One hundred twenty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1947. [1] [2] A total of $310,000 was disbursed. [3] The University of California received the highest number of fellowships given to a single institution. [4]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institution | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Charles Edward Weidman | Choreographic pieces dealing with human values, particularly small group choreography on James Thurber's Fables for Our Time | [5] | ||
| Fiction | Ralph Bates | Writing | [6] | |||
| Eleanor Clark | Rome and a Villa (published 1952) | Also won in 1950 | [7] | |||
| J. R. Humphreys | Columbia University | Writing | [8] | |||
| Roger Lemelin | Also won in 1946 | [9] | ||||
| Isaac Rosenfeld | [10] | |||||
| Robert Penn Warren | University of Minnesota | Also won in 1939 | [11] [2] [12] [6] | |||
| Film | John Hales Whitney | Experimental work in abstract sound film | Also won in 1948 | [3] | ||
| Fine Arts | Frank Davenport Duncan | Also won in 1945 | [13] | |||
| Xavier Gonzalez | Painting | [14] | ||||
| Philip Guston | Washington University in St. Louis | Also won in 1968 | [15] [16] | |||
| Donal Hord | Sculpture | Also won in 1945 | [3] | |||
| Jack Nichols | Painting | [9] | ||||
| Alexander Peter Russo | Bard College | Also won in 1949 | [17] | |||
| Mitchell Siporin | Also won in 1945 | [18] | ||||
| Rudolph Charles von Ripper | Etching and drawing | Also won in 1945 | [19] [20] | |||
| Music Composition | Samuel Barber | Composing | Also won in 1945, 1949 | [21] | ||
| Edward T. Cone | [22] | |||||
| Ross Lee Finney | Smith College | Also won in 1937 | [19] | |||
| Gian Carlo Menotti | Also won in 1946 | [23] | ||||
| Jerome Moross | Also won in 1949 | [3] [22] | ||||
| Alex North | [22] | |||||
| Harold Samuel Shapero | Also won in 1946 | [19] [24] | ||||
| Louise Juliette Talma | Also won in 1946 | [25] | ||||
| Photography | Wayne Forest Miller | Black Chicagoans | Also won in 1946 | [26] [27] | ||
| Poetry | Elizabeth Bishop | Writing | Also won in 1978 | [28] | ||
| Gwendolyn Brooks | Also won in 1946 | [29] [30] [31] | ||||
| Robert Lowell | [32] | |||||
| Edward Ronald Weismiller | Also won in 1943 | [3] | ||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Daniel Aaron | Smith College | American progressive tradition as seen in the writings of Parker, George, Bellamy, Lloyd, Rauschenbusch, Howells and Veblen | [19] [33] | |
| John Wendell Dodds | Stanford University | The Age of Paradox: A Biography of England 1841-1851 (published 1952) | [3] [33] | |||
| Alfred Kazin | Also won in 1940, 1958, 1969 | [6] | ||||
| Arlin Turner | Duke University | Also won in 1959 | [34] | |||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | Carl Kenneth Hersey | University of Rochester | [35] | |||
| Carroll Louis Meeks | Yale University | Historical development of railroad stations as examples of architectural solutions to meet new needs | [20] | |||
| Biography | Shirley Graham | Anne Newport Royall and her contribution to the American mind | [31] [33] | |||
| Jeannette Mirsky | Eli Whitney and the impact of his inventive and business ability in the history of the United States | Also won in 1949 | [36] [33] | |||
| British History | William Haller | Barnard College | Thought and expression in the Puritan Revolution | Also won in 1950, 1956 | [37] [33] | |
| Jack H. Hexter | Queens College, CUNY | Change in the structure of 16th-century European society | Also won in 1942, 1979 | [38] [33] | ||
| Arthur J. Marder | Also won in 1941, 1946 | [39] | ||||
| Charles Loch Mowat | University of California, Los Angeles | History of Great Britain from Armistice Day to the evacuation of Dunkirk | [4] [3] [33] | |||
| Classics | Malcolm Francis McGregor | University of Cincinnati | History of the ancient Athenian Empire | [40] [41] [33] | ||
| Friedrich Solmsen | Cornell University | [42] | ||||
| English Literature | David V. Erdman | Wayne State University | Social change in England, 1789-1806, as it influenced and was influenced by the writers of the time | [43] [44] [33] | ||
| G. Blakemore Evans | University of Wisconsin | Manuscript of miscellanies or commonplace books of English verse from 1550 to 1700 contained in the principal libraries and private collections in the United States | [12] | |||
| Edward Lippincott McAdam, Jr | New York University | Dr. Johnson and the English Law (published 1951) | [45] | |||
| William Andrew Ringler, Jr | Princeton University | Also won in 1957 | [46] | |||
