# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1949

One hundred and forty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1949.

## 1949 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Doris Humphrey | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | John La Touche | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Eleanor Green | Also won in 1950 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jean Paul Malaquais | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Mary McCarthy | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Wallace Stegner | Also won in 1952, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Eudora Alice Welty | Also won in 1942 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jay Williams | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Philip Francisco Stapp | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Hyman Bloom | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eldzier Cortor | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Martin Jackson | Also won in 1950 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Lipman-Wulf (de) | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Arthur Osver | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alexander Peter Russo | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Leonard Louis Schwartz | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Charles Umlauf | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Samuel Barber | Also won in 1945, 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Cage | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Romeo Cascarino | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alexei Haieff | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gerald Raymond Kechley | Also won in 1950 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Leon Kirchner | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Peter Mennin | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Jerome Moross | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert E. Ward | Also won in 1950, 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Homer Gordon Page | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | William Oliver Everson | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kenneth Rexroth | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | John Waldhorn Gassner | |
| Humanities | Biography | Arna Bontemps | |
| Humanities | Biography | Rackham Holt | |
| Humanities | Biography | Jeannette Mirsky | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | Biography | Victor Wolfgang von Hagen | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | British History | Archibald Smith Foord | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | British History | Ruth Allan McIntyre | |
| Humanities | British History | Dora Neill Raymond | |
| Humanities | Classics | Elias Joseph Bickerman | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | Education | Robert King Hall | Also won in 1945, 1952 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Emmett Langdon Avery | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Richard David Ellmann | Also won in 1957, 1970 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Virgil Barney Heltzel | Also won in 1950, 1965 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Malcolm MacKenzie Ross | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Austin Warren | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Charles de Tolnay | Also won in 1948, 1953 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Sydney Joseph Freedberg | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Gordon Bailey Washburn | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Harold Edwin Wethey | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Adja Yunkers | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Richard Mercer Dorson | Also won in 1964, 1971 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Duncan Black Macdonald Emrich | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Albert Bates Lord | |
| Humanities | French History | Paul Harold Beik | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | French History | Carl Vincent Confer | |
| Humanities | French Literature | William Joseph Roach | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Jean Joseph Seznec | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Philip Adrian Wadsworth | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Ronald N. Walpole (de) | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Robert Sharon Allen | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Sally Carrighar | Also won in 1948 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Bernard Mishkin | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Angelo M. Pellegrini | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Robert A. Kann | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Francis Rarick Johnson | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Samuel Whitehall Putnam | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Isidore Dyen | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Murray B. Emeneau | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | James Craig La Drière | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wylie Sypher | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | James Thorpe | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Robert Stuart Hoyt | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Morton Wilfred Bloomfield | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Cora Elizabeth Lutz | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Walter J. Ong | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Beekman Cox Cannon (eo) | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Arthur Mendel | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Leo Franz Schrade | Also won in 1951, 1956 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Kenneth Meyer Setton | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Morton Gabriel White | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Bertram D. Wolfe | Also won in 1950, 1953 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | María Rosa Lida de Malkiel | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | United States History | Paul Wallace Gates | |
| Humanities | United States History | Helene M. Brewer | Appointed as Helene Maxwell Hooker |
| Humanities | United States History | Arthur Stanley Link | |
| Humanities | United States History | Arthur Preston Whitaker (fr) | Also won in 1929 |
| Humanities | United States History | Charles Maurice Wiltse | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Simon Harvey Bauer | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Leo Brewer | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Marvin Carmack | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Frederick Otto Koenig | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Melvin Spencer Newman | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Cyrias Ouellet (fr) | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Henry Taube | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | David Herschel Volman | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr. | Also won in 1970 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | László Zechmeister (hu) (de) (eo) | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Howel Williams | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Wilfred Kaplan | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Stephen Cole Kleene | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | George Whitelaw Mackey | Also won in 1961, 1970 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Sidney Raffel | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William C. Boyd | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Michael Doudoroff | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irving Goodman | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irwin Clyde Gunsalus | Also won in 1959, 1967 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Abraham Mazur | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Claude Alvin Villee, Jr. | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hans Handforth Zinsser | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | Elwood Henneman | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Elmer Grimshaw Butler | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George E. Erikson | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Evelyn Hutchinson | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Robert Lunz | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Frank Alois Pitelka | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Cyril Stebbins | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Wendell Hinkle Furry | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Emil Jan Konopinski | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Harald Herborg Nielsen | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Dorothy Walcott Weeks | |
| Natural Science | Physics | John Archibald Wheeler | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | Muriel Virginia Bradley | |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | David R. Goddard | |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | George Frederik Papenfuss | |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | Bernice Giduz Schubert | |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | Marta Sherman Walters | |
| Natural Science | Statistics | John Wilder Tukey | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Luther S. Cressman | Also won in 1940 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | George M. Foster, Jr. | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Emil Walter Haury | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | David G. Mandelbaum | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Earl Francis Beach | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Raymond Adrien de Roover | Also won in 1952 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Daniel Marx, Jr. | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Tibor Scitovsky | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Philip B. Kurland | Also won in 1955 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | M. Margaret Ball | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Robert MacGregor Dawson | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | John Calyer Ranney | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Richard F. Wolfson | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Edward Norton Barnhart | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Hadley Cantril | |

## 1949 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roque Cordero | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Vicente Salas Viu | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Adolfo Salazar | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Agustí Bartra Lleonart (ca) | Also won in 1948, 1960 |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Juan Larrea y Celayeta (es) | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Joño Baptista Veiga Salles | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Carlos de Paula Couto | Also won in 1951, 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Leopoldo Nachbin | Also won in 1957, 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | José Pisanty Ovadía | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hermann Niemeyer Fernández | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roberto Luiz Pimenta de Mello | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Raúl Esteban Trucco | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ernesto Gutiérrez Ballesteros | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Lane | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | José Oiticica Filho | Also won in 1947 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Abelardo Moreno Bonilla | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arístides Herrer Alva | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Juan José Parodiz (es) | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Llewellyn Ivor Price | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paulo Emilio Vanzolini | Also won in 1955, 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Jesús M. Idrobo Muñoz | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Aníbal Buitrón Cháves | |