One hundred and twelve Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1948. Twenty-five of the artists and scholars were from California, the most from any state.
1948 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Theodore Ward Wrote play that would become John Brown Fiction Saul Bellow University of Minnesota Writing Also won in 1955 Sam Byrd University of North Carolina Also won in 1946 Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick James Farl Powers Jean Stafford Also won in 1945 William Woods Marguerite Young Film Francis Lee John Hales Whitney Experimental works in abstract animated sound film Also won in 1947 Fine Arts Eugene Berman Paintings and studies of Baroque architecture in Latin countries Also won in 1946 Sue Fuller Museum of Modern Art Printmaking Allan Capron Houser Haskell Institute Sculpture and painting at the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation Victoria Hutson Huntley Mitchell Jamieson Painting Also won in 1946 Reuben Tam Denny Winters Music Composition Nicolai Tichanovitch Berezowsky Composing Romeo Cascarino Also won in 1949 Leon Kirchner University of California, Berkeley Also won in 1949 Hubert Weldon Lamb Wellesley College H. Owen Reed Michigan State College Photography Ansel Adams America's national parks and monuments Also won in 1946, 1959 James A. Fitzsimmons Color photography Poetry Douglas Valentine LePan High Commission of Canada, London Writing Kenneth Rexroth Also won in 1949 Peter R. Viereck Smith College Also won in 1954 Humanities American Literature Charles John Olson Narrative writing Also won in 1939 Norman Holmes Pearson Yale University Edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's letters Also won in 1956 Architecture, Planning and Design Robert Woods Kennedy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Development of a new method of teaching design Hugh Sinclair Morrison Dartmouth College History of American architecture from the colonial period to the present British History David Harris Willson University of Minnesota Biography on James I Also won in 1941, 1943, 1963 Classics John Petersen Elder Harvard University Vatican Mythographers Louise Adams Holland Bryn Mawr College Study of the cults of Janus and Vesta "on the basis of the topography, climatic conditions and needs of the primitive city of Rome" Dance Studies Edwin Denby Comparative study of European and American ballet East Asian Studies Wing-tsit Chan Dartmouth College Neo-Confucianism in China, 11th to 20th centuries Economic History Louis Morton Hacker Columbia University American post-Civil War generation, 1865-1900, in industrial and intellectual terms Also won in 1958 Robert Sabatino Lopez Yale University History of the guilds of southern European manufacturers of coins from the 4th to 15th century Also won in 1951 English Literature John Erskine Hankins University of Kansas Backgrounds of Shakespeare's philosophy Louis L. Martz Yale University English religious poetry during the 16th and 17th centuries in relation to the Continental movement toward methodical religious meditation Also won in 1981 Ada Nisbet University of California, Los Angeles Basic trends in the social and intellectual relations between England and America in the early Victorian period Also won in 1954 Mark Schorer University of California, Berkeley Book on techniques of fiction and completion of a novel Also won in 1941, 1942, 1973 Fine Arts Research Charles de Tolnay Institute for Advanced Study Monograph on Michelangelo, 1534-1564 Also won in 1949, 1953 Horst Woldemar Janson Washington University in St. Louis Works of Donatello Also won in 1955 Marvin Chauncey Ross Walters Art Gallery Alfred Barye Also won in 1938, 1939, 1952 Folklore and Popular Culture Bertrand Harris Bronson University of California, Berkely Musical-literary companion to Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads Also won in 1943, 1944 Harold Courlander New York State Department of State Life of the Indigenous peoples of South Africa Also won in 1955 French History William Farr Church Brown University Political thought in 17th century France Also won in 1945, 1953 French Literature Jean-Albert Bédé Columbia University 1948 in Europe, particularly France William Kenneth Cornell Yale University History of the French Symbolist movement Washington University in St. Louis Development and structure of Diderot's thought Brown University Pierre de Ronsard and the Hellenic Renaissance in France General Nonfiction Sally Carrighar Study of Alaskan wildlife in preparation for a book that would become Icebound Summer (1953) Also won in 1949 Joseph Kinsey Howard Book about the Métis people Also won in 1947 German and East European History Charles Calvert Bayley McGill University Consolidation of the College of Electors in Germany in the 14th century Iberian and Latin American History Engel Sluiter University of California, Berkeley Dutch-Iberian colonial rivalry in the 17th century Italian History Antonio Pace Syracuse University Benjamin Franklin and Italy Also won in 1960 Linguistics Yakov Malkiel University of California, Berkeley Historical study of Hispanic word formation, including old and modern Portuguese, and dialectical varieties in the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America Also won in 1959, 1966 Literary Criticism Eric Russell Bentley University of Minnesota Nature of dramatic art Also won in 1967 Edwin Honig University of New Mexico Comparative studies of "certain works of epical and allegorical imagination in European literature" since Edmund Spenser Also won in 1962 Wilbur Samuel Howell Princeton University Historical survey on the theory of poetry and rhetoric in England and America, 1530-1900 Also won in 1957 Josephine Miles University of California, Berkeley History of English poetic language, specifically the 16th to 20th centuries Brooklyn College Modern Hebrew Palestinian literature Medieval