List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1942

Eighty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1942.^[1][2]

1942 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Drama and Performance Art	Alexander Greendale		Playwriting		[3][4]
	Fiction	Dorothy Baker		Novel about university life (Trio, published 1943)		[5]
		Carson McCullers		Writing	Also won in 1946	[6]
		Eudora Alice Welty			Also won in 1949	[7]
	Fine Arts	Cameron Booth	St. Paul Gallery and School of Art	Painting		[8]
		Dean Fausett		Painting: Murals for the United States Air Force	Also won in 1943	[9]
		Joseph Hirsch		Painting	Also won in 1943	[10][11]
		Dong Kingman		Painting: Watercolors of American scene subjects	Also won in 1943	[12]
		Charles Rudy		Sculpture: Stone and bronze, and experimental work in terra cotta and other media		[13][11]
		Marion Sanford		Sculpture	Also won in 1941	[14]
	Music Composition	Ernst Bacon	Converse College	Composing	Also won in 1939, 1964	[15]
		Stanley Bate				[16]
		Burrill Phillips	Eastman School of Music		Also won in 1961	[17][16]
	Photography	Wright Morris		Domestic scenes in the South, Midwest, and Southwest (The Inhabitants, published 1946)	Also won in 1946, 1954	[18]
	Poetry	W. H. Auden		Writing		[19][3][20][4]
		George Zabriskie		Long poem "involving the dualistic aspect of the private and social man"	Also won in 1946	[21][19][22][3][20][4]
Humanities	British History	Lewis Perry Curtis				[20]
		Jack H. Hexter	Queens College, CUNY	History of the interregnum in England	Also won in 1947, 1979	[23]
	Classics	Harold Fredrik Cherniss	Johns Hopkins University	Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy, Vol. II		[3][4]
		Frederick Malcolm Combellack	University of Oregon			[2]
		Michael Ginsburg	University of Nebraska	Social policy of the Roman emperors	Also won in 1939	[24]
		Doro Levi	Princeton University	Mosaics of Antioch-on-the-Orontes	Also won in 1941	[22][25]
	East Asian Studies	George Norbert Kates		Court life of Old China through eight centuries		[4]
	English Literature	Franklin Gary	Princeton University			[22]
		Edward Niles Hooker	University of California, Los Angeles	History of English literary theory and criticism in the neoclassical period	Also won in 1950	[26][2]
		Maynard Mack	Yale University	Critical essay of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man	Also won in 1964, 1982	[19][20]
		Gordon Norton Ray	Harvard University	Definitive edition of the letters and private papers of William Makepeace Thackeray	Also won in 1941, 1945, 1956	[19]
		Mark Schorer	Harvard University	Relationship betwene ideas and forms in the poetry of William Blake	Also won in 1941, 1948, 1973	[19][27]
		A.S.P. Woodhouse	University of Toronto	John Milton		[28]
	Fine Arts Research	Otto Benesch			Also won in 1945	[25]
		Meyer Schapiro	Columbia University	Preparation of a corpus of paintings, drawings, and ornament in manuscripts of southern France from the 10th to the end of the 12th century, with an analysis and interpretation of these works	Also won in 1939	[29]
		Saul S. Weinberg	Institute for Advanced Study		Also won in 1941	[22]
	French Literature	Justin O'Brien	Columbia University	Biographical and critical study of André Gide		[30]
	General Nonfiction	John Dos Passos		Life of Thomas Jefferson	Also won in 1939, 1940	[31][19][3][20][4]
		Gustavus Myers		History of bigotry in the United States	Also won in 1941	[32]
	German and Scandinavian Literature	Harold Stein Jantz	Clark University	New England acquaintance with German thought and literature during the 17th and 18th centuries		[19]
	History of Science and Technology	Francis Rarick Johnson	Stanford University		Also won in 1949	[2]
	Iberian & Latin American History	Helen Sullivan Mims		History of the democratic tradition of Spain	Also won in 1941	[17]
	Linguistics	Einar Ingvald Haugen	University of Wisconsin	Linguistic experiences and behavior of Norwegian immigrants in the United States, with special reference to the historical, social, and cultural processes of immigrant life		[27][8]
	Literary Criticism	Maxwell David Geismar	Sarah Lawrence College	Evaluation of the 1920s in America through certain key writers of the period		[17]
		Louise Michelle Rosenblatt				[33]
	Medieval Literature	Edmund Taite Silk	Yale University	Edits of commentary by Nicholas Trivet on Boethius		[19][20]
	Music Research	Colin McPhee		Balinese music	Also won in 1943	[17][16]
	Renaissance History	Hans Baron			Also won in 1973	[25]
		Vincent Joseph Flynn	University of St. Thomas	History of the English Renaissance and Anglo-Italian relations in the last half of the 15th century		[8]
		Craig R. Thompson	Cornell University	Edition of Erasmus' Colloquia famiiliaria	Also won in 1954, 1955, 1968	[34]
	Philosophy	Horace Leland Friess	Columbia Univeristy	Study of the posthumous manuscripts of Felix Adler		[35]
		Charles William Morris	University of Chicago	General theory of signs		[36]
	United States History	Alfred Whitney Griswold	Yale University	Political significance of American agriculture		[19][20]
		Frank Hawkins Underhill	University of Toronto	Career of Edward Blake		[28]
		Dixon Wecter	University of California, Los Angeles	History of the Roosevelt family in America	Also won in 1943	[19][3][20][4][2]
Natural Science	Earth Science	Max Harrison Demorest	Wesleyan University	Physics of ice, particularly glacial ice		[19][20]
		Hans Jenny	University of California, Los Angeles	Biology	Also won in 1954	[2]
		George Prior Woollard		Seismic, gravitational, and magnetic investigations of the geological structure underlying the North American Atlantic coastal plain	Also won in 1941	[37][22]
	Mathematics	John Charles McKinsey	New York University	Mathematical logic		[38]
		Alfred Tarski	Institute for Advanced Study		Also won in 1941, 1955	[22][25]
	Medicine and Health	Simon Dworkin	McGill University	Comparision of the higher nervous activity of dogs, cats, and rats, as revealed by the experimental method of conditioned reflexes		[28]
		Thomas Rogers Forbes	Johns Hopkins University	Physiology of reproduction		[3][4]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Robert Gaunt	New York University	Physiology of the adrenal gland		[39]
		Charles Leonard Huskins	McGill University	Synthesis of cytology and the genetics of plants, animals, and man		[28]
		Salvador E. Luria			Also won in 1963	[25]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Dietrich H. Bodenstein [de]	Stanford University		Also won in 1941	[2]
		E. Raymond Hall	University of California, Los Angeles	American weasel		[2]
		Jane M. Oppenheimer	Bryn Mawr College	Development of structure and function in the central nervous system of fish	Also won in 1952	[11]
	Physics	Wilson M. Powell	University of California, Berkeley	Cosmic rays	Also won in 1941	[40]
	Plant Science	John Thomas Curtis	University of Wisconsin	Octological status of the lake forests of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ontario	Also won in 1956	[27][8]
		Hugh Carson Cutler	Harvard University	Determination of the area in which corn originated	Also won in 1946	[19]
		David R. Goddard	University of Rochester	Respiratory enzymes of higher plants		[17]
		Floyd Alonzo McClure	Lingnan University	Chinese bamboos	Also won in 1943	[3][4]
		Richard E. Schultes	Harvard University	Economic aspects of the flors of southern Colombia and adjacent Ecuador, and an ethnobotanical study of the useful plants among the Indigenous tribes of the area		[19]
		Rolf Singer	Harvard University	Mycological flora of sub-tropical America	Also won in 1952	[19][25]
Social Science	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Gordon Townsend Bowles	University of Hawaii	Functional adaptations in the human skeleton based on Hawaiian skeletal materials		[41][42]
		Morris Edward Opler	Claremont Colleges	Cultures of four related Apache tribes		[2][42]
	Economics	Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr.	Wesleyan University	History of unemployment in the United States	Also won in 1941	[19][22][20]
		Lloyd Appleton Metzler	Harvard University	Cyclical fluctuations in income and investment		[19]
		Robert Sidney Smith	Duke University	Guild merchants in colonial Mexico		[21]
	Political Science	R. Taylor Cole [de]	Duke University	Effects of wartime social, economic, and political changes on the public personnel of Canada	Also won in 1947	[21]
		James A. C. Grant	University of California, Los Angeles	Comparative study of procedure to enforce constitutional guarantees		[2]
	Psychology	Rudolf Arnheim		Applications of principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysis	Also won in 1941	[43][25]
		Robert Brodie MacLeod [de]	Swarthmore College	Psychology of color vision		[11]
		Burrhus Frederic Skinner	University of Minnesota	Psychology of language		[8]

