List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954

Two hundred and forty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1954.^[1][2]

1954 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Choreography	Merce Cunningham	Also won in 1959	[3]
	Drama and Performing Arts	W. Denis Johnston		[4]
	Fiction	Stephen Becker		[5]
		Julius Horwitz	Also won in 1965	[5]
		Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh	Also won in 1946	[6][7][5]
	Fine Arts	Kenneth Callahan		[8]
		Naum Gabo		[9]
		Edward L. Haber		[10]
		Joseph Lasker		[11]
		Harold Paris	Also won in 1953	[12]
		Bernard Perlin	Also won in 1959	[13]
		Henry Rox [de]		[14]
		John Williams Taylor		[15][10]
	Music Composition	Louis Calabro	Also won in 1959	[16]
		Lou Silver Harrison	Also won in 1952	[17][18]
		Alan Hovhaness	Also won in 1953	[19]
		Hunter Johnson	Also won in 1941	[20]
		Benjamin George Lees	Also won in 1966	[21]
		Julia Amanda Perry	Also won in 1956	[22]
		Robert L. Sanders		[23]
		Eugene Herbert Weigel		[11]
	Photography	Wright Morris	Also won in 1942, 1946	[24][7][5]
		John Szarkowski	Also won in 1961	[25]
	Poetry	Jorge Guillén	Also won in 1959	[26]
		Anthony Evan Hecht	Also won in 1959	[27][10]
		May Sarton		[28]
		Peter R. Viereck	Also won in 1948	[29]
Humanities	American History	Carl Julius Bode		[30][31]
	American Literature	Edwin H. Cady	Also won in 1975	[32][10]
		David Howard Dickason		[33][34][11]
		Andrew Reuben Hilen, Jr.		[35]
	Architecture, Planning and Design	Kenneth John Conant	Also won in 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930	[36][37]
	Biography	Mary Wells Knight Ashworth		[38]
		Samuel Flagg Bemis	Also won in 1960	[5][9]
	British History	Margaret Atwood Judson		[39]
		Russell Amos Kirk		[40]
		Arthur Maheux		[41]
		Conyers Read	Also won in 1951	[42]
	Classics	Milton V. Anastos [el]	Also won in 1966	[28][30]
		Truesdell Sparhawk Brown		[21]
		Evelyn Byrd Harrison		[43]
		Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen		[44][11][18]
		Berthe Marie Marti		[7]
		Ben Edwin Perry	Also won in 1930	[45][11]
	East Asian Studies	James Irving Crump		[40]
		Stanley K. Hornbeck		[46]
	Economic History	Rondo Emmett Cameron	Also won in 1969	[2]
	English Literature	Ralph Cohen		[21]
		Charlton Hinman	Also won in 1953	[47][31]
		Samuel Frederick Johnson		[48]
		Ada Nisbet	Also won in 1948	[21]
		Arthur H. Scouten [de]		[49][7]
		Ernest Albert Strathmann	Also won in 1946	[21][48]
		Edward Surtz		[48][11]
	Fine Arts Research	Richard Bernheimer [de]		[7]
		Jane Costello Goldberg		[50]
		Sydney Joseph Freedberg	Also won in 1949	[48]
		Frederick Hartt	Also won in 1946	[51][48]
		Charles Seymour, Jr.		[9][48]
		Paul Stover Wingert		[52]
		Adja Yunkers	Also won in 1949	[53]
	Folklore and Popular Culture	Marius Barbeau	Also won in 1956	[54]
	French History	Arthur Layton Funk		[55]
		Louis R. Gottschalk	Also won in 1928	[56]
	French Literature	Victor H. Brombert	Also won in 1969	[9]
		Lester G. Crocker		[57][31]
		Nathan Edelman		[58]
		Norman Lewis Torrey	Also won in 1932	[59]
	General Nonfiction	James Baldwin		[5]
		Marguerite Higgins		[5]
		Oscar W. Koch		[60]
		David T. W. McCord		[61]
		John Edward Pfeiffer	Also won in 1952	[62]
	German and East European History	Hajo Holborn	Also won in 1961	[9]
		Arthur May		[63][10]
	German and Scandinavian Literature	Stuart P. Atkins	Also won in 1968	[28][48]
		Bernhard Blume	Also won in 1963	[64]
		Heinrich Edmund Karl Henel	Also won in 1951	[2]
		Jack Madison Stein	Also won in 1962	[65]
		Hermann J. Weigand [de]		[66]
	History of Science and Technology	Carl Benjamin Boyer		[67]
		Charles Coulston Gillispie	Also won in 1970	[68]
		Thomas S. Kuhn		[69]
	Intellectual and Cultural History	Carl Emil Schorske		[9]
