Sixty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1943. This year, fewer fellowships were awarded so funds could be saved for scholars unable to apply due to the war.
1943 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Martha Graham Choreography to music by Carlos Chavez and Aaron Copland Also won in 1932, 1944 Fiction Hugh MacLennan Lower Canada College Novel about Canadian life during the period 1917 to 1940 Vladimir Nabokov Permanente Yard 2 His experience in France during World War II Also won in 1952 Vladimir Pozner Fine Arts Donald Harcourt De Lue Sculpture Also won in 1944 Dean Fausett Painting: Murals for the United States Air Force Also won in 1942 Joseph Hirsch Posters for the Red Cross, the Office of War Information, the Army Emergency Relief, and the Office of Emergency Management Also won in 1942 Dong Kingman Painting: America at war Also won in 1942 Mauricio Lasansky Work at Atelier 17 in New York Also won in 1944, 1945, 1953, 1964 Sidney Loeb Sculpture Oronzio Maldarelli Also won in 1931 Ira Moskowitz Drawing Music Composition Arthur Kreutz University of Texas Composition Also won in 1945 Normand Lockwood Oberlin Conservatory of Music Also won in 1944 Harry Partch Also won in 1944, 1950 Poetry Jeremy Ingalls Western College for Women Writing Muriel Rukeyser José Garcia Villa Edward Ronald Weismiller Harvard University Also won in 1947 Humanities American Literature William Charvat New York University John T. Flanagan University of Minnesota Literature of the Middle West from 1820 Harry T. Levin Harvard University Symbolism in American fiction Also won in 1944 Madeleine B. Stern Also won in 1944 Randall Stewart Brown University Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne Intellectual awakening of French Canada Also won in 1944 Architecture, Planning, and Design Eric Mendelsohn Biography Signe Kirstine Toksvig Emanuel Swedenborg British History Wilbur Kitchener Jordan University of Chicago History of English thought in the 17th century David Harris Willson University of Minnesota Biography of James I Also won in 1941, 1948, 1963 Classics Esther V. Hansen Elmira College The Attalids of Pergamum (published 1947) Eric Alfred Havelock University of Toronto Also won in 1941 English Literature George W. Meyer Western Reserve University William Wordsworth's artistic and philosophic development George Frank Sensabaugh Stanford University History of ideas of 17th-century England Film, Video and Radio Studies Siegfried Kracauer From Caligari to Hitler (published 1947) Also won in 1944, 1945 Fine Arts Research Walter Friedländer New York University Comprehensive monograph on Caravaggio and his period Elizabeth McCausland American artists, colonial to present George Alexander Kubler Yale University Changing architecture of 16th-century colonial Mexico Also won in 1952, 1956 Folklore and Popular Culture Bertrand Harris Bronson University of California English and Scottish ballads Also won in 1944, 1948 Luc Lacourcière Laval University French Canadian folksongs and folklore Iberian and Latin American History Kathleen Martin Romoli Colonial history of Colombia's Pacific coast Linguistics University of Minnesota (visiting) English Shakespearian speech Also won in 1950 Music Research Colin McPhee Balinese music Also won in 1942 Philosophy David Frederick Bowers Richard Booker Brandt Princeton University Work by Ralph Waldo Emerson Albert Hofstadter New York University History of empiricism John Robert Reid Stanford University Moral philosophy Philip Blair Rice Kenyon College Ethics and humanist theory United States History Ray Allen Billington Smith College History of expansion of American settlements from the Atlantic to Mississippi Lawrence Averell Harper University of California Economic activities and governmental regulations in the English American colonies Fred Harvey Harrington University of Arkansas Diplomatic growth of the United States Townsend Scudder III Swarthmore College Biographical history of Concord, Massachusetts Dixon Wecter University of California, Los Angeles Relationship of soldiers to the civilian population after the United States' three major wars Also won in 1942 Natural Science Earth Science University of Cincinnati Field study of paleozoic strata in northern Andes Mountains Also won in 1954, 1955 Henry Paul Hansen Oregon State College Post-pleistocene forest succession and climate in the northwest Also won in 1947 Geography and Environmental Studies Glenn Thomas Trewartha University of Wisconsin Detailed geographic studies of certain selected type areas of Japan and China, and reconnaissance surveys of a more general nature in a limited number of larger regions Also won in 1926 Organismic Biology and Ecology Tilly Edinger Harvard University Paleontological study of tooth development in reptiles and amphibians Also won in 1944 John Francis Hanson Massachusetts State College Species of stoneflies in the United States William Vogt Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Peru's guano birds Plant Sciences Edgar Anderson Washington University in St. Louis Genetics of Indian corn in Mexico and Southwest United States Also won in 1950, 1956 Emma Lucy Braun University of Cincinnati Ecology of deciduous forests Also won in 1944 Floyd Alonzo McClure Smithsonian Institution Bamboos of the Western Hemisphere Also won in 1942 Social Science Economics Abram Lincoln Harris Howard University Types of economics and their current significance Also won in 1935, 1936, 1953 Donald Chalmers MacGregor University of Toronto Political Science John Donald Lewis Oberlin College American political trends since 1900 Psychology Solomon E. Asch Also won in 1941 Barbara Stoddard Burks Columbia University Identical twins reared apart Sociology Samuel Delbert Clark University of Toronto Development of evangelical religious movements in Canada
1943 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fine Arts Teodoro Núñez Ureta National University of San Agustín Poetry Octavio Paz Writing Humanities Biography Antonio Hernández Travieso Institute of Secondary Education (Havana) Life of Félix Varela Also won in 1942 Iberian and Latin American History College of Mexico Mexican historiography in the 16th century Also won in 1945 Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Jaime Lifshitz Gaj National Autonomous University of Mexico General theory of orbits Also won in 1942 Medicine and Health Mario Autori Fungus-growing ants of Brazil Molecular and Cellular Biology José Antonio Goyco School of Tropical Medicine Production, processing, and preservation of tropical foods Organismic Biology and Ecology Raúl Cortés Peña Ministry of Agriculture (Chile) Methods of controlling insect pests Also won in 1942 Isabel Pérez Farfante University of Havana Increasing the supply of mollusks and crustaceans in Cuban waters Also won in 1942 Fabio Leoni Werneck Taxonomic studies of the Mallophaga of mammals Also won in 1942 Plant Science Juan Ignacio Valencia National University of Cuyo Betterment of South American forage crops Also won in 1941, 1942 Social Science Economics Adolfo Dorfman Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores (Buenos Aires) Methods of classifying and interpreting economic phenomena Also won in 1944 Raúl García National University of Córdoba Agrarian policy in the United States Also won in 1945
See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1942 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1944
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