List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954
Two hundred and forty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1954.
1954 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Merce Cunningham | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performing Arts | W. Denis Johnston | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Stephen Becker | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Julius Horwitz | Also won in 1965 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh | Also won in 1946 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Kenneth Callahan | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Naum Gabo | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward L. Haber | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Joseph Lasker | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Harold Paris | Also won in 1953 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Bernard Perlin | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | |||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Williams Taylor | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Louis Calabro | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Lou Silver Harrison | Also won in 1952 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alan Hovhaness | Also won in 1953 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hunter Johnson | Also won in 1941 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Benjamin George Lees | Also won in 1966 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Julia Amanda Perry | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert L. Sanders | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Eugene Herbert Weigel | ||
| Creative Arts | Photography | Wright Morris | Also won in 1942, 1946 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | John Szarkowski | Also won in 1961 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jorge Guillén | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Anthony Evan Hecht | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | May Sarton | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Peter R. Viereck | Also won in 1948 | |
| Humanities | American History | Carl Julius Bode | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Edwin H. Cady | Also won in 1975 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | David Howard Dickason | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Andrew Reuben Hilen, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Kenneth John Conant | Also won in 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930 | |
| Humanities | Biography | Mary Wells Knight Ashworth | ||
| Humanities | Biography | Samuel Flagg Bemis | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | British History | Margaret Atwood Judson | ||
| Humanities | British History | Russell Amos Kirk | ||
| Humanities | British History | Arthur Maheux | ||
| Humanities | British History | Conyers Read | Also won in 1951 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Also won in 1966 | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Truesdell Sparhawk Brown | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Evelyn Byrd Harrison | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Berthe Marie Marti | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Ben Edwin Perry | Also won in 1930 | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | James Irving Crump | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Stanley K. Hornbeck | ||
| Humanities | Economic History | Rondo Emmett Cameron | Also won in 1969 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ralph Cohen | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Charlton Hinman | Also won in 1953 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Samuel Frederick Johnson | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Ada Nisbet | Also won in 1948 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | |||
| Humanities | English Literature | Ernest Albert Strathmann | Also won in 1946 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edward Surtz | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | |||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Jane Costello Goldberg | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Sydney Joseph Freedberg | Also won in 1949 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Frederick Hartt | Also won in 1946 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Charles Seymour, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Paul Stover Wingert | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Adja Yunkers | Also won in 1949 | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Marius Barbeau | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | French History | Arthur Layton Funk | ||
| Humanities | French History | Louis R. Gottschalk | Also won in 1928 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Victor H. Brombert | Also won in 1969 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Lester G. Crocker | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Nathan Edelman | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Norman Lewis Torrey | Also won in 1932 | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | James Baldwin | ||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Marguerite Higgins | ||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Oscar W. Koch | ||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | David T. W. McCord | ||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | John Edward Pfeiffer | Also won in 1952 | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Hajo Holborn | Also won in 1961 | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Arthur May | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Stuart P. Atkins | Also won in 1968 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Bernhard Blume | Also won in 1963 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Heinrich Edmund Karl Henel | Also won in 1951 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Jack Madison Stein | Also won in 1962 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | |||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Carl Benjamin Boyer | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Charles Coulston Gillispie | Also won in 1970 | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Thomas S. Kuhn | ||
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Carl Emil Schorske | ||
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Ernst Pulgram | Also won in 1962 | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Charles S. Singleton | Also won in 1950, 1962 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Yuen Ren Chao | Also won in 1968 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Mark J. Dresden | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Joseph Harold Greenberg | Also won in 1982 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Mary Ethel Dichmann | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Samuel Holt Monk | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Lewis Pearson Simpson | ||
| Humanities | Medieval History | Bryce Lyon | Also won in 1972 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Cora Elizabeth Lutz | Also won in 1949 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Robert Armstrong Pratt | Also won in 1946 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | David Dodge Boyden | Also won in 1966, 1970 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | William Loran Crosten | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Eta Harich-Schneider | Also won in 1953, 1955 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Paul Henry Lang | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Kenneth Levy | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Frederick William Sternfeld | ||
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Theodor Herzl Gaster | Also won in 1959 | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ann Perkins | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Vianney Décarie | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Mortimer R. Kadish | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Armand Augustine Maurer, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Reidar Thomte | ||
| Humanities | Religion | Robert Friedmann | ||
| Humanities | Religion | Abraham Joshua Heschel | ||
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Sears Reynolds Jayne | Also won in 1969 | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Craig R. Thompson | Also won in 1942, 1955, 1968 | |
| Humanities | Russian Studies | John Shelton Curtiss | ||
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Elias Denissoff | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Enrique Anderson Imbert | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Joaquín Casalduero | Also won in 1944 | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | |||
| Humanities | United States History | Oscar Handlin | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Henry Lumpkin | ||