| Hallett D. Smith | Williams College | [19] | ||||
| Fine Arts Research | Sumner McKnight Crosby | Yale University | Excavations in the Basilica of Saint-Denis to gather evidence for a book on the Abbey of Saint-Denis | [20] | ||
| Alfred Victor Frankenstein | San Francisco Chronicle | William Michael Harnett | [47] | |||
| Paul Frankl | Institute for Advanced Study | History of Gothic architecture | [48] [33] | |||
| José López-Rey | Smith College | Drawings of Francisco de Goya | Also won in 1960, 1967 | [19] | ||
| Theodore Sizer | Yale University | Biography of John Trumbull | [49] [20] | |||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Elaine O'Beirne-Ranelagh | Completion of two books: one on New York City folk songs, and one on Irish folk songs | [50] [51] | |||
| French History | Paul Harold Beik | Swarthmore College | Conflicting social philosophies in the French Revolution | Also won in 1949 | [52] [33] | |
| French Literature | Wallace Fowlie | University of Chicago | Critical and interpretive study of Stéphane Mallarmé's poetry | Also won in 1961 | [5] | |
| Jeanne Varney Pleasants | Columbia University | French speech, its intonations and rhythm | [37] | |||
| General Nonfiction | Joseph Kinsey Howard | Métis Nation of northwestern United States and western Canada | Also won in 1948 | [53] [33] | ||
| K. Laurence Stapleton | Bryn Mawr College | The general ideas on which democracy depends and the setting and atmosphere of democracy today as they appear to the private citizen | [54] | |||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | Richard Alewyn | Queens College, CUNY | [55] | |||
| History of Science and Technology | James R. Newman | Also won in 1946 | [56] | |||
| Latin American Literature | José Juan Arrom | Yale University | Spanish American drama and its relation to other literature | Also won in 1964 | [20] | |
| Robert Hayward Barlow | National School of Anthropology and History | History of the empire of Montezuma | Also won in 1946 | [57] [33] | ||
| Linguistics | Wolf Leslau | École libre des hautes études | Language, traditional history, and folklore of Ethiopia | Also won in 1946 | [58] [51] | |
| Literary Criticism | Richard Volney Chase | Connecticut College | Herman Melville's thought and the allegory and symbols he used to express his thought | Also won in 1962 | [19] [20] | |
| Lionel Trilling | Columbia University | Critical essays on English and American subjects | Also won in 1975 | [6] [37] | ||
| Medieval Literature | Alexander J. Denomy | University of Toronto | Mystical philosophy of Avicenna and its place in the medieval Christian world | [9] [33] | ||
| Francis Lee Utley | Ohio State University | Apocryphal stories of the flood | Also won in 1946, 1952 | [41] [51] | ||
| Music Research | Helen Margaret Hewitt | North Texas State College | Secular choral music of Italy in the late 15th century | [59] | ||
| Dragan Plamenac | [60] | |||||
| Walter H. Rubsamen | University of California, Los Angeles | Historical and stylistic study of music of 18th-century ballad operas in England and the United States | Also won in 1957 | [4] [3] | ||
| Philosophy | Herbert Feigl | University of Minnesota | Philosophical and methodological problems of psychology | [12] | ||
| Carl Gustav Hempel | Queens College, CUNY | [61] | ||||
| Paul Henle | Northwestern University | [62] | ||||
| Richard Otto Hertz | University of Dubuque | Theory of value based on aesthetics | [63] | |||
| Henry M. Rosenthal | Cooper Union | [64] | ||||
| Photography Studies | Beaumont Newhall | Museum of Modern Art | The History of Photography, 1839 to the Present (published 1948) | Also won in 1975 | [65] | |
| United States History | Edwin Morris Betts | University of Virginia | Edition of Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book | [66] [33] | ||
| Dorothy Burne Goebel | Hunter College, CUNY | British Free Ports policy and the American West Indian Interest, 1765-1815 | [67] [33] | |||
| Richard B. Morris | City College of New York | Economic and legal status of free indentured, and slave labor in the United States before the American Civil War | Also won in 1961, 1982 | [68] [33] | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Science | George L. Kreezer | Also won in 1945 | [69] | ||
| Chemistry | Thomas L. Jacobs | University of California, Los Angeles | Polymerization of acetylenes | [4] [3] | ||
| Milton Orchin | Research at the Sieff Institute | [70] | ||||
