 Photography Bruce L. Davidson Youth in America John Szarkowski Study of Quetico Provincial Park-Superior National Forest in Canada and the United States Also won in 1954 Poetry Wendell Erdman Berry Writing Kay Boyle Eminent figures in German history Also won in 1934 James Dickey Burke-Dowling-Adams Writing Kenneth Koch George Edwin Starbuck Houghton Mifflin Company Humanities American Literature Everett Carter University of California, Davis Idea of progress in American literature Also won in 1952 Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes Duke University Work on proposed bibliography of regional literature and drama in the U.S. Leo Marx Amherst College Pastoral impulse in American literature and thought Also won in 1965 William Harwood Peden University of Missouri American short story between 1940 and 1960 Architecture, Planning and Design Harold Edelman Stanley Salzman Pratt Institute, New York School of Interior Design Eduard Sekler Harvard University Urban design Also won in 1963 Rudolf Jacob Wittkower Columbia University Bibliography Yale University Bibliographical studies of the works of Ezra Pound Also won in 1968 Edwin Wolf II Library Company of Philadelphia Biography Irvin Ehrenpreis Indiana University Life of Jonathan Swift Also won in 1955 British History Sidney Alexander Burrell Barnard College Margaret Gay Davies Pomona College Continuing work started by her father on economic fluctuations in the Restoration Period of England William Roger Graham University of Saskatchewan Second volume of biography on Arthur Meighen Alfred M. Gollin University of California, Los Angeles Also won in 1964, 1971 William Best Hesseltine University of Wisconsin Manuscript jornals, in several languages, of Hekekyan Bey Thomas H. D. Mahoney Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edmund Burke and the American Revolution Leo Frank Solt Indiana University Sectarian tracts of the Commonwealth and The Protectorate Classics Francis Dvornik Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Origin of early Christian political philosophy Kenan Tevfik Erim Herbert Hoffman Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Also won in 1972 Sesto Prete Fordham University Cedric Hubbell Whitman Harvard University Aristophanes as a comic poet Also won in 1976 East Asian Studies Harry J. Benda Yale University Social and political history of Southeast Asia since 1950 Relman Morin Associated Press Origins of colonialism in the Far East Donald Keene Columbia University Also won in 1971 Economic History Charles Issawi Columbia University Also won in 1968 English Literature John Lewis Bradley Mount Holyoke College Life and works of Henry Mayhew Dwight Culler Yale University Poetry of Matthew Arnold Also won in 1975 Joseph Frank University of Rochester Poetry of the period from 1641 to 1660 Also won in 1958 Walter John Hipple, Jr. Cornell College 19th century British philosophy from the time of Dugald Stewart to that of Samuel Alexander Dan H. Laurence Shavian research Also won in 1960, 1972 Lowry Nelson, Jr. University of California, Los Angeles Robert Ornstein University of Illinois Shakespeare's history plays in relation to Elizabethan historical and political thought David Dodd Perkins Harvard University Life and poetry of William Wordsworth Also won in 1972 John Henry Raleigh University of California, Berkeley English fiction from Dickens to Joyce Charles H. Shattuck University of Illinois English language prompt books of Shakespeare's plays Also won in 1968 George Robert Stange University of Minnesota Poetry of Matthew Arnold Frank W. Wadsworth University of California, Los Angeles Revivals of Elizabethan plays in 19th century United States and England Harris Ward Wilson University of Illinois H. G. Wells and the Fabian Society Andrew Wright Ohio State University Also won in 1970 Fine Arts Research Wen Fong Princeton University Curtis Howard Shell Wellesley College Florentine painting of early Renaissance Folklore and Popular Culture Felix Johannes Oinas Indiana University Relationship of Russian and Balto-Finnic folklore and linguistics Also won in 1966 Harry Oster Louisiana State University French History David Duckworth Bien Princeton University Jere Clemens King University of California, Los Angeles Andrew Lossky University of California, Los Angeles French Literature Jules Brody Columbia University Wallace Fowlie Bennington College Work of Marcel Proust Also won in 1947 Raymond Dorner Giraud Stanford University Origins and development of the concept of art for art's sake in 19th century French literature University of Michigan Lawrence Elliot Harvey Dartmouth College Writings of Samuel Beckett University of California, Los Angeles Aesthetic basis of the poetry of Max Jacob Michael Riffaterre Columbia University Also won in 1977 Georges Markow-Totevy Princeton University General Nonfiction Ben Haig Bagdikian Providence Journal, Evening Bulletin Development of contemporary American press Helen Henley Christian Science Monitor Family farm in contemporary U.S. German and East European History Hajo Holborn Yale University Philosophical foundations of historical knowledge Also won in 1954 German and Scandinavian Literature Martin Dyck University of Michigan Hans Albert Maier University of Connecticut Goethe's West–östlicher