	Italian Literature	Ernst Pulgram	Also won in 1962	[40]
		Charles S. Singleton	Also won in 1950, 1962	[28]
	Linguistics	Yuen Ren Chao	Also won in 1968	[44][18]
		Mark J. Dresden	Also won in 1956	[49][7]
		Joseph Harold Greenberg	Also won in 1982	[70]
	Literary Criticism	Mary Ethel Dichmann		[71]
		Samuel Holt Monk		[72][73]
Lewis Pearson Simpson			[74][71]
Medieval History	Bryce Lyon	Also won in 1972	[28]
Medieval Literature	Cora Elizabeth Lutz	Also won in 1949	[7]
	Robert Armstrong Pratt	Also won in 1946	[20]
Music Research	David Dodge Boyden	Also won in 1966, 1970	[44]
	William Loran Crosten		[17][44][18]
	Eta Harich-Schneider	Also won in 1953, 1955	[75]
	Paul Henry Lang		[76]
	Kenneth Levy		[48]
	Frederick William Sternfeld		[28]
Near Eastern Studies	Theodor Herzl Gaster	Also won in 1959	[7]
	Ann Perkins		[9]
Philosophy	Vianney Décarie		[41]
	Mortimer R. Kadish		[64]
	Armand Augustine Maurer, Jr.		[41]
	Reidar Thomte		[77][73]
Religion	Robert Friedmann		[40]
	Abraham Joshua Heschel		[78]
Renaissance History	Sears Reynolds Jayne	Also won in 1969	[44][48][18]
	Craig R. Thompson	Also won in 1942, 1955, 1968	[49][48]
Russian Studies	John Shelton Curtiss		[20][18]
Slavic Literature	Elias Denissoff		[34][11]
Spanish and Portuguese Literature	Enrique Anderson Imbert		[40]
	Joaquín Casalduero	Also won in 1944	[79]
	Juan Roura-Parella [ca]		[9]
United States History	Oscar Handlin		[28]
	Henry Lumpkin		[30][31]
	John Francis McDermott		[51]
	Walter Prescott Webb	Also won in 1938	[80]
	Rubin Richard Wohl		[11]
Natural Sciences	Applied Mathematics	Henry George Booker		[32][10]
		Harold Levine		[81]
		Chia-Chiao Lin	Also won in 1960	[82]
		Milton Denman Van Dyke		[17][44][18]
	Astronomy and Astrophysics	John Barrows Irwin		[33][34][11]
	Chemistry	Berni Julian Alder		[44][18]
		Fred Basolo		[11]
		Donald James Cram		[21]
		Paul J. Flory		[32][10]
		Herbert Sander Gutowsky		[83][11]
		Lester Guttman		[56][11]
		Donald Frederick Hornig		[84]
		David Newton Hume		[85]
		Walter McClellan Lauer		[73]
		Chester Thomas O'Konski		[44][18]
		George Claude Pimentel		[44][18]
		John D. Roberts	Also won in 1952	[86]
		Max Tofield Rogers		[40]
		William Frederick Sager		[30]
		Robert Lane Scott		[21]
		Harrison Shull		[33]
		Walter H. Stockmayer		[87]
		Charles Gardner Swain		[88]
		Stanley Gerald Thompson	Also won in 1965	[44][18]
		Geoffrey Wilkinson		[28]
		Mathew K. Wilson		[28]
	Earth Science	Lloyd Arnold Brown		[31]
		Kenneth Edward Caster	Also won in 1943, 1955	[89][64]
		John Wyatt Durham	Also won in 1965	[44]
		Albert E. J. Engel		[21]
		Fritiof Melvin Fryxell		[90][11]
		Edward H. Graham		[30]
		Cornelius Searle Hurlbut, Jr.		[28]
		Hans Jenny	Also won in 1942	[91]
		Peter H. Misch		[92]
		Bryan Patterson	Also won in 1951	[11]
		Joanne Malkus Simpson	Appointed as Joanne Starr Malkus	[93]
		Herbert Edgar Wright, Jr.		[72][73]
	Engineering	Neal Russell Amundson	Also won in 1975	[72][73]
		Joseph William Johnson		[94]
		Osman Kamel Mawardi		[95]
		Dennis Granville Shepherd		[32][10]
		Nelson Wax		[11]
		Arthur Henry Waynick		[7]
	Mathematics	Douglas George Chapman		[96]
		Shiing-Shen Chern	Also won in 1966	[11]
		Magnus Rudolph Hestenes		[21]
		Ellis Robert Kolchin	Also won in 1961	[97]
		Friederich Ignaz Mautner		[31]
		Hans Rademacher		[49][7]
		Maxwell A. Rosenlicht		[11]
		Alexander Weinstein	Also won in 1955	[30][31]
	Medicine and Health	Arpad Istvan Csapo		[31]
		Ladislas J. Meduna		[11]
		Robert Oliver Scow		[98]
		Julian Tobias		[11]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Werner Bergmann		[9]
		Robert Harza Burris		[2]
		Louis-Paul Dugal		[41]
		Hans Gaffron		[11]
		Frank R. N. Gurd		[33][28]
		Donald James Hanahan		[99]
		Teru Hayashi		[100]
		Norman H. Horowitz		[21]
Bruce Connor Johnson			[101]
