List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1948
One hundred and twelve Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1948. Twenty-five of the artists and scholars were from California, the most from any state.
1948 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Theodore Ward | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Saul Bellow | Also won in 1955 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Sam Byrd | Also won in 1946 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James Farl Powers | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jean Stafford | Also won in 1945 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | William Woods | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Marguerite Young | ||
| Creative Arts | Film | Francis Lee | ||
| Creative Arts | Film | John Hales Whitney | Also won in 1947 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eugene Berman | Also won in 1946 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sue Fuller | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Allan Capron Houser | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Victoria Hutson Huntley | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mitchell Jamieson | Also won in 1946 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Reuben Tam | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Denny Winters | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Nicolai Tichanovitch Berezowsky | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Romeo Cascarino | Also won in 1949 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Leon Kirchner | Also won in 1949 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hubert Weldon Lamb | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | H. Owen Reed | ||
| Creative Arts | Photography | Ansel Adams | Also won in 1946, 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | James A. Fitzsimmons | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Douglas Valentine LePan | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kenneth Rexroth | Also won in 1949 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Peter R. Viereck | Also won in 1954 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Charles John Olson | Also won in 1939 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Norman Holmes Pearson | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Robert Woods Kennedy | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Hugh Sinclair Morrison | ||
| Humanities | British History | David Harris Willson | Also won in 1941, 1943, 1963 | |
| Humanities | Classics | John Petersen Elder | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Louise Adams Holland | ||
| Humanities | Dance Studies | Edwin Denby | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Wing-tsit Chan | ||
| Humanities | Economic History | Louis Morton Hacker | Also won in 1958 | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Robert Sabatino Lopez | Also won in 1951 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Erskine Hankins | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Louis L. Martz | Also won in 1981 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ada Nisbet | Also won in 1954 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark Schorer | Also won in 1941, 1942, 1973 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Charles de Tolnay | Also won in 1949, 1953 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Horst Woldemar Janson | Also won in 1955 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Marvin Chauncey Ross | Also won in 1938, 1939, 1952 | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Bertrand Harris Bronson | Also won in 1943, 1944 | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Harold Courlander | Also won in 1955 | |
| Humanities | French History | William Farr Church | Also won in 1945, 1953 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Jean-Albert Bédé | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | William Kenneth Cornell | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | |||
| Humanities | French Literature | |||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Sally Carrighar | Also won in 1949 | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Joseph Kinsey Howard | Also won in 1947 | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Charles Calvert Bayley | ||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Engel Sluiter | ||
| Humanities | Italian History | Antonio Pace | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Yakov Malkiel | Also won in 1959, 1966 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Eric Russell Bentley | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Edwin Honig | Also won in 1962 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wilbur Samuel Howell | Also won in 1957 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Josephine Miles | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | |||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | |||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Ruth J. Dean | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Elliott [Van Kirk Dobbie] | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Theodor Ernst Mommsen | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Helaine Newstead | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | John C. Pope | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Arnold Williams | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Stephen Davidson Tuttle | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | |||
| Humanities | Music Research | |||
| Humanities | Philosophy | William Frankena | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Richard T. Arnold | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Robert E. Connick | Also won in 1958 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Antoine Giguère | Also won in 1946 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Michael Peech | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Walter Munk | Also won in 1953, 1962 | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Claude Charles Chevalley | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Irving Kaplansky | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Norman Levinson | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Henry Shepard Fuller | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Doris Phelps Orwin | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Erwin Chargaff | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roy Philip Forster | Also won in 1955 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Choh Hao Li | ||
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | James Mather Sprague | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ellsworth Dougherty | Also won in 1945 | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Henry Mickey | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Julian Knause Knipp | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Lawrence Rogers Blinks | Also won in 1939, 1957 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Orville Thomas Bonnett | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Pierre Dansereau | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Ralph Emerson | Also won in 1956 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Adriance Sherwood Foster | Also won in 1941 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Roy Wesley Nixon | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harold Ignatius Paul Olmo | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Charles Madeira Rick, Jr. | Also won in 1950 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Ismael Vélez | ||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | John Lawrence Angel | ||
| Social Science | Economics | George Vickers Haythorne | ||
| Social Science | Economics | John Perry Miller | ||
| Social Science | Economics | Paul Samuelson | ||
| Social Science | Economics | Warren Candler Scoville | Also won in 1955 | |
| Social Science | Law | Samuel Edmund Thorne | Also won in 1951, 1956 | |
| Social Science | Political Science | Robert W. Frase | ||
| Social Science | Political Science | George Francis Gilman Stanley | ||
| Social Science | Psychology | Joseph Barrell | ||
| Social Science | Psychology | Robert Ward Leeper | ||
| Social Science | Psychology | Gregory H. Razran | ||
| Social Science | Psychology | Hans Wallach |