List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1985 [1]
| Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Jane Aaron | Creative Arts | Film |
| Bruce Arnold Ackerman | Social Sciences | Law |
| Norman Adler | Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology |
| James L. Adley | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Joel Agee | Humanities | German & Scandinavian Literature |
| Gösta Werner Ahlström | Humanities | Near Eastern Studies |
| William R. Alexander | Humanities | Theatre Arts |
| Henry E. Allison | Humanities | Philosophy |
| Howard Alper | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Thomas J. Archdeacon | Humanities | U.S. History |
| José María Aricó | Social Sciences | Political Science |
| Struther Arnott | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Luis Cruz Azaceta | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Deirdre B. Bair | Humanities | French Literature |
| William A. Bardeen | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Roger Bartra | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Robert H. Bates | Political Science | |
| Charles Morley Baxter | Fiction | |
| Robert Alan Bechtle | Fine Arts | |
| Julian Beck | Theatre Arts | |
| Barbara Becker-Cantarino | Humanities | German & Scandinavian Literature |
| Eric Edward Becklin | Astronomy—Astrophysics | |
| Charles Bernstein | Poetry | |
| Marc Eli Blanchard | French Literature | |
| Peter Michael Blau | Sociology | |
| Andras J. Bodrogligeti | Linguistics | |
| Varujan Yegan Boghosian | Fine Arts | |
| Victoria E. Bonnell | Sociology | |
| Power Boothe | Fine Arts | |
| Jacobo Borges | Fine Arts | |
| Paul Bornstein | Medicine & Health | |
| Antonio Brack Egg | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| William E. Bradshaw | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Helene Brandt | Fine Arts | |
| James E. B. Breslin | Fine Arts Research | |
| Lawrence A. Brown | Geography & Environmental Studies | |
| Courtlandt D. B. Bryan | General Nonfiction | |
| Anthony Edward Buba | Creative Arts | Film |
| Richard Van Wyck Buel | U.S. History | |
| Burrell C. Burchfiel | Earth Science | |
| Leo William Buss | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Ruth Butler | Fine Arts Research | |
| John Lawrence Cardy | Physics | |
| Clive B. Carter | Engineering | |
| Matt Cartmill | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Thomas Robert Cech | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| David Chaitkin | Music Composition | |
| Min Chen | Physics | |
| Malcolm Harold Chisholm | Chemistry | |
| Noel A. Clark | Physics | |
| Mark N. Cohen | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Robert H. Colescott | Fine Arts | |
| Robert D. Cooter | Law | |
| Thomas R. Cripps | U.S. History | |
| Antony Richard Crofts | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Richard Edward Culling | Fine Arts | |
| Roberto DaMatta | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Marcos Dajczer | Mathematics | |
| Natalie Zemon Davis | French History | |
| Robert Dawidoff | U.S. History | |
| Jerry P. Dennerline | East Asian Studies | |
| William S. Di Piero | Poetry | |
| Maria Odila Silva Dias | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Annie Dillard | General Nonfiction | |
| Eugenio Dittborn | Fine Arts | |
| Miguel Donoso Pareja | Fiction | |
| W. Ford Doolittle | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Hubert Lederer Dreyfus | Philosophy | |
| Joseph Dubiel | Music Composition | |
| Nicolás Echevarría | Creative Arts | Film |
| Edwin M. Eigner | Literary Criticism | |
| Lloyd Richard Ellison | Creative Arts | Film |
| Diamela Eltit | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| John Arthur Endler | Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology |
| Louise Erdrich | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| William K. Estes | Social Sciences | Psychology |
| Richard Allan Etlin | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| John J. Ewel | Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences |
| Richard R. Fagen | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
| Richard Anderson Falk | Social Sciences | Law |
| Joel S. Feigin | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Joel Fineman | Humanities | English Literature |
| Nathaniel Joseph Fisch | Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics |
| Stanley Fischer | Social Sciences | Economics |
| Daniel Claude Fisher | Natural Sciences | Earth Science |
| Ronald Edward Fondaw | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Linda Francis | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Roberta Frank | Humanities | Medieval Literature |