Divan Walter Friedrich Naumann University of Wisconsin, Madison Also won in 1951 Italian Literature Eric William Cochrane Jr University of Chicago History of Florence Nicolae Iliescu Harvard University Petrarch's Il Canzoniere in perspective of the writings of St. Augustine Sergio Pacifici Yale University Modern Italian novel Latin American Literature Norman F. Martin University of Santa Clara Unemployment faced by New Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries Linguistics Nicholas C. Bodman Foreign Service Institute Tibeto-Burman languages Literary Criticism Robert Brustein Columbia University Murray Krieger University of Illinois Classic vision in post-Renaissance literature Also won in 1956 Yvor Winters Stanford University Aspects of the short poem Medieval History David Herlihy Bryn Mawr College Richard Eugene Sullivan Michigan State University History of Christian monasticism from the fourth to the 10th century Medieval Literature Charles William Dunn New York University David C. Fowler University of Washington Also won in 1975 Robert Kaske University of North Carolina Heroism and the hero in Old English poetry Also won in 1977 Paul Murray Kendall Ohio University Warwick the Kingmaker Also won in 1957 University of Alberta History of vernacular lyric poetry in the Middle Ages Also won in 1969 Erik Wahlgren University of California, Los Angeles Music Research William Weaver Austin Cornell University Music of the 20th century Ralph Thomas Daniel Indiana University Origin and development of the English anthem Near Eastern Studies Ben Halpern Harvard University Contemporary Israel Anne Draffkorn Kilmer University of Chicago Lexical texts of ancient Mesopotamia Also won in 1962 Samuel Noah Kramer University of Pennsylvania Also won in 1937, 1938 William R. Polk Harvard University Relations of U.S. and Arab World Isaac Rabinowitz Cornell University Working on an annotated translation of The Book of Honeycomb's Flow of Judah Messer Leon Philosophy J. Glenn Gray Colorado College Work on book tenatively titled To Make Men Seekers - A Theory of American Education Wallace I. Matson University of California, Berkeley Explanatory concepts Abraham Irving Melden University of Washington Religion Peter de Beauvoir Brock University of Alberta History of pacificism Edward Atkinson Dowey, Jr. Princeton Theological Seminary Intellectual history of the 16th and 17th centuries, with reference to religious thought in the reformed areas of Protestantism James Alvin Sanders Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Also won in 1972 Russian History Alexander Dallin Columbia University Martin Edward Malia University of California, Berkeley Russian radial intelligentsia from 1825 to 1917 Slavic Literature Rufus Wellington Mathewson, Jr. Columbia University Spanish and Portuguese Literature Willis R. Barnstone Wesleyan University Life and works of Antonio Machado Columbia University University of Michigan Theatre Arts Columbia University Dorothy Jeakins Los Angeles Civic Light Opera United States History Arthur Bestor University of Illinois American constitutional development Also won in 1953 Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. University of Virginia Paul Wilbur Glad Coe College United States from World War I to the Great Depression Hugh Dodge Hawkins Amherst College American university presidents, 1865-1915 William Ransom Hogan Tulane University Stephen Guild Kurtz Wabash College Political philosophy and statecraft of John Adams David Sievert Lavender The Thacher School American Fur Company Also won in 1968 Samuel Eliot Morison Richard B. Morris City College of New York Also won in 1947, 1982 Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Bernard Budiansky Harvard University Theory of thin shells Charles Danne Graham, Jr. University of Pennsylvania David Okrent Argonne National Laboratory High temperature experiments Also won in 1977 Robert D. Richtmyer New York University Ronald Samuel Rivlin Brown University Hans Jürgen Eduard Schmitt Harvard University Scattering of electromagnetic waves from acoustic disturbances Richard Thorpe Shield Brown University Mathematical theories of elastic and plastic solids Harold Staras RCA Laboratories Communications systems that utilize new modes of wave propagation Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Horace Albert Barker University of California, Berkeley Biochemistry of the cobamide coenzymes Also won in 1941 Chemistry Richard J. Bearman University of Kansas Statistical mechanics transport processes in mixtures Ernst Berliner Bryn Mawr College Robert Kenneth Brinton University of California Transfer of excitation energy between molecules in solution William Andrew Chupka Argonne National Laboratory Mass spectrometry Robert Hugh Cole Brown University Equilibrium and relaxation theories of dielectrics Also won in 1955 James John Fritz Pennsylvania State University Low temperature research and studies in the theory of magnetism Robert Maurice Hexter Mellon Institute Problem of predicting the electronic and vibrational spectra of molecular crystals Kenneth Keith Innes Vanderbilt University Organic molecular structure University of Illinois High temperature electrochemistry Also won in 1953 William Eugene Parham University of Minnesota Organic chemistry J