# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954

Two hundred and forty-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1954.

## 1954 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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

## 1954 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

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