| Amos Funkenstein | Humanities | Medieval History |
| Marc Galanter | Law | |
| J. Adolfo García-Saínz | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Nina G. Garsoian | Near Eastern Studies | |
| Joseph Lewis Gastwirth | Statistics | |
| Alfonso Gómez-Lobo | Philosophy | |
| M. Eric Gershwin | Medicine & Health | |
| Ralph Gibson | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Douglas Edward Gill | Plant Sciences | |
| Barbara Jean Gillam | Psychology | |
| Thomas Givón | Linguistics | |
| Tami Gold | Video & Audio | |
| Jim Goldberg | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Stephen Hardy Goodwin | Fiction | |
| David George Gorenstein | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Peter Raymond Grant | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Spalding Gray | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Samson R. Gross | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| James Corbett Hamilton | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Henry B. Hansmann | Economics | |
| David Taverner Hanson | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Joseph C. Harris | Medieval Literature | |
| Wendell V. Harris | English Literature | |
| L. Brower Hatcher | Fine Arts | |
| William E. Hatfield | Chemistry | |
| John S. Hawley | South Asian Studies | |
| H. Hugh Heclo | Political Science | |
| Richard Helgerson | English Literature | |
| John William Helton | Applied Mathematics | |
| Barbara Herman | Philosophy | |
| Errol Gaston Hill | Theatre Arts | |
| Candace Hill-Montgomery | Fine Arts | |
| Edward M. Hirsch | Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Jane B. Hirshfield | Poetry | |
| Cynthia Adams Hoover | Music Research | |
| Paul J. Hopper | Linguistics | |
| Michael Hout | Sociology | |
| Francis Clark Howell | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Lee Hyla | Music Composition | |
| Icko Iben | Natural Sciences | Astronomy—Astrophysics |
| Colette Inez | Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Alfredo Jaar | Fine Arts | |
| Elizabeth Johns | Fine Arts Research | |
| Barbara E. Johnson | French Literature | |
| Rodney Glenn Jones | Poetry | |
| Bennetta Washington Jules-Rosette | Sociology | |
| Daniel H. Kaiser | Russian History | |
| David Kalstone | American Literature | |
| Steven L. Kaplan | French History | |
| Pooh Kaye | Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Jon Edward Keeley | Plant Sciences | |
| Ulrich F. Keller | Photography Studies | |
| Sung-Hou Kim | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Jamaica Kincaid | Fiction | |
| Mary Kinzie | Poetry | |
| Janos Kirz | Applied Mathematics | |
| David Richard Knechtges | East Asian Studies | |
| Philipp P. Kronberg | Natural Sciences | Astronomy—Astrophysics |
| Richard E. Ladner | Computer Science | |
| Frederick Keithley Lamb | Astronomy—Astrophysics | |
| Anne Lamott | Fiction | |
| Shirley Lauro | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Leo Ou-fan Lee | East Asian Studies | |
| Alexander Maxwell Leggatt | English Literature | |
| Timothy Lenoir | History of Science & Technology | |
| Juan M. Lope-Blanch | Linguistics | |
| Glenn C. Loury | Economics | |
| Mary Lucier | Video & Audio | |
| Kristin Luker | Sociology | |
| Jack H. Lunsford | Chemistry | |
| Ricardo Mañé | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Jackson Mac Low | Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Roberto B. Macedo | Economics | |
| Steven Mackey | Music Composition | |
| William John MacKnight | Chemistry | |
| Robert Mahon | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Judith Malina | Theatre Arts | |
| Lawrence Manley | English Literature | |
| Paul Louis Mariani | American Literature | |
| Bonnie Marranca | Theatre Arts | |
| Andreu Mas-Colell | Economics | |
| Giuseppe F. Mazzotta | Italian Literature | |
| Charles B. McClendon | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Michael L. McCormick | Medieval History | |
| Charles William McCurdy | Law | |
| William Thomas McKinley | Music Composition | |
| Christopher C. McLeod | Creative Arts | Film |
| Jay Meek | Poetry | |
| Antonio Mendoza | Creative Arts | Photography |
| John Henry Merryman | Law | |
| Anne L. Middleton | Medieval Literature | |
| George H. Miley | Applied Mathematics | |
| Richard Joel Miller | Neuroscience | |
| John Keith Moffat | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Constantino Mpodozis | Earth Science | |
| John Michael Najemy | Humanities | Renaissance History |
| Marlos Nobre | Music Composition | |
| Gerald Nordland | Fine Arts Research | |
