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

CategoryField of StudyFellowNotesRef
Creative ArtsDrama and Performance ArtTheodore Ward
Creative ArtsFictionSaul BellowAlso won in 1955
Creative ArtsFictionSam ByrdAlso won in 1946
Creative ArtsFictionElizabeth Bruce Hardwick
Creative ArtsFictionJames Farl Powers
Creative ArtsFictionJean StaffordAlso won in 1945
Creative ArtsFictionWilliam Woods
Creative ArtsFictionMarguerite Young
Creative ArtsFilmFrancis Lee
Creative ArtsFilmJohn Hales WhitneyAlso won in 1947
Creative ArtsFine ArtsEugene BermanAlso won in 1946
Creative ArtsFine ArtsSue Fuller
Creative ArtsFine ArtsAllan Capron Houser
Creative ArtsFine ArtsVictoria Hutson Huntley
Creative ArtsFine ArtsMitchell JamiesonAlso won in 1946
Creative ArtsFine ArtsReuben Tam
Creative ArtsFine ArtsDenny Winters
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionNicolai Tichanovitch Berezowsky
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionRomeo CascarinoAlso won in 1949
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionLeon KirchnerAlso won in 1949
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionHubert Weldon Lamb
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionH. Owen Reed
Creative ArtsPhotographyAnsel AdamsAlso won in 1946, 1959
Creative ArtsPhotographyJames A. Fitzsimmons
Creative ArtsPoetryDouglas Valentine LePan
Creative ArtsPoetryKenneth RexrothAlso won in 1949
Creative ArtsPoetryPeter R. ViereckAlso won in 1954
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureCharles John OlsonAlso won in 1939
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureNorman Holmes PearsonAlso won in 1956
HumanitiesArchitecture, Planning and DesignRobert Woods Kennedy
HumanitiesArchitecture, Planning and DesignHugh Sinclair Morrison
HumanitiesBritish HistoryDavid Harris WillsonAlso won in 1941, 1943, 1963
HumanitiesClassicsJohn Petersen Elder
HumanitiesClassicsLouise Adams Holland
HumanitiesDance StudiesEdwin Denby
HumanitiesEast Asian StudiesWing-tsit Chan
HumanitiesEconomic HistoryLouis Morton HackerAlso won in 1958
HumanitiesEconomic HistoryRobert Sabatino LopezAlso won in 1951
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureJohn Erskine Hankins
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureLouis L. MartzAlso won in 1981
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureAda NisbetAlso won in 1954
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureMark SchorerAlso won in 1941, 1942, 1973
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchCharles de TolnayAlso won in 1949, 1953
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchHorst Woldemar JansonAlso won in 1955
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchMarvin Chauncey RossAlso won in 1938, 1939, 1952
HumanitiesFolklore and Popular CultureBertrand Harris BronsonAlso won in 1943, 1944
HumanitiesFolklore and Popular CultureHarold CourlanderAlso won in 1955
HumanitiesFrench HistoryWilliam Farr ChurchAlso won in 1945, 1953
HumanitiesFrench LiteratureJean-Albert Bédé
HumanitiesFrench LiteratureWilliam Kenneth Cornell
HumanitiesFrench Literature
HumanitiesFrench Literature
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionSally CarrigharAlso won in 1949
HumanitiesGeneral NonfictionJoseph Kinsey HowardAlso won in 1947
HumanitiesGerman and East European HistoryCharles Calvert Bayley
HumanitiesIberian and Latin American HistoryEngel Sluiter
HumanitiesItalian HistoryAntonio PaceAlso won in 1960
HumanitiesLinguisticsYakov MalkielAlso won in 1959, 1966
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismEric Russell BentleyAlso won in 1967
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismEdwin HonigAlso won in 1962
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismWilbur Samuel HowellAlso won in 1957
HumanitiesLiterary CriticismJosephine Miles
HumanitiesLiterary Criticism
HumanitiesMedieval Literature
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureRuth J. Dean
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureElliott [Van Kirk Dobbie]
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureTheodor Ernst Mommsen
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureHelaine Newstead
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureJohn C. Pope
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureArnold Williams
HumanitiesMusic ResearchStephen Davidson Tuttle
HumanitiesMusic Research
HumanitiesMusic Research
HumanitiesPhilosophyWilliam Frankena
Natural ScienceChemistryRichard T. Arnold
Natural ScienceChemistryRobert E. ConnickAlso won in 1958
Natural ScienceChemistryPaul Antoine GiguèreAlso won in 1946
Natural ScienceChemistryMichael Peech
Natural ScienceEarth ScienceWalter MunkAlso won in 1953, 1962
Natural ScienceMathematicsClaude Charles Chevalley
Natural ScienceMathematicsIrving Kaplansky
Natural ScienceMathematicsNorman Levinson
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthHenry Shepard Fuller
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthDoris Phelps Orwin
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyErwin Chargaff
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyRoy Philip ForsterAlso won in 1955
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyChoh Hao Li
Natural ScienceNeuroscienceJames Mather Sprague
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyEllsworth DoughertyAlso won in 1945
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyGeorge Henry Mickey
Natural SciencePhysicsJulian Knause Knipp
Natural SciencePlant ScienceLawrence Rogers BlinksAlso won in 1939, 1957
Natural SciencePlant ScienceOrville Thomas Bonnett
Natural SciencePlant SciencePierre Dansereau
Natural SciencePlant ScienceRalph EmersonAlso won in 1956
Natural SciencePlant ScienceAdriance Sherwood FosterAlso won in 1941
Natural SciencePlant ScienceRoy Wesley Nixon
Natural SciencePlant ScienceHarold Ignatius Paul Olmo
Natural SciencePlant ScienceCharles Madeira Rick, Jr.Also won in 1950
Natural SciencePlant ScienceIsmael Vélez
Social ScienceAnthropology and Cultural StudiesJohn Lawrence Angel
Social ScienceEconomicsGeorge Vickers Haythorne
Social ScienceEconomicsJohn Perry Miller
Social ScienceEconomicsPaul Samuelson
Social ScienceEconomicsWarren Candler ScovilleAlso won in 1955
Social ScienceLawSamuel Edmund ThorneAlso won in 1951, 1956
Social SciencePolitical ScienceRobert W. Frase
Social SciencePolitical ScienceGeorge Francis Gilman Stanley
Social SciencePsychologyJoseph Barrell
Social SciencePsychologyRobert Ward Leeper
Social SciencePsychologyGregory H. Razran
Social SciencePsychologyHans Wallach

1948 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows