Two hundred and forty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1955, with grants totaling at $968,000.
1955 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Saul Bellow Bard College Writing Also won in 1948 Hortense Calisher Also won in 1952 Marie Campbell Indiana University Southern folk materials in creative writing Also won in 1944 Kermit H. Hunter Writing André Langevin Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Fine Art Edris Eckhardt Also won in 1959 Ben Kamihira Painting Also won in 1956 Seong Moy Color woodcut illustrations Hobson Pittman Painting Sahl Swarz Sculpture Also won in 1958 Donald S. Thrall Cass Technical High School Painting Music Composition Walter E. Aschaffenburg Oberlin Conservatory of Music Composing Also won in 1973 Henry Dreyfuss Brant Also won in 1946 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Also won in 1957 Hall Franklin Overton Also won in 1967 Russell Smith Hugo Weisgall Also won in 1960 and 1966 Photographer Robert Frank Photographs culminating in The Americans Also won in 1956 Todd Webb University of Texas Following the trail of the Forty Niners Also won in 1956 Poetry Barbara Gibbs Golffing Writing Also won in 1956 Barbara Howes Humanities American Literature Harold William Blodgett Union College Charles Feidelson, Jr. Yale University Aesthetics of Henry James, with special reference to his later works Joseph N. Frank Literary criticism, 1900-present Also won in 1975 Ernest Samuels Northwestern University Life and times of Henry Adams Also won in 1971 Bibliography Irene Dakin Paden Historical and bibliographical studies of the exploration and settlement of Oregon and California Biography Irvin Ehrenpreis Indiana University Jonathan Swift Also won in 1961 British History Hessel Duncan Hall Classics Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Yale University Epigraphy and languages of the Minoan and Mycenaean inscriptions James Frank Gilliam University of Iowa Auxiliaries of the Roman Imperial army Arthur Ernest Gordon University of California, Berkeley Latin inscriptions on stone of the period of the Roman Republic George Emmanuel Mylonas Washington University in St. Louis Excavations of the ancient Greek city of Eleusis Also won in 1968 James Henry Oliver Johns Hopkins University History of Athens under the rule of Rome Also won in 1946 William Kendrick Pritchett University of California, Berkeley Ancient Greek battlefields Also won in 1951 Morton Smith Brown University History of religion, particularly the Eastern Church in the 4th century AD East Asian Studies John Frank Cady Ohio University Also won in 1960 Ch'ên Shou-yi Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School History of cultural relations between Eastern Asia and the Western World in the 17th and 18th centuries Also won in 1952 Economic History Bray Hammond History of American banking from the time of the Civil War to the mid-1930s Also won in 1950 English Literature Mark Eccles University of Wisconsin Lives of Shakespeare's Warwickshire contemporaries William Irvine Stanford University Impressionism in English poetry, from Wordsworth to Browning Also won in 1962 Paul Harold Kocher Claremont Graduate School and Pomona College Interpretation of thought of Francis Bacon Also won in 1946 Carl Woodring University of Wisconsin Fine Arts Research Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Addison Gallery of American Art Horst Woldemar Janson New York University History of art and artists of the Italian Renaissance Also won in 1948 Folklore and Popular Culture Harold Courlander Also won in 1948 Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. Harvard University Frederic Ramsey, Jr. Afro-American music of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Also won in 1953 Stith Thompson Indiana University French Literature Irving Putter University of California, Berkeley Poetry of Leconte de Lisle German and East European History Friedrich Engel-Janosi Catholic University of America Relations between the Vatican and the Habsburg monarchy German and Scandinavian Literature Liselotte Dieckmann Washington University in St. Louis Hieroglyphics as a literary symbol George Clarence Schoolfield University of Buffalo The musician as a figure in German creative literature Detlev Walther Schumann University of Illinois French emigrees in Schleswig-Holstein around 1800 History of Science and Technology Eugene Maximilian Karl Geiling Marie Boas Hall Brandeis University Cyril Stanley Smith University of Chicago Historical study of the development of metallurgy Also won in 1978 Glenn Allen Sonnedecker University of Wisconsin Influence of new drugs, found in the New World, upon European medicine and pharmacy Intellectual and Cultural History Gertrude Himmelfarb Also won in 1957 Henry Stuart Hughes Stanford University Development of social and moral ideals in Western Europe, 1890-1930 Sweet Briar College Intellectual history of Europe in the 20th century Italian Literature Bernard Weinberg Northwestern University Italian Renaissance literary criticism Also won in 1945 Latin American Literature Robert Cooper West Louisiana State University Historical-geographical studies of mining activities in central Mexico and Honduras during the early Spanish period Linguistics Peter Alexis Boodberg Also won in 1938 and 1963 Denzel Raybourne Carr University of California, Berkeley Malayan and Indonesian languages Henry R. Kahane University of Illinois Linguistic system of modern Greek Also won in 1962 Max Weinreich City College of New York History of the Yiddish language Also won in 1956 Medieval History University of Wisconsin Also won in 1939 Brian Tierney Catholic University of America Ecclesiastical law in relation to the relief of poverty in the Middle Ages Also won in 1956 Medieval Literature Kemp Malone Rossell Hope Robbins Development of lyric poetry in England, 1200-1500 Music Research Newberry Library Historical studies of music and musical instruments, from pre-Hellenic times to the fall of Constantinople Also won in 