One hundred and ninety-one scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1953. $780,000 was disbursed among them. Thirty recipients received their second, third, or fourth Guggenheim award.
1953 U.S. and Canadian fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Godfrey Blunden Writing Owen Vincent Dodson Howard University Early version of Come Home Early, Child (published 1977) Thomas Hal Phillips The Loved and the Unloved (published 1955) Also won in 1956 Elizabeth Spencer Rusher University of Mississippi The Voice at the Back Door (published 1956) Fine Arts Roger Allen Baker Leonard Baskin Printmaking Misch Kohn Illinois Institute of Technology Also won in 1952 Armin Landeck Brearley School Painting Harold Paris Also won in 1954 Charles Schucker Painting Music Composition Mark Bucci Operas and a TV fantasy Also won in 1957 Henry Bryan Dority Composing Also won in 1952 Paul Fetler University of Minnesota Symphony No. 3 Also won in 1960 Alan Hovhaness Composing Also won in 1954 Andrew W. Imbrie University of California, Berkeley Also won in 1960 John Ayres Lessard SUNY Stony Brook Compositions including Four Preludes, a commission from Hope College Also won in 1946 Nikolai Lopatnikoff Carnegie Institute of Technology Composing Also won in 1945 Bohuslav Martinů Also won in 1956 Photography William A. Garnett Low altitude, high-speed aerial photography Also won in 1956 and 1975 Max Yavno Poetry Edgar Collins Bogardus Carnegie Institute of Technology Writing Paul Hamilton Engle State University of Iowa Also won in 1957 and 1959 Karl Jay Shapiro Poetry Also won in 1944 Humanities American Literature Perry Dickie Westbrook New York State College for Teachers Architecture, Planning and Design Clay Lancaster Columbia University, Cooper Union, and Metropolitan Museum of Art Influence of eastern art upon modern decorative arts and architectural design Also won in 1964 University of Texas Climate influences in architecture in various US regions With Victor Olgyay Victor Olgyay Princeton University With Aladár Olgyay Edwin Daisley Thatcher Ancient Roman methods of radiant heating by means of warm air Biography William Clyde DeVane Yale University Robert Browning Francis Joseph Byrne Hackett Walter Magnes Teller Joshua Slocum British History James Alexander Gibson Carleton College Constitution of Canada Garrett Mattingly Columbia University Political, military, and diplomatic events centering on the defeat of the Spanish Armada Also won in 1936, 1945, and 1960 Caroline Robbins Bryn Mawr College Transmission of the English tradition of liberty Classics Marion Elizabeth Blake Mosaic pavements of Roman Italy Also won in 1927 and 1929 Henry Snyder Gehman Princeton Theological Seminary History of religious thought Virginia Randolph Grace Kourion excavations in Cyprus Also won in 1938 Mabel L. Lang Bryn Mawr College Changing standards of weights and measures throughout Athenian history Robert Lorentz Scranton Emory University The architectural development of medieval Corinth in Greece Kurt von Fritz Columbia University Development of Greek historiography East Asian Studies Arthur William Hummel Library of Congress Annotating the journal of Harriet Low, 1829-1834 Edward Hetzel Schafer University of California, Berkeley Chinese medieval civilization Also won in 1968 Benjamin Isadore Schwartz Harvard University Intellectual development of modern China from the end of the 19th century until the Communist assumption of power Arthur Frederick Wright Stanford University Sui dynasty, 589-617 AD English Literature Kathleen Coburn University of Toronto Unpublished writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Also won in 1956 Rudolf B. Gottfried Indiana University Historical writing in England, 1500-1625 Gordon Sherman Haight Yale University Letters of George Eliot Also won in 1946 and 1960 Alfred Harbage Harvard University Methods of staging and acting Shakespeare's plays Also won in 1965 Charlton Hinman Also won in 1954 James Gilmer McManaway Folger Shakespeare Library Life of William Shakespeare Edgar F. Shannon Jr. Harvard University Tennyson's literary career Ernest Sirluck University of Chicago Milton's political theory in relation to the Puritan Revolution Fine Arts Research University of Louisville Tilman Riemenschneider Also won in 1956 Charles de Tolnay Princeton University Artistic conceptions of Leonardo da Vinci and their origin Also won in 1948 and 1949 Irene Emery Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology Structure of primitive textiles James Thomas Flexner History of American painting, 1760-1830 Also won in 1980 George Howard Forsyth Jr. University of Michigan Paleochristian architecture Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan University of Pennsylvania Early Pennsylvania architecture and town planning, 1680-1750 Ernst Kitzinger Harvard University History of early-Christian and Byzantine arts Richard Krautheimer Also won in 1950 and 1963 Robert L. Van Nice Harvard University Byzantine architecture Nathalia Wright University of Tennessee Horatio Greenough Folklore and Popular Culture Tristram Potter Coffin Denison University American folklore Frederic Ramsey Jr. Afro-American music of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, 1860-1900 Also won in 1955 French History William Farr Church Brown University Political thought in 17th-century France Also won in 1945 and 1948 French Literature Margaret Gilman Bryn Mawr College The conception of poetry, and related problems, in French literature, 1700-1850 General Nonfiction Marion Lena Starkey University of Connecticut Social, economic, and political aspects of Shay's Rebellion, 1786-1787 Also won in 1958 German and East European History St. Lawrence University Heinrich von Treitschke Chester Verne Easum University of Wisconsin History of the Hohenzollern Empire, 1871-1918 Robert George Leeson Waite Williams College German nationalism since World War II German and Scandinavian Literature Heinrich Meyer Muhlenberg