Three hundred and forty-four scholars and artists were awarded a total of $1,500,000 Guggenheim Fellowships in 1957.
1957 U. S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Holger Cahill Novel writing Alfred Chester Also won in 1967 Lucy Daniels Borden Deal Herbert Gold State University of Iowa Robert Conroy Goldston Roger Lemelin Also won in 1946 Byron Herbert Reece Young Harris College Also won in 1952 Mary Lee Settle Also won in 1960 Adele Wiseman Fine Arts William Barnett Philadelphia Museum School of Art Painting Frederick G. Becker St. Louis School of Fine Arts Printmaking Virgil David Cantini University of Pittsburgh Creative design in enamels Carmen Cicero Roselle Park High School Painting Also won in 1963 Robert Aaron Frame Pasadena School of Fine Arts Paul Theodore Granlund Minneapolis School of Art Sculpture Also won in 1958 Dimitri Hadzi Barbara Hult Lekberg University of the Arts in Philadelphia Also won in 1959 Max Loehr University of Michigan Joseph S. Sheppard Dickinson College Painting Music Composition Dominick Argento University of Minnesota Composing Also won in 1964 Mark Bucci Also won in 1953 Chou Wen-chung Columbia University Also won in 1959 Jacob Druckman Also won in 1968 Earl George Syracuse University Peggy Glanville-Hicks Also won in 1955 Edmund Thomas Haines Sarah Lawrence College Also won in 1956 Attilio Joseph Macero TEO Productions Also won in 1958 Ned Rorem Also won in 1978 Robert Starer Juilliard School Also won in 1963 Gregory Tucker Massachusetts Institute of Technology David Van Vactor University of Tennessee, Knoxville Juilliard School Interpretive dance number King's Heart Photography John Collier Jr. Uses of photography in social sciences W. Eugene Smith Also won in 1956, 1968 Poetry Paul Hamilton Engle University of Iowa Writing Also won in 1953, 1959 Marcia Nardi Alastair Reid Also won in 1958 Jonathan C. Williams Recording annals and writing the archaeology and other phases of the Etowah Indian Mounds from the poet's point of view Humanities American Literature Curtis Dahl Wheaton College 19th century archaeological discoveries in relation to the cultural history of the West Charles Andrew Fenton Yale University Completion of previously started biography about Stephen Vincent Benét Robert Clay Humphrey University of North Carolina, Greensboro Role of the poet in mid-century America Henry Dan Piper California Institute of Technology Northwestern University Louis Decimus Rubin Jr. Richmond News Leader Key themes and formal concepts in the literature of the South Albert Douglass Van Nostrand Brown University Richard Walser North Carolina State College Regional basis of literary interpretations of the South Architecture, Planning and Design W. Burlie Brown Tulane University American architectural thought and expression, 1865-1914 William Bell Dinsmoor Allan Bernard Temko San Francisco Chronicle, University of California, Berkeley Architecture on the West Coast of the United States Bibliography Ernst Maximilian Posner American University History of archives administration Biography Flora Anne Armitage Clark University Laura Fermi Benito Mussolini British History Joseph O. Baylen Delta State College W. T. Stead John Leonard Clive Harvard University Transition from 18th to 19th century thought and opinion in England Paul H. Hardacre Vanderbilt University Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon J. Jean Hecht Haverford College The upper-class family in 18th century England Gustave Lanctot Ottawa University Also won in 1956 Arthur J. Marder University of Hawaii English seapower in the 20th century Also won in 1941, 1946 Classics Darrell Arlynn Amyx University of California, Berkeley Greek vase painting Also won in 1973 George Eckel Duckworth Princeton University Virgil as the poet of Augustan Rome University of North Dakota Also won in 1964 Philip Levine Harvard University Paul Lachlan MacKendrick University of Wisconsin Roman colonization in the Republican period John Brodie McDiarmid University of Washington Lionel Pearson Stanford University Popular ethics in ancient Greece Wilson Gerson Rabinowitz University of California, Berkeley Certain writings by Aristotle Renata von Scheliha Musical and poetical contests of the Greeks Herbert Chayyim Youtie University of Michigan Scholarly use of papyrological literature East Asian Studies Shih-Hsiang Chen University of California, Berkeley Historical study of Chinese literature James Robert Hightower Harvard University Emanuel Sarkisyanz Bishop College Buddhist influence on Burmese social thought Robert Shafer University of California Sino-Tibetan languages English Literature Donald Lemen Clark Also won in 1944 Arthur Morse Eastman University of Michigan Suspended judgement in Shakespeare's plays Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves University of Arkansas Samuel Richardson Richard David Ellmann Northwestern University Also won in 1949, 1970 Arthur Friedman University of Chicago 18th century literature Donald Johnson Greene University of California, Riverside Relation between English literature and politics in the 18th century Also won in 1979 Bruce Harkness University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Influence of certain English publishing firms on authors in the 20th century Benjamin B. Hoover University of Washington Relationship of literature and politics in 18th century England Richard Meredith Hosley University of Missouri Elizabethan stage and methods of presenting plays John Henderson Long Morehead State College Shakespeare's use of performed music in his plays Thomas Francis Parkinson University of California, Berkeley Later poetry by William Butler Yeats Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford University of Texas 19th century literary forgeries Also won in 1929, 1937 Irving Ribner Tulane University Shakespeare's growth and development as a writer of tragedy William Andrew Ringler Jr. Washington University in St. Louis Complete poetical works of Sir Philip Sidney; history of