| Humanities | United States History | John Francis McDermott | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Walter Prescott Webb | Also won in 1938 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Rubin Richard Wohl | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Henry George Booker | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Harold Levine | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Chia-Chiao Lin | Also won in 1960 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Milton Denman Van Dyke | ||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | John Barrows Irwin | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Berni Julian Alder | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Fred Basolo | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Donald James Cram | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Paul J. Flory | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Herbert Sander Gutowsky | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lester Guttman | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Donald Frederick Hornig | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | David Newton Hume | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Walter McClellan Lauer | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Chester Thomas O'Konski | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | George Claude Pimentel | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John D. Roberts | Also won in 1952 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Max Tofield Rogers | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Frederick Sager | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Lane Scott | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Harrison Shull | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Walter H. Stockmayer | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Charles Gardner Swain | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Stanley Gerald Thompson | Also won in 1965 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Geoffrey Wilkinson | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Mathew K. Wilson | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Lloyd Arnold Brown | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Kenneth Edward Caster | Also won in 1943, 1955 | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John Wyatt Durham | Also won in 1965 | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Albert E. J. Engel | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Fritiof Melvin Fryxell | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Edward H. Graham | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Cornelius Searle Hurlbut, Jr. | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Hans Jenny | Also won in 1942 | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Peter H. Misch | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Bryan Patterson | Also won in 1951 | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Joanne Malkus Simpson | Appointed as Joanne Starr Malkus | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Herbert Edgar Wright, Jr. | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Neal Russell Amundson | Also won in 1975 | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Joseph William Johnson | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Osman Kamel Mawardi | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Dennis Granville Shepherd | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Nelson Wax | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Arthur Henry Waynick | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Douglas George Chapman | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Shiing-Shen Chern | Also won in 1966 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Magnus Rudolph Hestenes | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ellis Robert Kolchin | Also won in 1961 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Friederich Ignaz Mautner | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Hans Rademacher | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Maxwell A. Rosenlicht | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Alexander Weinstein | Also won in 1955 | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Arpad Istvan Csapo | ||
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Ladislas J. Meduna | ||
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert Oliver Scow | ||
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Julian Tobias | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Werner Bergmann | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Harza Burris | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Louis-Paul Dugal | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hans Gaffron | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Frank R. N. Gurd | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Donald James Hanahan | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Teru Hayashi | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Norman H. Horowitz | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Bruce Connor Johnson | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hardin Blair Jones | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Max Kleiber | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William N. Lipscomb | Also won in 1972 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Hamilton Livermore | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Peter Reed Morrison | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Leslie Neal | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hans Neurath | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Man Chiang Niu | Also won in 1955 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Esmond Emerson Snell | Also won in 1962, 1970 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Cornelis Bernardus van Niel | Also won in 1944 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Lewis Wood | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gerard R. Wyatt | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | |||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Grover Humes | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Yoshio Kondo | Also won in 1953 | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Eugene Rabinowitch | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Edward Shearman Ross | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Henry Whiteley | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Herman Feshbach | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Henry M. Foley | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William A. Fowler | Also won in 1961 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David H. Frisch | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | George Fred Koster | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John Henry Manley | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Norman F. Ramsey, Jr. | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lewis Judson Stannard, Jr. | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John C. Wheatley | Also won in 1980 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William M. Woodward | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Robert Wayne Allard | Also won in 1960 | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Grant Cottam | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Herbert Bashford Currier | Also won in 1961 | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Ralph O. Erickson | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Roy N. Jervis | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | George Hill Mathewson Lawrence | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jacob Levitt | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Harlan Lewis | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Marion Ownbey | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Johannes Max Proskauer | ||
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Edward Kemp Vaughan | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Richard Stockton MacNeish | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Hallam Leonard Movius, Jr. | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Eveline Mabel Burns | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | John P. Carter | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Edgar Owen Edwards | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Walter Galenson | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Alexander Gerschenkron | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Leo Grebler | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Melvin Warren Reed | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lloyd George Reynolds | Also won in 1966 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | George Joseph Stigler | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lorie Tarshis | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Friedrich August von Hayek | ||
| Social Sciences | Law | Max Rheinstein | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Robert Kenneth Carr | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Karl Deutsch | Also won in 1971 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Leslie W. Dunbar | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Carl J. Friedrich | Also won in 1951 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Arthur Maass | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Bertus Harry Wabeke | ||
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Clarence J. Pfaffenberger | Also won in 1953 | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Nathan Glazer | Also won in 1966 | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Malcolm Jarvis Proudfoot | ||
| Social Sciences | Sociology | George Lee Simpson, Jr. |