College Benedictus Spinoza and his critics Victor Amandus Oswald, Jr University of California, Los Angeles Samuel Dickinson Stirk University of Manitoba Friedrich August Wolf Latin American Literature Clinton H. Gardiner Washington University in St. Louis Martín Lopez, Hernán Cortés' master shipbuilder Linguistics Robert Anderson Hall Jr. Cornell University Melanesian and Australian Pidgin English Also won in 1970 Anna Granville Hatcher Johns Hopkins University Comparative syntax Literary Criticism Cleanth Brooks Yale University Literary criticism in relation to literary history and literary scholarship Also won in 1960 Wallace Warner Douglas Northwestern University William Wordsworth Also won in 1972 William York Tindall Columbia University Literary symbol in our time Leonard Howard Unger University of Minnesota Possible uses for literary theory of certain of Freud's terms and concepts Medieval Literature Alfred L. Kellogg Rutgers University Development of Chaucer's philosophical ideas James Hinton Sledd University of Chicago Development of colloquial English in England and America Music Research Angela Diller Mills College Music teaching, with special reference to the piano Eta Harich-Schneider Japanese court music Also won in 1954 and 1955 Near Eastern Studies Benno Landsberger University of Chicago Ancient languages and cultures of the Near East Also won in 1956 Hal Lehrman Studies in Israel Also won in 1951 Philosophy Arthur Walter Burks University of Michigan Foundations of scientific inference Columbia University Secularization of the structures in Christian theology in the philosophic and economic systems of Hegel and Marx Charles Frankel Philosophy of history and politics, with special reference to the foundations of liberalism Sidney Hook New York University Impact of Marxist philosophy on contemporary European thought Also won in 1928 and 1929 Raymond Klibansky McGill University History of platonism Also won in 1965 Ruth C. B. Marcus Application of modal logic Religion Robert McQueen Grant University of Chicago Early Christian thought Also won in 1950 and 1959 William Henry Paine Hatch Greek manuscripts of the New Testament Also won in 1951 Russian History Bertram D. Wolfe Also won in 1949 and 1950 Slavic Literature Wiktor Weintraub Harvard University History of Polish literature from the Middle Ages to 1939 Spanish and Portuguese Literature Américo Castro Princeton University European thought and history in the 16th century University of Pennsylvania European criticism of Spanish literature Hayward Keniston Duke University (visting) Francisco de los Cobos Edwin Jack Webber University of California, Berkeley Origins of the Spanish drama United States History Arthur Eugene Bestor Jr. University of Illinois Intellectual life in the colonial period in America Also won in 1961 Arthur Alphonse Ekirch Jr. American University History of the liberal tradition in the US Robert Reed Ellis US Army Corps of Engineers Corps of Engineers of the Confederate States of America Robert Douthat Meade Randolph Macon Woman's College Patrick Henry Also won in 1960 Carl Parcher Russell Also won in 1952 Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Werner Goldsmith University of California, Berkeley Phenomena incident to the collision of two solid bodies James Harold Wayland California Institute of Technology Complex fluid flow Astronomy and Astrophysics Arthur Robert Kantrowitz Cornell University Dynamics of gases at very high temperatures, a problem relating to flight speed Samuel Silver University of California, Berkeley Diffraction of electromagnetic waves by aperatures in an infinite plane sheet Also won in 1960 Chemistry Leonard Gascoigne Berry Queen's College Crystal structure analysis relating to their atomic arrangement in minerals Virgil Carl Boekelheide University of Rochester Structure of curariform alkaloids George Jura University of California, Berkeley Solid-state physics Lester Touby Kurtz University of Illinois Soil magnesium Oscillographic techniques involving cobalt complexes Also won in 1961 Robert Stanley Livingston University of Minnesota Process of photosynthesis Robert Ghormley Parr Carnegie Institute of Technology Electronic structure of molecules Allen Brewster Scott Oregon State College Magnetic and optical qualities of color centers in ionic crystals John Clark Sheehan Massachusetts Institute of Technology Isolation and synthesis of peptides David Henry Templeton University of California, Berkeley Crystal chemistry in rare-earth compounds Also won in 1968 Marjorie Jean Vold University of Southern California Nature and magnitude of forces operative between colloidal particles William E. Wallace University of Pittsburgh Properties of solid solutions Earth Science George F. Carter Johns Hopkins University Soils, terraces, time, and archaeology in the San Diego region, with reference to the antiquity of man in America John Chambers Crowell University of California, Los Angeles Large-scale tectonic displacements in the Alps Hans Albert Einstein University of California, Berkeley Sediment transport by flowing water Maurice Ewing Columbia University Fluidity in the core of the earth Also won in 1938 and 1939 David Grover Frey Indiana University Microfossils in the sediments of lakes in east-central Australia Charles Merwin Gilbert University of California, Berkeley Sediments formed as a result of mountain-making Colin Osborne Hutton Stanford University Australian and New Zealand rare-earth minerals Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich US Geological Survey Taxonomic studies of the foraminifera Brian H. Mason Indiana University Certain igenous rocks in the Kaikōura Mountains Also won in 1968 Walter Munk Scripps Institution of Oceanography Effect of winds on ocean currents Also won in 1948 and 1962 John Verhoogen University of California, Berkeley Temperature distribution and internal composition of the earth Also won in 1960 Engineering Harry Donald Conway Cornell University Plane stres