Tudor poetry Also won in 1947 Robert Wentworth Rogers University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alexander Pope Eleanor Rosenberg Barnard College Literature in the New World as known in Tudor England John Calhoun Stephens Jr. Emory University Richard Steele and Joseph Addison as editors of The Guardian Wilfred Healey Stone Stanford University E. M. Forster Also won in 1967 Alvin Whitley University of Wisconsin Victorian popular poetry Fine Arts Research Mills College Naturalistic elements in medieval art John Goldsmith Phillips Metropolitan Museum Works of Andrea del Verrocchio and the young Leonardo da Vinci Harvard University Aline B. Saarinen The New York Times Pauline Simmons Folklore and Popular Culture George Korson Pennsylvania Folklore Society Anthracite region David Park McAllester Wesleyan University Navajo ceremonial chants Donald Knight Wilgus Western Kentucky University History of the Anglo-American ballad since 1898 French Literature Joel Colton Duke University Léon Blum and French Socialism Carl Albert Viggiani Wesleyan University Works by Albert Camus French Literature Connecticut College Contemporary Franco-German literary relations Durand Echeverria Brown University Meaning of liberty in French thought of the 18th century Emory University French novel of the 18th century Armand Hoog Princeton University Georges J. Joyaux Michigan State University Influence of North African writers on contemporary French letters Félix-Antoine Savard Haverford College Attitudes and values of villages in two contrasting regions of rural France German and East European History Klemens von Klemperer Smith College Alternatives to the Anschluss of Austria German and Scandinavian Literature Robert Livingston Beare Sigurd Burckhardt Ohio State University Comparative study of the dramatic poetry of Shakespeare and Goethe Walter G. Johnson University of Washington Research in Stockholm Also won in 1964 James Woodrow Marchand Washington University in St. Louis Dating Old High German and Gothic manuscripts André von Gronicka Columbia University Also won in 1969 Werner Vordtriede University of Wisconsin Conception of the poet in German Romanticism History of Science and Technology Giorgio Diaz de Santillana Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vincenzio Viviani Iberian and Latin American History Ernest Joseph Burrus St. Louis University Documents in Italian archives bearing on Latin American history Joseph Newman Watt Stewart New York State College for Teachers Business activities of Minor Cooper Keith in Costa Rica Intellectual and Cultural History Walter M. Simon Cornell University History of European positivism in the 19th century Gertrude Himmelfarb Development of Darwin's thought and of contemporary response to his work Also won in 1955 Frank Edward Manuel Brandeis University Mythology and primitive religion in 18th century thought Literary Criticism Meyer H. Abrams Cornell University Also won in 1960 John Jacob Enck University of Wisconsin Restoration comedy Martin Price Yale University Ideas of order in representative 18th century English writers Also won in 1971 Wilbur Samuel Howell Princeton University Theories of logic and rhetoric in 18th century England Also won in 1948 Joseph Holmes Summers University of Connecticut Milton's Paradise Lost Medieval Literature Albert B. Friedman Harvard University Also won in 1965 Paul Murray Kendall Ohio University Warwick the Kingmaker Also won in 1961 Durant Waite Robertson Jr. Princeton University Poetry of Chaucer in the light of medieval tradition Music Research Karl J. Geiringer Boston University Michigan State University Italian instrumental ensemble music of the early 17th century Walter H. Rubsamen University of California, Los Angeles 15th century Italian vocal music Also won in 1947 Eric Werner Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Liturgy and their influence on the history of church and synagogue music Near Eastern Studies George Makdisi University of Michigan History of Islamic socio-religious movements in the 11th century Also won in 1966 Jacob J. Rabinowitz Hebrew University Arthur Võõbus Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary Syrian monasticism from the 2nd to the 5th century, A.D. Also won in 1958, 1968 Philosophy Lewis White Beck University of Rochester Immanuel Kant's ethical theory Burton Spencer Dreben Harvard University William Bernard Peach Duke University Richard Price and British moral philosophy Religion Ralph Harper Bard College Also won in 1965 John Thomas McNeill Union Theological Seminary Works of John Calvin Renaissance History University of Oregon The concept of 'the learned poet' in Renaissance England Paul O. Kristeller Columbia University Philosophical and humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance from the 14th to the 16th centuries Also won in 1968 Russian History Marc Raeff Clark University The nobility's relationships to the Russian state, 1725-1861 Also won in 1987 Science Writing Donald Greame Kelley Slavic Literature Victor Erlich University of Washington Research in London and Bristol Also won in 1964, 1976 Yale University Russian short story Spanish and Portuguese Literature Ohio State University Literary style of Miguel de Unamuno Sherman Hinkle Eoff Washington University in St. Louis Philosophic attitudes of 19th and 20th century novels, with particular emphasis on the emotional impact of modern science on the literary mind Princeton University Blanco White Brown University Intellectual history of modern Spain Also won in 1950 Juan Marichal Bryn Mawr College Manuel Azaña Also won in 1972 Walter T. Pattison University of Minnesota United States History Robert V. Bruce Boston University 1877 railroad strikes and labor riots in the USA Lyman Henry Butterfield Harvard University Louis L. Gerson University of Connecticut Impact of American immigrant groups on US foreign policies Robert V. Hine University of California, Riverside Edward, Richard, and Benjamin Kern Also won in 1967