Literature University of California, Berkeley Arabic astronomy in the Middle Ages Ruth J. Dean Mount Holyoke College Descriptive catalogue of Anglo-Norman manuscripts in Europe and North America Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie Columbia University Editions of Beowulf and Judith Theodor Ernst Mommsen Princeton University Petrarch's historical works and ideas Helaine Newstead Hunter College Development of the Tristan legend in the Middle Ages John C. Pope Yale University History of the Anglo-Saxon period of English literature Arnold Williams Michigan State College Intellectual background of 14th-century English literature Music Research Stephen Davidson Tuttle University of Virginia Keyboard works of the English Virginalist composers Michigan State College Certain popular patterns of Renaissance music and their tradition in English and America, from Elizabethan times to present Columbia University Beethoven's autograph compositions and sketches Philosophy William Frankena University of Michigan History of ethical thought and moral philosophy in Great Britain and the US Natural Science Chemistry Richard T. Arnold University of Minnesota Stereochemistry Robert E. Connick University of California, Berkeley Complexion formation Also won in 1958 Paul Antoine Giguère Laval University Molecular structure of hydrogen peroxide by the spectroscopic method Also won in 1946 Michael Peech Cornell University Soil chemistry and soil-plant relationships Earth Science Walter Munk Scripps Institute of Oceanography Effect of wind stress upon ocean currents, with an emphasis on transient conditions Also won in 1953, 1962 Mathematics Claude Charles Chevalley Princeton University Theories of Lie groups Irving Kaplansky University of Chicago Topological rings Norman Levinson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Non-linear differential equations Medicine and Health Henry Shepard Fuller University of North Carolina Taxonomy and distribution of the mites of the family Trombiculidae, in relation to their transmission of diseases Doris Phelps Orwin Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Reproductive and gynecological physiology Molecular and Cellular Biology Erwin Chargaff Columbia University Chemistry of lipoproteins and nucleoproteins and their role in cellular structure and specificity Roy Philip Forster Dartmouth College Kidney functions Also won in 1955 Choh Hao Li University of California, Berkeley Physico-chemical nature of growth and adrenocorticotropic hormones isolated from the anterior lobe of the pituitary Neuroscience James Mather Sprague Johns Hopkins University Medical School Anatomical organization of the spinal motor system Organismic Biology and Ecology Ellsworth Dougherty Evolution and genetics of Rhabditida nematodes Also won in 1945 George Henry Mickey Louisiana State University Genetic and cytological effects of treatment of the germ cells in Drosophila melanogaster with X-ray and UV radiation Physics Julian Knause Knipp Iowa State University Energy loss of fast ions in their passage through matter Plant Science Lawrence Rogers Blinks Stanford University Photochemistry of phycoerythrin Also won in 1939, 1957 Orville Thomas Bonnett University of Illinois Developmental morphology and histology of the tassel and ear of types of maize Pierre Dansereau University of Montreal Taxonomy of vascular plants, emphasizing the mechanism of evolution Ralph Emerson University of California, Berkeley Mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction in aquatic fungi Also won in 1956 Adriance Sherwood Foster Morphology of certain tropical plants, particularly of the genus Mouriri Also won in 1941 Roy Wesley Nixon US Department of Agriculture Ecological study of date varieties in French North Africa Harold Ignatius Paul Olmo University of California, Davis Indigenous fruit and nut varieties of Persia and Afghanistan, with the purpose of introducing seeds and selon material into California for use in fruit breeding Charles Madeira Rick, Jr. Tomato species of the Andean region of South America and of California from the point of view of their breeding mechanisms Also won in 1950 Ismael Vélez Polytechnic Institute of San Germán Herbaceous vegetation of the Caribbean archipelago, with an emphasis on the taxonomy and ecology of the herbaceous spermatophytes Social Science Anthropology and Cultural Studies John Lawrence Angel Jefferson Medical College Biological history of the inhabitants of Ancient Greece Economics George Vickers Haythorne Department of Labour at Ottawa Conditions necessary for developing and maintaining full employment in Canadian agriculture John Perry Miller Yale University Theory of markets and prices Paul Samuelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics of inflationary conditions Warren Candler Scoville University of California, Los Angeles "Effects upon French industry and economic life of the persecution and migration of the Huguenots before and after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes" Also won in 1955 Law Samuel Edmund Thorne Yale University School of Law Court of Chancery and the Court of Star Chamber during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, with a special emphasis on the transition from medieval to modern law Also won in 1951, 1956 Political Science Robert W. Frase Harvard University Proposals for international control of atomic energy George Francis Gilman Stanley University of British Columbia Governmental policy towards the Canadian Indian Psychology Joseph Barrell Pomfret School Book: A Philosophical Study of the Human Mind Robert Ward Leeper University of Oregon Psychology of personality Gregory H. Razran Queens College, New York Interrelations between attitudinal controls and conditioned responses in humans Hans Wallach Swarthmore College Psychology of perception
1948 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows