List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1958

Three hundred and twenty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1958. $1,412,000 in funds was disbursed.

1958 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Drama and Performance Art Lionel Abel State University of New York Loften Mitchell State University of New York at Binghamton Fiction Doris Betts Novel writing Margaret Currier Boylen Josephine Carson Rider Daniel Curley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign James Purdy Also won in 1963 Fine Arts Emil John Antonucci Graphic design Al Blaustein The Art Center of Northern New Jersey Painting Also won in 1961 Dennis Byng Purdue University Also won in 1959 Richard Charles Gilkey Paul Theodore Granlund Minneapolis School of Art Sculpture Also won in 1957 William A. Kienbusch Painting James Chan Leong Ezio Martinelli Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons School of Design Graphic arts Also won in 1962 Dean Jackson Meeker University of Wisconsin Creative printmaking Tetsuo Ochikubo Lithography Nathan Oliveira Graphic arts Charles Robert Oscar Museum of Modern Arts Painting Norman Rubington Aubrey E. Schwartz Harpur College, State University of New York Graphic art Also won in 1959 Sahl Swarz Sculpture Also won in 1955 Lithography Also won in 1964, 1969 Frans Wildenhain Rochester Institute of Technology Ceramic sculpture in relation to architecture Music Composition James MacArthur Beale University of Washington Composing Jack Hamilton Beeson Columbia University Irving Gifford Fine Brandeis University Also won in 1950 Lee Henry Hoiby Stanley Hollingsworth Oakland University Teo Macero TEO Productions Also won in 1957 Vincent Persichetti Juilliard School Also won in 1968, 1973 University of California, Davis Photography W. Eugene Smith Magnum Photos Pittsburgh Also won in 1956, 1968 Poetry Philip Booth Syracuse University Writing Also won in 1964 Edgar Bowers Harpur College Also won in 1969 Katherine de Montalant Hoskins Alastair Reid Also won in 1958 Humanities American Literature James Franklin Beard, Jr. Clark University James Fenimore Cooper Also won in 1952 Travis Miller Bogard University of California, Berkeley Plays of Eugene O'Neill John Espey University of California, Los Angeles Critical study of the poetry of Ezra Pound Ihab Habib Hassan Wesleyan University American novel since World War II Also won in 1962 Alfred Kazin Amherst College Historical and literary studies of 20th century American writing Also won in 1940, 1947, 1969 Jacob Clavner Levenson University of Minnesota Gardner Blake Taplin Longwood College Influence of Italian life and culture upon American literature in the 19th century Architecture, Planning and Design Ada Louise Huxtable Art in America, Progressive Architecture John William Reps Cornell University City planning prior to the Chicago World's Fair Columbian Exposition of 1893 Thomas D. Schocken St. Louis City Plan Commission Relationship between city planning controls and design in European countries Bibliography William Richard Matthews University of California, Los Angeles Works of Sir Thomas Malory as printed by William Caxton Also won in 1946 Biography William Johnson Time Life Harold Osman Kelly, 1884-1955 Elizabeth Stevenson Lafcadio Hearn Also won in 1951 British History Richard Wall Lyman Washington University in St. Louis James Ramsay MacDonald Classics Thomas R. S. Broughton Bryn Mawr College Also won in 1945 Norman O. Brown University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan University Irrational factor in ancient Greek politics John Francis Callahan Georgetown University Joseph Fontenrose University of California, Berkeley Cults of Delphi in ancient Greece Fred Walter Householder, Jr. Indiana University Early history of Greek language Georg Hans Bhavani Luck Harvard University Ovid's language, style and literary technique William Andrew McDonald University of Minnesota Also won in 1967 Helen F. North Cornell University Also won in 1975 Roger A. Pack University of Michigan Artemidorus Daldianus' Oneirocritica Lawrence Richardson, Jr. Yale University Painters of ancient Pompeii Chester G. Starr University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early Greek civilization Also won in 1950 Myra L. Uhlfelder University of Iowa History of ancient Roman religion John Howard Young Johns Hopkins University Sounion in the Athenian state period East Asian Studies John Whitney Hall University of Michigan Okayama Domain Also won in 1976 Economic History Wytze Gorter University of California, Los Angeles Economic study of the dissolution of the Dutch Empire in the Far East Louis Morton Hacker Columbia University Early history of the United States Steel Corporation Also won in 1948 Jacob Myron Price University of Michigan Anglo-American tobacco trade, 1660-1775 Also won in 1965 English Literature Roy Wesley Battenhouse Indiana University Elizabethan poetic and moral theory Gerald Eades Bentley, Jr. University of Chicago Donald F. Bond University of Chicago Also won in 1966 Fredson Thayer Bowers University of Virginia Bibliographical study of all English plays published between 1660 and 1700 Also won in 1970 Jackson Irving Cope Washington University in St. Louis Renaissance Italian critics' influence upon Elizabethan playwrights Also won in 1984 Joseph Frank University of Rochester History of English newspapers Also won in 1961 William Frost University of California, Santa Barbara Also won in 1979 David Hayman University of Texas Finnegans Wake John Emory Jordan University of California, Berkeley William Wordsworth William Rea Keast Cornell University Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson Harry Thornton Moore Southern Illinois University Collected volume of D. H. Lawrence's works Also won in 1960 William R. Mueller University of North Carolina Literary and theological study of John Donne's sermons Stephen Maxfield Parrish Cornell University Poetic theory and technique of William Wordsworth Also won in 1985 Robert Torsten Petersson Smith College Comparative study of certain literary works and paintings of the 17th century Stanford University Works of Roger Ascham, 1515-1568 Grover C. Smith, Jr. Duke University History of contemporary English poetic drama Robert Donald Thornton University of South Carolina Ian Pierre Watt University of California, Berkeley Joseph Conrad's development as a novelist Also won in 1972 Fine Arts Research François Bucher Yale University Antique sources of medieval art Also won in 1966 George Heard Hamilton Yale University History of modern painting and sculpture John Franklin Haskins University of Pennsylvania Thomas Jefferson Also won in 1963 Hylton Armond Thomas University of Minnesota New York University Nicola Pisano and Giovanni Pisano and their relation to sculpture in the 13th and 14th centuries Folklore and Popular Culture Austin Edwin Fife Occidental College Cowboy songs and ballads French Literature Washington University in St. Louis Alain Robbe-Grillet Marvin Mudrick University of California, Santa Barbara Warren Ramsey University of California, Berkeley Symbolism in European literature Roger W. Shattuck University of Texas Literary works of Remy de Gourmont General Nonfiction Edwin Emery University of Minnesota History and development of American press associations Paul G. Horgan Santa Fe Opera Jean-Baptiste Lamy Also won in 1945 John Frederick Muehl University of Michigan East India Company Marion Lena Starkey University of Connecticut History of the African Negro in the United States Also won in 1953 German and East European History Sten Gunnar Flygt Vanderbilt University Karl Friedrich Bahrdt Reginald H. Phelps Harvard University Early evolution of the National Socialist movement in Bavaria, 1919 to 1924 German and Scandinavian Literature Heinz Politzer Oberlin College Also won in 1966, 1974 Herbert William Reichert University of North Carolina Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Auraldo Riley Bowdoin College Writings of the Viennese romantics, 1808-1813 H. Stefan Schultz University of Chicago History of Science and Technology Alex Berman University of Michigan Comparative study of hospital pharmacy in France and the United States Thomas Neville Bonner University of Omaha Completion of his book The Influence of German Universities on American Medicine, 1870-1914 Also won in 1964 Iberian and Latin American History Woodrow Borah University of California, Berkeley Mexican colonial history Also won in 1951 Stanley J. Stein Princeton University The role of merchants in the Mexican independence movement, 1778-1827 Also won in 1972 Italian Literature Aldo D. Scaglione University of California, Berkeley Italian literary history since the Renaissance Linguistics Stanley Martin Sapon Ohio State University Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University Poetic language in folksongs Also won in 1980 Ralph Charles Wood Literary Criticism Wylie Sypher Simmons College Structure in painting, architecture and sculpture to interpret forms of literature Also won in 1949 Medieval Literature Joseph Anthony Mazzeo Cornell University Dante and medieval culture Nicholas M. Haring Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Also won in 1962 Henry David Hurst Portsmouth Priory School Commentaries of the Venerable Bede on the Gospels of Mark and Luke William Thomas Hobdell Jackson Columbia University Also won in 1967 Medieval History Charles Till Davis Tulane University Katherine Fischer Drew Rice University Fusion of Lombrd and Frankish institutions in Italy between the 8th and 10th centuries Lynn Townsend White, Jr. Mills College Technology and social change during the European Middle Ages Music Research Putnam C. Aldrich Stanford University Dance rhythms of the Baroque period Joseph Wilfred Kerman University of California, Berkeley Italian madrigals Carl George Parrish Vassar College Notations employed in vocal music and instrumental tablatures of the Renaissance Milton Steinhardt University of Kansas Music of Jacobus Vaet Also won in 1965 Edward Arthur Lippman Columbia University Musical philosophy and esthetics Alfred Mann Rutgers University Baroque music in England and Italy Near Eastern Studies Ricardo Augusto Caminos Brown University History of the XXII Egyptian Dynasty Florence Ely Day Early Islamic art David Noel Freedman Western Theological Seminary History and culture of Biblical Palestine Judah Goldin Jewish Theological Seminary Jacob C. Hurewitz Columbia University Arthur Võõbus Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary Syrian monasticism from the 2nd to the 5th century, A.D. Also won in 1957, 1968 Philosophy Rudolf Allers Georgetown University Political conduct Charles Augustus Baylis Duke University Ethics Arthur Child University of California, Davis General theory of interpretation Philip P. Hallie Vanderbilt University Maine de Biran William Thomas Jones Pomona College Conflict between the scientific and normative conceptions of human life John Ladd Brown University Nature of reasoning in ethics Leroy Earl Loemker Emory University Intellectual history of the 17th century Israel Scheffler Harvard University Philosophy of language Also won in 1972 Gregory Vlastos Princeton University Also won in 1950 Religion Frederick A. Norwood Garrett Biblical Institute History of Christian religious refugees since 1500 Arthur Carl Piepkorn Concordia Seminary Bibliography of Lutheran theologians of the period 1580-1713 Amos Niven Wilder Harvard University Interpretation of early Christian imagery and myth Renaissance History Rosalie Littell Colie Barnard College John Locke's work and development during his Dutch sojourn Also won in 1966 James Hutton Cornell University Concept of peace in Renaissance literature Frederic Chapin Lane Johns Hopkins University Economic history of Venice Slavic Literature William Edward Harkins Columbia University Karel Čapek George Yury Shevelov Columbia University Spanish and Portuguese Literature Ernesto Guerra Da Cal New York University Eça de Queiroz Terrence Leslie Hansen University of California, Riverside Span