Two hundred and forty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1954. More than $1,000,000 was disbursed.
1954 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Merce Cunningham Also won in 1959 Fiction Stephen Becker Writing Julius Horwitz Book about Israel Also won in 1965 Virginia Sorensen Book about Danish Mormon immigrants to Utah Also won in 1946 Fine Arts Kenneth Callahan Painting Naum Gabo Kinetic constructions Edward L. Haber Joseph Lasker University of Illinois Painting Harold Paris Also won in 1953 Bernard Perlin Painting Also won in 1959 Henry Rox Mount Holyoke College Sculpture John Williams Taylor Music Composition Louis Calabro Composing Also won in 1959 Lou Silver Harrison Also won in 1952 Alan Hovhaness Also won in 1953 Hunter Johnson Also won in 1941 Benjamin George Lees Also won in 1966 Julia Amanda Perry Also won in 1956 Robert L. Sanders Eugene Herbert Weigel University of Illinois Photography Wright Morris Also won in 1942 and 1946 John Szarkowski The Idea of Louis Sullivan (published 1956) Also won in 1961 Poetry Jorge Guillén Wellesley College Clamor (published 1957) Also won in 1959 Anthony Evan Hecht Bard College Writing Also won in 1959 May Sarton Peter R. Viereck Mount Holyoke College Intellectual history, especially of 19th-century England Also won in 1948 Humanities American History Carl Julius Bode University of Maryland Mid-19th century American culture American Literature Edwin H. Cady Syracuse University William Dean Howells Also won in 1975 David Howard Dickason Indiana University Interrelations of American literature and the plastic arts in the 19th century Andrew Reuben Hilen, Jr. Architecture, Planning and Design Kenneth John Conant Harvard University Romanesque Cluny Abbey and monastery Also won in 1926, 1928, 1929, and 1930 Biography Mary Wells Knight Ashworth Finished the sixth and wrote the seventh volumes of Douglas Freeman's biography of George Washington Samuel Flagg Bemis Yale University John Quincy Adams Also won in 1960 British History Margaret Atwood Judson New Jersey College for Women History of thought in England, 1640-1660 Russell Amos Kirk Recent changes in traditional British society Arthur Maheux Laval University Lumber, pulp, and paper industries of Canada Conyers Read William Cecil, Lord Burghley Also won in 1951 Classics Harvard University Intellectual history of the age of Emperor Justinian I Also won in 1966 Truesdell Sparhawk Brown University of California, Los Angeles Hellenistic historiography Evelyn Byrd Harrison American School of Classical Studies Ancient Greek stone sculpture in Athens Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen University of California Greek federal states Berthe Marie Marti Bryn Mawr College Medieval intepretations of the Roman stoic writers Ben Edwin Perry University of Illinois Ancient Greek and Roman fables Also won in 1930 Drama and Performing Arts W. Denis Johnston Mount Holyoke College Jonathan Swift and his circle, and the writing of a play on that theme East Asian Studies James Irving Crump University of Michigan Chinese fiction Stanley K. Hornbeck Economic History Rondo Emmett Cameron University of Wisconsin European economic history Also won in 1969 English Literature Ralph Cohen University of California, Los Angeles English philosophy and literary theory in the 18th century David V. Erdman University of Minnesota Literary and social history of the romantic period in English literature Charlton Hinman Johns Hopkins University The text of Shakespeare's plays Also won in 1953 Samuel Frederick Johnson Ada Nisbet University of California, Los Angeles Charles Dickens and his relations with America Also won in 1948 University of Pennsylvania History of the London State, 1660-1800 Ernest Albert Strathmann Pomona College Prose words of Walter Raleigh Also won in 1946 Edward Surtz Loyola University Chicago Intellectual milieu of Thomas More's Utopia Fine Arts Research Bryn Mawr College Italian sources of architectural Romanticism Jane Costello New York University Poussin Sydney Joseph Freedberg Wellesley College High Renaissance style in Roman and Florentine painting Also won in 1949 Frederick Hartt Washington University in St. Louis Art of Andrea del Castagno Also won in 1946 Charles Seymour, Jr. Yale University 15th-century Italian Renaissance sculpture Paul Stover Wingert Adja Yunkers Also won in 1949 Folklore and Popular Culture Marius Barbeau French folk songs of North America Also won in 1956 French History Arthur Layton Funk University of Florida Research in France Louis R. Gottschalk University of Chicago Lafayette in the French Revolution Also won in 1928 French Literature Victor H. Brombert Yale University The intellectual as a tragic hero in the contemporary French novel Also won in 1969 Lester G. Crocker Goucher College 18th-century European ethical thought Nathan Edelman Norman Lewis Torrey Columbia University Also won in 1932 General Nonfiction James Baldwin Marguerite Higgins Communist tactics in international negotiation Oscar W. Koch Military intelligence in combat, its processes, techniques, and methods under actual battle conditions David T. W. McCord Harvard College Fund Edward Lear John Edward Pfeiffer Recent theories of structure and evolution of the universe Also won in 1952 German and East European History Hajo Holborn Yale University History of Germany since 1500 Also won in 1961 Arthur May University of Rochester History of the Hapsburg monarchy, 1914-1920 German and Scandinavian Literature Stuart P. Atkins Harvard University Development of popular moral and religious prose literature in 16th-century Germany Also won in 1968 Bernhard Blume Ohio State University Symbolism in German poetry Also won in 1963 Heinrich Edmund Karl Henel University of Wisconsin History of German poetry, 1819-1928 Also won in 1951 Jack Madison Stein Columbia University Synthesis of art as developed by Richard Wagner Also won in 1962 Yale University German literature History of Science and Technology Carl Benjamin Boyer