1956 Noah Greenberg Medieval and Renaissance music and the traditions of its performance Eta Harich-Schneider Also won in 1953 and 1954 Bernard Stambler Oliver Strunk Princeton University Music of the Byzantine liturgy in its medieval form Also won in 1951 Walter Lincoln Woodfill University of Delaware English music and musicians in the 17th century Near Eastern Studies Ernest Bender University of Pennsylvania Old Gujarati language of India and its literature Jacob Joel Finkelstein Yale University Political and socio-economic conditions in the period preceding the fall of the first Babylonian Empire Philosophy Irving Marmer Copi University of Michigan Recent developments in symbolic logic and theory of language Philip Merlan Scripps College Influence of Aristotle on subsequent thought Charles Egerton Osgood University of Illinois Psychology of the communication process Also won in 1972 Renaissance History Josephine Waters Bennett Hunter College History of the Renaissance in England Also won in 1944 William Nelson Columbia University The prince in the literature of the Renaissance Craig R. Thompson Lawrence College Commentaries on the works of Erasmus Also won in 1942, 1954, and 1968 Franklin B. Williams Jr. Georgetown University Literary patronage and conditions of publication in Renaissance England Russian Studies University of California, Berkeley Cultural and political trends in Russia and Poland prior to Polish independence Also won in 1956 Science Writing Gobind Behari Lal Slavic Literature Dmitry Cizevsky Harvard University Slavic literature of the baroque period Spanish and Portuguese Literature José de Onís University of Colorado Attitudes of Spanish-American writers towards the US since 1900 Oliver Howard Hauptmann Grinnell College Certain medieval Judaeo-Spanish Biblical manuscripts Theatre Arts Monroe Lippman Tulane University Charles Ensign Rogers Amherst College United States History John Richard Alden University of Nebraska History of the South during the American Revolution Thomas B. Alexander Georgia State Teachers College Persistence of the principles of the American Whigs, 1860-1900 Shelby Foote Civil War as seen from the point of view of the participants Also won in 1956 and 1959 Norman Francis Furniss Colorado A&M University History of the Mormon War Eric Frederick Goldman Princeton University History of modern American isolationism Edward Chase Kirkland Bowdoin College Attitudes and policies of the business community in the US, 1860-1900 Bessie Louise Pierce Also won in 1957 George Wilson Pierson Yale University Effects of the American character on the migration of men and of culture Frank Everson Vandiver Washington University in St. Louis Stonewall Jackson Natural Science Applied Math Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay Johns Hopkins University Turbulence in compressible flow Wulf Bernard Kunkel University of California, Berkeley Gaseous electronics Also won in 1972 James Edward Storer Harvard University Astronomy and Astrophysics Louis Craig Green Haverford College Procedures for finding atomic wave functions of high accuracy Martin Schwarzschild Princeton University Stellar evolution John Hughes Tinlot University of Rochester Research at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris Chemistry Isadore Amdur Massachusetts Institute of Technology Paul Doughty Bartlett Also won in 1971 Milton Burton University of Notre Dame Radiation chemistry and the chemistry of electrical discharges Robert Hugh Cole Brown University Also won in 1961 University of California, Berkeley Thermodynamic and magnetic properties of the actinide and lanthanide elements John Courtney Decius Oregon State College Molecular force constants and dipoles Paul Delahay Louisiana State University Also won in 1971 Stanley Jerome Cristol University of Colorado Certain bridged polycyclic compounds Also won in 1980 George Dawson Halsey, Jr. University of Washington Absorption and solution of the noble gases George Simms Hammond Iowa State College Organic mechanisms Harold Hart Michigan State College Role of the cyclopropane ring in organic reaction mechanisms Ralph A. James University of California, Los Angeles David Lipkin Washington University in St. Louis Chemistry of nucleic acids and organic phosphorus compounds generally Lynne L. Merritt, Jr. Indiana University Crystal structure for chelate complexes Richard M. Noyes Isadore Perlman University of California, Berkeley Theory of nuclear spectroscopic states Also won in 1962 Henry Rapoport Heterocyclic nitrogen compounds of natural origin Calvin Lee Stevens Wayne State University Synthetic organic chemistry and reaction mechanisms Julian M. Sturtevant Yale University Kinetics and the heats of very rapid enzymatic reactions Henry Taube University of Chicago Also won in 1949 Alfred Lawrence Wilds University of Wisconsin John Warren Williams Earth Science Isaac Barshad University of California, Berkeley Oil mineralogy and the formation of soils Kenneth E. Caster University of Cincinnati Rocks and fossils in Tasmania Also won in 1943 and 1954 Ernst Cloos Maurice Ewing Columbia University Also won in 1938, 1939, and 1953 Richard Holmes Merriam University of Southern California Strength of the concretes used in ancient Roman buildings Mathematics Philip J. Davis National Bureau of Standards Marshall Hall, Jr. Ohio State University Also won in 1970 Edwin Hewitt Also won in 1945 Gerhard Paul Hochschild University of Illinois Algebraic cosmology theory Arthur J. Lohwater University of Michigan Behavior of meromorphic functions at the boundary of the region of definition Edward James McShane University of Virginia Theory of partially ordered spaces Alfred Tarski University of California, Berkeley Mathematics and abstract algebra Also won in 1941 and 1942 Alexander Weinstein University of Maryland Elliptic and hyperbolic equations of higher order Also won in 1954 George W. Whitehead Massachusetts Institute of Technology Daniel Zelinsky Northwestern University Linear compactness Medicine and Health Dav