Sixty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1943. [1] [2] This year, fewer fellowships were awarded so funds could be saved for scholars unable to apply due to the war. [3]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Martha Graham | Choreography to music by Carlos Chavez and Aaron Copland | Also won in 1932, 1944 | [4] [5] [6] [7] | |
| Fiction | Hugh MacLennan | Lower Canada College | Novel about Canadian life during the period 1917 to 1940 | [8] | ||
| Vladimir Nabokov | Permanente Yard 2 | His experience in France during World War II | Also won in 1952 | [9] | ||
| Vladimir Pozner | [10] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Donald Harcourt De Lue | Sculpture | Also won in 1944 | [11] | ||
| Dean Fausett | Painting: Murals for the United States Air Force | Also won in 1942 | [2] | |||
| Joseph Hirsch | Posters for the Red Cross, the Office of War Information, the Army Emergency Relief, and the Office of Emergency Management | Also won in 1942 | [12] [5] | |||
| Dong Kingman | Painting: America at war | Also won in 1942 | [13] [14] [5] [6] | |||
| Mauricio Lasansky | Work at Atelier 17 in New York | Also won in 1944, 1945, 1953, 1964 | [15] | |||
| Sidney Loeb | Sculpture | [16] | ||||
| Oronzio Maldarelli | Also won in 1931 | [17] | ||||
| Ira Moskowitz | Drawing | [18] | ||||
| Music Composition | Arthur Kreutz | University of Texas | Composition | Also won in 1945 | [19] [5] [20] | |
| Normand Lockwood | Oberlin Conservatory of Music | Also won in 1944 | [5] [21] | |||
| Harry Partch | Also won in 1944, 1950 | [19] | ||||
| Poetry | Jeremy Ingalls | Western College for Women | Writing | [21] | ||
| Muriel Rukeyser | [22] | |||||
| José Garcia Villa | [5] [6] | |||||
| Edward Ronald Weismiller | Harvard University | Also won in 1947 | [20] | |||
| Humanities | American Literature | William Charvat | New York University | [23] | ||
| John T. Flanagan | University of Minnesota | Literature of the Middle West from 1820 | [24] | |||
| Harry T. Levin | Harvard University | Symbolism in American fiction | Also won in 1944 | [6] [7] | ||
| Madeleine B. Stern | Also won in 1944 | [25] | ||||
| Randall Stewart | Brown University | Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne | [26] [7] | |||
| Hugh Mason Wade | Intellectual awakening of French Canada | Also won in 1944 | [6] [7] | |||
| Architecture, Planning, and Design | Eric Mendelsohn | [27] | ||||
| Biography | Signe Kirstine Toksvig | Emanuel Swedenborg | [3] [7] | |||
| British History | Wilbur Kitchener Jordan | University of Chicago | History of English thought in the 17th century | [5] | ||
| David Harris Willson | University of Minnesota | Biography of James I | Also won in 1941, 1948, 1963 | [5] [24] | ||
| Classics | Esther V. Hansen | Elmira College | The Attalids of Pergamum (published 1947) | [28] | ||
| Eric Alfred Havelock | University of Toronto | Also won in 1941 | [29] [8] | |||
| English Literature | George W. Meyer | Western Reserve University | William Wordsworth's artistic and philosophic development | [5] [21] | ||
| George Frank Sensabaugh | Stanford University | History of ideas of 17th-century England | [5] | |||
| Film, Video and Radio Studies | Siegfried Kracauer | From Caligari to Hitler (published 1947) | Also won in 1944, 1945 | [30] | ||
| Fine Arts Research | Walter Friedländer | New York University | Comprehensive monograph on Caravaggio and his period | [31] | ||
| Elizabeth McCausland | American artists, colonial to present | [32] [7] | ||||
| George Alexander Kubler | Yale University | Changing architecture of 16th-century colonial Mexico | Also won in 1952, 1956 | [5] [6] [3] [7] | ||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Bertrand Harris Bronson | University of California | English and Scottish ballads | Also won in 1944, 1948 | [5] | |
| Luc Lacourcière | Laval University | French Canadian folksongs and folklore | [8] [33] | |||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Kathleen Martin Romoli | Colonial history of Colombia's Pacific coast | [34] | |||
| Linguistics | Helge Kökeritz | University of Minnesota (visiting) | English Shakespearian speech | Also won in 1950 | [5] [20] | |
| Music Research | Colin McPhee | Balinese music | Also won in 1942 | [35] | ||
| Philosophy | David Frederick Bowers | [6] | ||||
| Richard Booker Brandt | Princeton University | Work by Ralph Waldo Emerson | [5] | |||
| Albert Hofstadter | New York University | History of empiricism | [36] | |||
| John Robert Reid | Stanford University | Moral philosophy | [5] | |||
| Philip Blair Rice | Kenyon College | Ethics and humanist theory | [5] [21] | |||
