# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1948

One hundred and twelve Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1948. Twenty-five of the artists and scholars were from California, the most from any state.

## 1948 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Theodore Ward | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Saul Bellow | Also won in 1955 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Sam Byrd | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James Farl Powers | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jean Stafford | Also won in 1945 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | William Woods | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Marguerite Young | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Francis Lee | |
| Creative Arts | Film | John Hales Whitney | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eugene Berman | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sue Fuller | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Allan Capron Houser | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Victoria Hutson Huntley | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mitchell Jamieson | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Reuben Tam | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Denny Winters | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Nicolai Tichanovitch Berezowsky | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Romeo Cascarino | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Leon Kirchner | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hubert Weldon Lamb | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | H. Owen Reed | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Ansel Adams | Also won in 1946, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | James A. Fitzsimmons | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Douglas Valentine LePan | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kenneth Rexroth | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Peter R. Viereck | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Charles John Olson | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Norman Holmes Pearson | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Robert Woods Kennedy | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Hugh Sinclair Morrison | |
| Humanities | British History | David Harris Willson | Also won in 1941, 1943, 1963 |
| Humanities | Classics | John Petersen Elder | |
| Humanities | Classics | Louise Adams Holland | |
| Humanities | Dance Studies | Edwin Denby | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Wing-tsit Chan | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Louis Morton Hacker | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Robert Sabatino Lopez | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Erskine Hankins | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Louis L. Martz | Also won in 1981 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ada Blanche Nisbet | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark Schorer | Also won in 1941, 1942, 1973 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Charles de Tolnay | Also won in 1949, 1953 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Horst Woldemar Janson | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Marvin Chauncey Ross | Also won in 1938, 1939, 1952 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Bertrand Harris Bronson | Also won in 1943, 1944 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Harold Courlander | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | French History | William Farr Church | Also won in 1945, 1953 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Jean-Albert Bédé | |
| Humanities | French Literature | William Kenneth Cornell | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Herbert Dieckmann (es) (de) (fr) (tr) | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Isidore Silver (de) | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Sally Carrighar | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Joseph Kinsey Howard | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Charles Calvert Bayley | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Engel Sluiter | |
| Humanities | Italian History | Antonio Pace | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Yakov Malkiel | Also won in 1959, 1966 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Eric Russell Bentley | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Edwin Honig | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wilbur Samuel Howell | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Josephine Miles | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Reuben Wallenrod (ru) | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Francis James Carmody (de) | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Ruth J. Dean | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Theodor Ernst Mommsen | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Helaine Newstead | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | John C. Pope | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Arnold Williams | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Stephen Davidson Tuttle | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Otto John Gombosi (de) | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Erich Hertzmann (de) | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | William Frankena | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Richard T. Arnold | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Robert E. Connick | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Antoine Giguère | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Michael Peech | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Walter Munk | Also won in 1953, 1962 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Claude Charles Chevalley | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Irving Kaplansky | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Norman Levinson | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Henry Shepard Fuller | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Doris Phelps Orwin | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Erwin Chargaff | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roy Philip Forster | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Choh Hao Li | |
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | James Mather Sprague | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ellsworth Charles Dougherty (fr) | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Henry Mickey | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Julian Knause Knipp | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Lawrence Rogers Blinks | Also won in 1939, 1957 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Orville Thomas Bonnett | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Pierre Dansereau | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Ralph Emerson | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Adriance Sherwood Foster | Also won in 1941 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Roy Wesley Nixon | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harold Ignatius Paul Olmo | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Charles Madeira Rick, Jr. | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Ismael Vélez | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | John Lawrence Angel | |
| Social Science | Economics | George Vickers Haythorne | |
| Social Science | Economics | John Perry Miller | |
| Social Science | Economics | Paul Samuelson | |
| Social Science | Economics | Warren Candler Scoville | Also won in 1955 |
| Social Science | Law | Samuel Edmund Thorne | Also won in 1951, 1956 |
| Social Science | Political Science | Robert W. Frase | |
| Social Science | Political Science | George Francis Gilman Stanley | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Joseph Barrell | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Robert Ward Leeper | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Gregory H. Razran | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Hans Wallach | |

## 1948 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alejandro Mario Illanes | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Miguel Sopó Duque | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Agustí Bartra Lleonart | Also won in 1949, 1960 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | John Corominas | Also won in 1945, 1957 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | José Antonio Portuondo Valdor (es) | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | José María Ferrater Mora | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Víctor M. Blanco | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Luis Hernán Tejada-Flores | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Candido Lima da Silva Dias (pt) | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Mauro Pereira Barretto | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Juan García Ramos | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Carlos Chagas | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thales Martins | Also won in 1947 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roberto Luiz Pimenta de Mello | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Julio Morató Manaro | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Juan Gerónimo Esteban | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Abraham Willink | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Science | Physics | José Leite Lopes | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Jaime Guiscafre-Arrillaga | |