Brooklyn College Charles Coulston Gillispie Princeton University French science Also won in 1970 Thomas S. Kuhn Harvard University Sources and preconditions of scientific conceptualization Intellectual and Cultural History Carl Emil Schorske Wesleyan College Emergence of characteristic 20th-century modes of thought in the period 1890-1914 Italian Literature Ernst Pulgram University of Michigan Linguistic history of Italy Also won in 1962 Charles S. Singleton Harvard University Poetry of Dante's Divine Comedy Also won in 1950 and 1962 Linguistics Yuen Ren Chao University of California Also won in 1968 Mark J. Dresden University of Pennsylvania Grammar of the Khotanese language Also won in 1956 Joseph Harold Greenberg Also won in 1982 Literary Criticism Mary Ethel Dichmann Southwestern Louisiana Institute Literary relationship of William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, and T. S. Eliot Samuel Holt Monk University of Minnesota Literary criticism in restoration England Lewis Pearson Simpson Louisiana State University Symbolic significance of the idea of the "republic of letters" Medieval History Bryce Lyon Harvard University Administrative institutions of medieval Western Europe Also won in 1972 Medieval Literature Cora Elizabeth Lutz Wilson College Education in the Middle Ages Also won in 1949 Robert Armstrong Pratt University of North Carolina Development of moral ideas in the Middle Ages Also won in 1946 Music Research David Dodge Boyden University of California Also won in 1966 and 1970 William Loran Crosten Stanford University Historical studies in the aesthetics and dramaturgy of opera Eta Harich-Schneider Also won in 1953 and 1955 Paul Henry Lang Kenneth Levy Princeton University French secular music of the 16th century Frederick William Sternfeld Dartmouth College Film music Near Eastern Studies Theodor Herzl Gaster Dropsie College Samaritans Also won in 1959 Ann Perkins Yale University Archaeological history of Mesopotamia Philosophy Vianney Décarie University of Montreal Man's knowledge of God according to St. Thomas Aquinas Mortimer R. Kadish Western Reserve University Considering science as part of modern cultural experience Armand Augustine Maurer, Jr. University of Toronto Latin averroism in the later middle ages and its influence on the naturalism of the renaissance Reidar Thomte Concordia College Existential categories in the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard Religion Robert Friedmann Western Michigan College 16th- and 17th-century Anabaptist Church history Abraham Joshua Heschel Jewish Theological Seminary of America Renaissance History Sears Reynolds Jayne University of California Also won in 1969 Craig R. Thompson Lawrence College Also won in 1942, 1955, and 1968 Russian Studies John Shelton Curtiss Duke University Russian Army under Nicholas I, 1825-1855 Slavic Literature Elias Denissoff University of Notre Dame Interrelationships between Eastern and Western thought Spanish and Portuguese Literature Enrique Anderson Imbert University of Michigan History of Spanish language and history Joaquín Casalduero Also won in 1944 Wesleyan College Philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey United States History Oscar Handlin Harvard University Influence of continuing settlement of the US upon social and cultural institutions Henry Lumpkin US Naval Academy Ancient Greek naval power John Francis McDermott Washington University in St. Louis Graphic artists' representations of the Middle West, 1790-1860 Walter Prescott Webb University of Texas History of the American West Also won in 1938 Rubin Richard Wohl University of Chicago American literature, success, and its influence Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Henry George Booker Cornell University Physics of the outer atmosphere Harold Levine Harvard University Chia-Chiao Lin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Theoretical fluid dynamics Also won in 1960 Milton Denman Van Dyke Stanford University Fluid mechanics Astronomy and Astrophysics John Barrows Irwin Indiana University Light-curves of southern long period Cepheid variables Chemistry Berni Julian Alder University of California Fred Basolo Northwestern University Mechanisms of substitution reactions in complexions Donald James Cram University of California, Los Angeles Transannular effects in large ring compounds Paul J. Flory Cornell University High polymer theory in relation to biological systems Herbert Sander Gutowsky University of Illinois Radio frequency and microwave spectra in relation to the structure of matter Lester Guttman University of Chicago Structure of liquid metal solutions Donald Frederick Hornig Brown University Quantum theoretical studies of molecular structure David Newton Hume Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research in Denmark Walter McClellan Lauer University of Minnesota Mechanism of substitution in the aromatic unit of organic compounds Chester Thomas O'Konski University of California George Claude Pimentel John D. Roberts California Institute of Technology Fixing of molecular nitrogen to establish chemical models of biochemical systems Also won in 1952 Max Tofield Rogers Michigan State College Molecular structure William Frederick Sager George Washington University Oxidation of organic systems by chronic acid and similar reagents Robert Lane Scott University of California, Los Angeles Nature of liquids and solutions, including those of high molecular weight Harrison Shull Iowa State College Spectral properties of substituted benzenes Walter H. Stockmayer Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dilute solutions of high polymers Charles Gardner Swain Mechanisms of organics reactions and structures of organic molecules Stanley Gerald Thompson University of California Also won in 1965 Geoffrey Wilkinson Harvard University Formation of inorganic complex compounds Mathew K. Wilson Infrared spectra of small molecules Earth Science Lloyd Arnold Brown Peabody Institute Library Histo