Hardin Blair Jones			[18]
Max Kleiber			[18]
William N. Lipscomb		Also won in 1972	[102][73]
Arthur Hamilton Livermore			[103]
Peter Reed Morrison			[2]
Arthur Leslie Neal			[32][10]
Hans Neurath			[104]
Man Chiang Niu		Also won in 1955	[17][44][18]
Esmond Emerson Snell		Also won in 1962, 1970	[105]
Cornelis Bernardus van Niel		Also won in 1944	[106][17][44][18]
John Lewis Wood			[107]
Gerard R. Wyatt			[41]
Organismic Biology and Ecology	William J. Baerg [fr]		[108]
	Arthur Grover Humes		[109]
	Yoshio Kondo	Also won in 1953	[110]
	Eugene Rabinowitch		[111]
	Edward Shearman Ross		[17]
	Arthur Henry Whiteley		[112]
Physics	Herman Feshbach		[113]
	Henry M. Foley		[114]
	William A. Fowler	Also won in 1961	[21]
	David H. Frisch		[115]
	George Fred Koster		[116]
	John Henry Manley		[117]
	Norman F. Ramsey, Jr.		[28]
	Lewis Judson Stannard, Jr.		[11]
	John C. Wheatley	Also won in 1980	[11]
	William M. Woodward		[118]
Plant Science	Robert Wayne Allard	Also won in 1960	[21]
	Grant Cottam		[2]
	Herbert Bashford Currier	Also won in 1961	[44]
	Ralph O. Erickson		[49][7]
	Roy N. Jervis		[40]
	George Hill Mathewson Lawrence		[32][10]
	Jacob Levitt		[51]
	Harlan Lewis		[21]
	Marion Ownbey		[119]
	Johannes Max Proskauer		[44][18]
	Edward Kemp Vaughan		[103]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Richard Stockton MacNeish		[120]
		Hallam Leonard Movius, Jr.		[28]
	Economics	Eveline Mabel Burns		[121]
		John P. Carter		[18]
		Edgar Owen Edwards		[122]
		Walter Galenson		[44][18]
		Alexander Gerschenkron		[28]
		Leo Grebler		[123]
		Melvin Warren Reed		[56][17][18]
		Lloyd George Reynolds	Also won in 1966	[9]
		George Joseph Stigler		[124]
		Lorie Tarshis		[17][44][18]
		Friedrich August von Hayek		[11]
	Law	Max Rheinstein		[11]
	Political Science	Robert Kenneth Carr		[28]
		Karl Deutsch	Also won in 1971	[125]
		Leslie W. Dunbar		[126]
		Carl J. Friedrich	Also won in 1951	[127]
		Arthur Maass		[28]
		Bertus Harry Wabeke		[30]
	Psychology	Clarence J. Pfaffenberger	Also won in 1953	[17][44][18]
	Sociology	Nathan Glazer	Also won in 1966	[128]
		Malcolm Jarvis Proudfoot		[11]
		George Lee Simpson, Jr.		[129]

1954 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fiction	George Lamming		[130]
		René Marqués		[131]
	Fine Arts	Rafael Tufiño		[132]
	Music Composition	Juan A. Orrego-Salas	Also won in 1945	[33]
Natural Sciences	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Víctor M. Blanco	Also won in 1948	[133]
	Chemistry	Manuel García Morín	Also won in 1955	[133]
	Earth Science	Félix González Bonorino	Also won in 1980	[133]
		Paulo Erichsen de Oliveira		[133]
	Medicine and Health	Silvio Díaz Escobar		[133]
		Lauro Sollero [pt]		[133]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Conrado Federico Asenjo	Also won in 1937, 1938	[134]
		Norberto José Palleroni	Also won in 1953, 1955	[135][133]
		Américo Pomales-Lebrón	Also won in 1963	[133]
	Neuroscience	Carlos Eyzaguirre [es]	Also won in 1953	[136][133]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology	Renato L. Araujo		[133]
		Jorge A. Crespo		[133]
		Teodoro G. Megia		[133]
		William H. Partridge		[133]
		Pedro Wygodzinsky	Also won in 1959	[133]
	Plant Science	Gustavo Huertas González	Also won in 1955	[133]
		Mario Meneghini		[133]
		Gerardo Ocfemia [nl]		[133]
		Raulino Reitz [es]	Also won in 1968	[133]
		Alfonso Trejos Willis [es]	Also won in 1955	[133]
		Jorge Helios Morello Wyler	Also won in 1955, 1958	[133]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Jean Caudmont		[133]
		Alfredo Pacyaya		[133]
		Lauro José Zavala		[133]
	Sociology	Orlando Fals-Borda	Also won in 1953	[137][133]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1953
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1955