Three hundred and three scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959. More than $1,400,000 was disbursed.
1960 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Pearl Lang Pearl Lang Dance Theater Also won in 1969 Drama and Performance Art Joshua Greenfeld Creative writing Fiction John Berry Writing John Cheever Also won in 1951 Mary Lee Settle Also won in 1957 David Derek Stacton Also won in 1966 Harvey Swados Sarah Lawrence College Donald Windham Fine Arts Harold Altman University of Wisconsin–Madison Drawing and printmaking Also won in 1961 David Aronson Boston University Donald S. Bloom Piscataway Schools Painting Howard Bradford Printmaking Byron Burford University of Iowa Painting in Holland and England Leonard Edmondson Pasadena City College Creative printmaking Elias Friedensohn Queens College Sculpting Kahlil Gibran Also won in 1959 Frank Gonzalez Painting John Paul Jones University of California, Los Angeles Lithographs Seymour Lipton Sculpture Yutaka Ohashi School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Painting Also won in 1959 William Pachner Painting George Warren Rickey Newcomb College, Tulane University Sculpting Also won in 1961 Ulfert Wilke University of Louisville Painting Also won in 1959 Music Composition Milton Babbitt Princeton University Composing Ingolf Dahl University of Southern California Also won in 1951 Paul Fetler University of Minnesota Also won in 1953 Andrew W. Imbrie University of California, Berkeley Also won in 1953 John La Montaine Also won in 1959 Marvin David Levy Also won in 1964 Salvatore John Martirano Robert Moffat Palmer Cornell University Also won in 1952 William Overton Smith University of Southern California Also won in 1961 Virgil Thomson Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky Columbia University Also won in 1956 Hugo Weisgall Pennsylvania State University Also won in 1955, 1966 Photography Lee Friedlander Changing American scene Also won in 1962, 1977 Helen Levitt Color photography Also won in 1959, 1981 Poetry Jane Marvel Cooper Sarah Lawrence College Writing Jean Garrigue Humanities American Literature Hennig Cohen University of Pennsylvania Mark Twain's career as a Washington newspaper correspondent and its influence upon his literary development Philip Calvin Durham University of California, Los Angeles The hero in American literature William Henry Gilman University of Rochester Definitive edition of the journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson Also won in 1964 Franklin Dickerson Walker Mills College Jack London Architecture, Planning and Design Albert Henry Detweiler Cornell University Effect of Lombard invasions on Roman architecture Samson Lane Faison, Jr. Williams College German and Austrian architecture of the 18th century György Kepes Massachusetts Institute of Technology Henry Hope Reed Jr. Great Chicago Fair of 1893 and its impact on American life and culture Elizabeth Wood Book on urban renewal Bibliography Antje Bultmann Lemke Syracuse University Brothers Grimm Biography Robert Cecil Bald University of Chicago John Donne Also won in 1946 Samuel Flagg Bemis Yale University Also won in 1954 William A. Swanberg Life and times of William Randolph Hearst British History George Hilton Jones, III Texas Technological College Foreign policy of James II, centering on the life of Charles, second earl of Middleton Garrett Mattingly Cooper Union Also won in 1936, 1945, 1953 Millicent Barton Rex Madeira School British Parliament from 1690-1948 Classics Frank Edward Brown Yale University Paul A. Clement University of California, Los Angeles Attic and South Italian vase-painting Washington University in St. Louis Epicureanism as a systematic philosophy Agnes K. L. Michels Bryn Mawr College Inez Scott Ryberg Vassar College History and interpretation of certain Roman panel reliefs of the Antonine period William Pitkin Wallace University of Toronto Also won in 1951 East Asian Studies John Frank Cady Ohio University History of southeast Asia Also won in 1955 Franz Schurmann University of California, Berkeley Organizational practices of the Chinese Communists, from their formative period to the present English Literature Bradford Allen Booth University of California, Los Angeles Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Haig, Jr. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Life and works of John Dunton Gordon Sherman Haight Yale University Also won in 1946, 1953 Joyce Hemlow McGill University Also won in 1951, 1966 Dan H. Laurence Shavian research Also won in 1961, 1972 Harry Thornton Moore Southern Illinois University Collected volume of D. H. Lawrence's works Also won in 1958 Charles Wickliffe Moorman Mississippi Southern College Augustinian earthly and heavenly cities in the works of certain contemporary Oxford Anglicans Constantinos A. Patrides University of California, Berkeley Milton's conception and presentation of the central themes of the Christian faith Also won in 1963 Charles Richard Sanders Duke University Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle Also won in 1972 Rolf Hans Soellner Illinois Wesleyan University Moral philosophy of the 16th century and its influence on Shakespeare's works Lionel Stevenson Duke University Symbolic elements in English fiction from Meredith to Conrad Joseph Anthony Ward, Jr Southwestern Louisiana University Henry James' conception of structure in the novel Fine Arts Research Jay R. Judson Smith College Venetian art in relation to Dutch and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries William R. Kenan, Jr. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill José López-Rey Smith College Also won in 1947, 1967 Folklore and Popular Culture Wayland D. Hand University of California, Los Angeles Dictionary of American popular beliefs and superstitions Also won in 1952 French History Paul Walden Bamford University of Minnesota Georg Gerson Iggers Dillard University, Tulane University Idea of progress in historical thought David H. Pinkney University of Missouri The French Revolution of 1830 French Literature J. Christopher Herold Stanford University Press German Romantic movement in its European context in the late 18th and early 19th centuries Judd D. Hubert University of California, Los Angeles 17th-century novel of adventure Mark J. Temmer University of California, Santa Barbara 20th century French fables Frédéric Grover Swarthmore College Pierre Drieu La Rochelle Also won in 1959 University of British Columbia Aesthetics of Baudelaire General Nonfiction Alexander Eliot German and East European History Enno Edward Kraehe University of Kentucky Development of the German Confederation as a barrier to Russian penetration into Europe Henry Cord Meyer Pomona College Comparative study of the careers and writings of Friedrich Naumann and Walther Rathenau, as illuminating certain intellectual and social dilemmas of German society in the period 1880 to 1920 German and Scandinavian Literature Hans Jaeger Indiana University Bryn Mawr College Archer Taylor University of California, Berkeley Field of historical bibliography, in particular the history of subject indexes Also won in 1927 Walter Silz Harvard University Also won in 1926 Stanley Newman Werbow University of Texas at Austin German syntax in the late medieval period Iberian and Latin American History John Leddy Phelan University of Wisconsin Spanish imperial bureaucracy, centering on career of Antonio de Morga Italian History Antonio Pace Syracuse University Also won in 1948 Italian Literature John Charles Nelson Harvard University Latin American Literature John Preston Moore Louisiana State University Life and times of Antonio de Ulloa Linguistics Morris Halle Massachusetts Institute of Technology Henry Kučera Brown University Literary Criticism Meyer H. Abrams Cornell University Role of metaphor and analogy in Western thought Also won in 1957 Cleanth Brooks Yale University William Faulkner Also won in 1953 M. L. Rosenthal New York University Also won in 1964 Maurice Valency Columbia University Also won in 1964 Medieval History John W. Baldwin University of Michigan Ethical thought and influence of the theologians in Paris of the 12th and 13th centuries Also won in 1983 Medieval Literature Vernon Judson Harward, Jr City College of New York Margaret Sinclair Ogden University of Michigan 15th century English translation of Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia Magna Bartlett Jere Whiting Harvard University Music Research Barry Shelley Brook Queens College Also won in 1969 Philip Keppler, Jr Smith College Agostino Steffani Lawrence Morton Ojai Festivals Igor Stravinsky Also won in 1959 William Stein Newman University of North Carolina History of the sonata Lewis and Clark College Johann Ernst Eberlin's music Albert Seay Colorado College History of music theory during the 15th century Near Eastern Studies Ignace Gelb University of Chicago Moshe Greenberg University of Pennsylvania American Numismatic Society Philosophy Henry David Aiken Harvard University Milton K. Munitz New York University Religion William David Davies Union Theological Seminary Also won in 1966 Langdon Brown Gilkey Vanderbilt University Relations between the Christian concept of Providence and the secular concepts interacting with it since the 17th century Also won in 1965 William R. Hutchison American University Protestant thought in the United States, 1870-1914 Clyde L. Manschreck Duke University Thought of Philip Melanchthon Renaissance History Gene Adam Brucker University of California, Berkeley Politics and society in Florence, 1382-1417 Elisabeth Feist Hirsch Trenton State College Russian History James H. Billington Harvard University Zbigniew Brzezinski Harvard University Wacław J. Solski Slavic Literature Horace Gray Lunt Harvard University Spanish and Portuguese Literature Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce Ohio State University Theory and practice of Spanish Golden Age thought, 1500-1600 Raúl Alfredo Del Piero University of California, Berkeley Unpublished works of Alfonso Martinez de Toledo University of Chicago Also won in 1973 Theatre Arts Norris Houghton Vassar College Arts of the theatre abroad Also won in 1934, 1935 Ann Hitchcock Holmes Houston Chronicle Theatre, music and art in America at mid-20th-century United States History George Athan Billias University of Maine Biography of Elbridge Gerry Henry Steele Commager Amherst College History of American nationalism Vincent P. DeSantis University of Notre Dame Political history of the United States from 1877-1897 Joseph C. Kiger University of Alabama National learned societies in the United States Albert D. Kirwan University of Kentucky Life and times of John Jordan Crittenden Robert Douthat Meade Randolph-Macon Woman's College Life and times of Patrick Henry Also won in 1953 William Gerald McLoughlin Brown University The Baptist in colonial New England Robert Edgar Riegel Dartmouth College History of American feminism James Morton Smith College of William and Mary Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions with special reference to the question of the relationship between liberty and authority in free society Marion Tinling National Historical Publications Commission William Byrd II's letters Thurman Wilkins Columbia University Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Chia-Chiao Lin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Also won in 1954 Astronomy and Astrophysics William A. Baum Palomar Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory Factors affecting the resolution of a cascaded type of image converter Marshall H. Cohen Cornell University Generation and propagation of radio waves in the sun's atmosphere Also won in 1980 George Brooks Field Princeton University Radio astronomy Paco Lagerstrom California Institute of Technology Mathematical fluid dynamics Donald E. Osterbrock University of Wisconsin Magnetohydrodynamics as applied to astrophysics Also won in 1982 Hans Panofsky Pennsylvania State University Turbulence Zdeněk Sekera University of California, Los Angeles Effec