| United States History | Ray Allen Billington | Smith College | History of expansion of American settlements from the Atlantic to Mississippi | [37] [7] | ||
| Lawrence Averell Harper | University of California | Economic activities and governmental regulations in the English American colonies | [5] | |||
| Fred Harvey Harrington | University of Arkansas | Diplomatic growth of the United States | [5] | |||
| Townsend Scudder III | Swarthmore College | Biographical history of Concord, Massachusetts | [5] [6] [37] [7] | |||
| Dixon Wecter | University of California, Los Angeles | Relationship of soldiers to the civilian population after the United States' three major wars | Also won in 1942 | [5] | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Kenneth E. Caster | University of Cincinnati | Field study of paleozoic strata in northern Andes Mountains | Also won in 1954, 1955 | [5] [21] |
| Henry Paul Hansen | Oregon State College | Post-pleistocene forest succession and climate in the northwest | Also won in 1947 | [5] [20] | ||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | Glenn Thomas Trewartha | University of Wisconsin | Detailed geographic studies of certain selected type areas of Japan and China, and reconnaissance surveys of a more general nature in a limited number of larger regions | Also won in 1926 | [38] | |
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Tilly Edinger | Harvard University | Paleontological study of tooth development in reptiles and amphibians | Also won in 1944 | [6] | |
| John Francis Hanson | Massachusetts State College | Species of stoneflies in the United States | [7] | |||
| William Vogt | Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs | Peru's guano birds | [39] | |||
| Plant Sciences | Edgar Anderson | Washington University in St. Louis | Genetics of Indian corn in Mexico and Southwest United States | Also won in 1950, 1956 | [5] | |
| Emma Lucy Braun | University of Cincinnati | Ecology of deciduous forests | Also won in 1944 | [5] [21] | ||
| Floyd Alonzo McClure | Smithsonian Institution | Bamboos of the Western Hemisphere | Also won in 1942 | [40] | ||
| Social Science | Economics | Abram Lincoln Harris | Howard University | Types of economics and their current significance | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1953 | [5] [6] [39] |
| Donald Chalmers MacGregor | University of Toronto | [8] | ||||
| Political Science | John Donald Lewis | Oberlin College | American political trends since 1900 | [5] [21] | ||
| Psychology | Solomon E. Asch | Also won in 1941 | [41] | |||
| Barbara Stoddard Burks | Columbia University | Identical twins reared apart | [42] | |||
| Sociology | Samuel Delbert Clark | University of Toronto | Development of evangelical religious movements in Canada | [8] |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Teodoro Núñez Ureta | National University of San Agustín | [43] | ||
| Poetry | Octavio Paz | Writing | [44] | |||
| Humanities | Biography | Antonio Hernández Travieso | Institute of Secondary Education (Havana) | Life of Félix Varela | Also won in 1942 | [45] |
| Iberian and Latin American History | Ramón Iglesia | College of Mexico | Mexican historiography in the 16th century | Also won in 1945 | [46] | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Jaime Lifshitz Gaj | National Autonomous University of Mexico | General theory of orbits | Also won in 1942 | [47] [48] |
| Medicine and Health | Mario Autori | Fungus-growing ants of Brazil | [48] | |||
| Gabriel Gašić Livačić | [48] | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | José Antonio Goyco | School of Tropical Medicine | Production, processing, and preservation of tropical foods | [48] | ||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Raúl Cortés Peña | Ministry of Agriculture (Chile) | Methods of controlling insect pests | Also won in 1942 | [49] [48] | |
| Isabel Pérez Farfante | University of Havana | Increasing the supply of mollusks and crustaceans in Cuban waters | Also won in 1942 | [50] [48] | ||
| Fabio Leoni Werneck | Taxonomic studies of the Mallophaga of mammals | Also won in 1942 | [51] [48] | |||
| Plant Science | Juan Ignacio Valencia | National University of Cuyo | Betterment of South American forage crops | Also won in 1941, 1942 | [52] [48] | |
| Social Science | Economics | Adolfo Dorfman | Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores (Buenos Aires) | Methods of classifying and interpreting economic phenomena | Also won in 1944 | [53] |
| Raúl García | National University of Córdoba | Agrarian policy in the United States | Also won in 1945 | [54] |