1942 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fine Arts	Antonio Rodríguez Luna			Also won in 1941	[44]
	Music Composition	Alberto Evaristo Ginastera		Composition	Also won in 1946, 1969	[45]
Humanities	Biography	Antonio Hernández Travieso	Sepúlveda College; Institute of Secondary Education (Havana)	Life of Félix Varela	Also won in 1943	[46]
	General Nonfiction	Gabriel Fernández Ledesma		Theme of death as depicted in the folk arts of Mexico and the Southwest United States		[47][48]
	Iberian and Latin American History	Arturo Arnáiz y Freg	National Autonomous University of Mexico	History of Mexican thought		[49]
	Philosophy	Raúl Alberto Piérola	National Institute of Secondary Education; Popular Library of Paraná	Influence of phenomenology on contemporary North American philosophy		[50]
Natural Science	Applied Mathematics	Jaime Lifshitz Gaj	National Autonomous University of Mexico	General theory of orbits	Also won in 1943	[51]
	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Félix Cernuschi	National University of Tucumán	Statistical mechanics, with special reference to its application to astrophysics	Also won in 1945	[52]
	Medicine and Health	Luis Vargas Fernández		Studies at the University of Washington	Also won in 1941	[53]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Efrén Carlos del Pozo	National School of Biological Sciences	Studies in Boston	Also won in 1941	[54]
		Juan José Lussich Siri	Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo)	Vitamin chemistry		[55]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Raúl Cortés Peña	University of Chile	Biological control of insect pests	Also won in 1943	[56]
		Isabel Pérez Farfante			Also won in 1943	[57]
		Fabio Leoni Werneck	Oswaldo Cruz Institute	Taxonomic studies of the Mallophaga of mammals	Also won in 1943	[58]
	Physics	Amador Cobas	University of Puerto Rico	Correlation of high energy cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrons		[59]
	Plant Science	Rafael Edmundo Pontis Videla	Ministry of Agriculture (Argentina)	Cytological and microchemical studies of host plants infected with spotted wilt		[60]
Social Science	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Wigberto Jiménez Moreno [es]	National Museum (Mexico)	Pre-Hispanic connections between the Indigenous cultures of Mexico and the Southeast and Southwest United States		[42]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1941
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1943

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