| Frederick M. Nunn | Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History |
| Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| William G. Oldham | Natural Sciences | Engineering |
| Toby Olson | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Janet Gretchen Osteryoung | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Merle D. Pattengill | Chemistry | |
| Ruy Pérez Tamayo | Medicine & Health | |
| Gustavo Pérez-Firmat | Latin American Literature | |
| Daniel Porte | Medicine & Health | |
| David Wixon Pratt | Chemistry | |
| James Primosch | Music Composition | |
| Frank H. Quina | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Pierre Ramond | Physics | |
| Julius Rebek | Chemistry | |
| Liam Rector | Poetry | |
| Donald Harris Regan | Philosophy | |
| Louis French Reichardt | Neuroscience | |
| Alberto Robledo | Physics | |
| Sheldon S. Rochlin | Creative Arts | Film |
| Margaret Cool Root | Near Eastern Studies | |
| David G. Roskies | Literary Criticism | |
| Judith Joy Ross | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Alejandro Rossi | General Nonfiction | |
| Jonathan David Roughgarden | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Ramón Saldívar | American Literature | |
| Rodolfo Augosto Sánchez | Plant Sciences | |
| Herbert Eli Scarf | Economics | |
| Alfons J. Schilling | Fine Arts | |
| Gary B. Schuster | Chemistry | |
| Jordan A. Schwarz | U.S. History | |
| Richard Alan Selzer | General Nonfiction | |
| Carlos Sempat Assadourian | Iberian & Latin American History | |
| Alan E. Shapiro | History of Science & Technology | |
| Alan Richard Shapiro | Poetry | |
| Martin Jay Sherwin | Science Writing | |
| Richard A. Shiff | Fine Arts Research | |
| Alex Shoumatoff | General Nonfiction | |
| Richard A. Shweder | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Yum-Tong Siu | Mathematics | |
| Antonio Skármeta | Drama & Performance Art | |
| Amos B. Smith | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| David Warner Smith | French Literature | |
| Michael A. Smith | Video & Audio | |
| Aidan W. Southall | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| George B. Stauffer | Music Research | |
| de:Piotr Steinkeller | Near Eastern Studies | |
| George F. Sterman | Physics | |
| Robert Jeffrey Sternberg | Psychology | |
| Deborah A. Stone | Political Science | |
| John F. Szwed | Humanities | Folklore & Popular Culture |
| William Theodore Tally | Creative Arts | Drama & Performance Art |
| James Tatum | Humanities | Classics |
| Dennis Ernest Tedlock | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Gerald James Toomer | Humanities | History of Science & Technology |
| Thomas E. Toon | Humanities | Linguistics |
| Guillermo Tovar de Teresa | Humanities | Fine Arts Research |
| Marvin Trachtenberg | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Ka-Kit Tung | Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics |
| Russell Howard Tuttle | Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Michael Ugarte | Humanities | Spanish & Portuguese Literature |
| Mierle Laderman Ukeles | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Douglas Arthur Unger | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Richard W. Unger | Humanities | Economic History |
| Leslie G. Valiant | Natural Sciences | Computer Science |
| Thomas Thorstein Veblen | Social Sciences | Geography & Environmental Studies |
| Edin Velez | Creative Arts | Video & Audio |
| Rafael Vicuña | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Anthony Vidler | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Bill Viola | Creative Arts | Video & Audio |
| Arturo Vivante | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Andrew G. Walder | Social Sciences | Sociology |
| Jo Ann Walters | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Rosanna Warren | Humanities | French Literature |
| Robert H. Waterston | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Reynold Henry Weidenaar | Creative Arts | Video & Audio |
| Alan David Weinstein | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Zena Werb | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| James L. W. West | Humanities | American Literature |
| Rebecca J. West | Humanities | Italian Literature |
| Kenneth Norman Wexler | Social Sciences | Psychology |
| John Joseph Wieners | Creative Arts | Poetry |
| Andrew John Wiles | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| John W. Wilkins | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| John Williams | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| William Wiser | Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Robert Michael Zaller | Humanities | British History |