| Verner Schomaker | California Institute of Technology | Molecular structure | [3] | |||
| David P. Shoemaker | Electronic structure of metals | [71] [3] | ||||
| James Curren Warf | Iowa State College | Physico-inorganic chemistry of certain metallic hydrides | [63] | |||
| Earth Science | Henry Paul Hansen | Oregon State College | Paleobotanical study of post-glacial forest migrations and climate in western Canada, based on analyses of fossil pollen gathered in peat bogs in the area | Also won in 1943 | [72] | |
| John Sinclair Stevenson | British Columbia Department of Mines | Ores and rocks in British Columbia Coast mountain ranges | [9] | |||
| Mathematics | Warren Ambrose | Yale University | Algebras of locally-compact topological groups | [20] | ||
| Garrett Birkhoff | Harvard University | Hydrodynamics | [19] [24] | |||
| Paul Halmos | University of Chicago | Research at the Institute for Advanced Studies | [73] [74] | |||
| Saunders Mac Lane | Harvard University | Borderline between algebra and algebraic tophography | Also won in 1982 | [19] [75] [24] | ||
| Walter H. Pitts | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cybernetics | Also won in 1945 | [76] | ||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Britton Chance | University of Pennsylvania | Research with Hugo Theorell in Stockholm | Also won in 1945 | [77] [78] | |
| Gordon Mackinney | University of California, Davis | [4] | ||||
| Berta Scharrer | [79] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr | Harvard University | Ground beetles, with an emphasis on the Carabidae family | Also won in 1956 | [19] [24] | |
| Joseph Hickey | University of Michigan | Banded birds and their life expectancy in the wild, their turnover population in nature and other facts of value to conservationists | Also won in 1944 | [44] | ||
| I. Michael Lerner | University of California, Davis | Also won in 1952, 1956 | [4] | |||
| Pincus Philip Levine | Cornell University | Research at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies | [80] | |||
| Earle Gorton Linsley | University of California, Davis | [4] | ||||
| James Hubert Pepper | Montana State College | Biochemical and physical study of the exoskeleton of the Mormon cricket, from the standpoint of insect control | [53] [81] | |||
| Alexander Sprunt, Jr | National Audubon Society | Reference book on birds of South Carolina | [82] | |||
| Physics | Francis Arthur Jenkins | Also won in 1932, 1958 | [4] | |||
| Plant Science | Alexander Cyril Faberge | University of Wisconsin | Conditions influencing gene mutation | [12] | ||
| Gustav A. Mehlquist | Washington University in St. Louis | Problems of orchid breeding | [16] | |||
| Ernest Rouleau | University of Montreal | Flora of Newfoundland | [9] | |||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Sherburne Friend Cook | University of California, Berkeley | Also won in 1938 | [83] [4] [84] | |
| Anna Hadwick Gayton | Espírito Santo Festival of the California Portuguese | [84] [51] | ||||
| George Herzog | Columbia University | Music in primitive cultures | Also won in 1935 | [37] [84] [51] | ||
| Alice Marriott | Nambé Indian Pueblo in New Mexico | Also won in 1960 | [84] [51] | |||
| Morris Swadesh | Linguistic Circle of New York | Language and ethnology of the "Nootka Indians" of Vancouver Island | Also won in 1946 | [84] [51] | ||
| Charles F. Voegelin | Indiana University | American Indian languages | [2] [84] [51] | |||
| Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin | "Native American and Eskimo" unwritten literature | [2] [84] [51] | ||||
| Economics | Morris Eugene Garnsey | University of Colorado | Economy of the mountain states | [85] | ||
| Wolfgang F. Stolper | Swarthmore College | [86] | ||||
| Siegfried V. Wantrup | University of California, Davis | Also won in 1951 | [4] | |||
| Political Science | Robert Taylor Cole | Duke University | Effects of the wartime social, economic, and political change on the public personnel of Canada | Also won in 1942 | [87] | |
| Sherman Kent | Yale University | Problems of national strategic intelligence operations | [20] [33] | |||
| Psychology | Fritz Heider | Smith College | Also won in 1951 | [19] | ||
| Alexander H. Leighton | Cornell University | Comparative study of cultural and personality data dealing with "Navajo Indians, Eskimos, and Japanese" | Also won in 1945 | [84] [51] | ||
| Dorothea Leighton | [84] [51] | |||||
| Bernard Frank Riess | Hunter College, CUNY | [88] |
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