# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1953

One hundred and ninety-one Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1953.

## 1953 U.S. and Canadian fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Godfrey Blunden | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Owen Vincent Dodson | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Thomas Hal Phillips | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Elizabeth Spencer | Appointed as Elizabeth Spencer Rusher |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Roger Allen Baker | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Leonard Baskin | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Misch Kohn | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Armin Landeck | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Harold Paris | Also won in 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Charles Schucker | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mark Bucci | Also won in 1957 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Henry Bryan Dority | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Fetler | Also won in 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alan Hovhaness | Also won in 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Andrew W. Imbrie | Also won in 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Ayres Lessard | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Nikolai Lopatnikoff | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Bohuslav Martinů | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | William A. Garnett | Also won in 1956, 1975 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Max Yavno | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Edgar Collins Bogardus | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Paul Hamilton Engle | Also won in 1957, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Karl Jay Shapiro | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Perry Dickie Westbrook | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Clay Lancaster | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Aladar Olgyay (es) | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Victor Olgyay | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Edwin Daisley Thatcher | |
| Humanities | Biography | William Clyde DeVane | |
| Humanities | Biography | Francis Joseph Byrne Hackett | |
| Humanities | Biography | Walter Magnes Teller | |
| Humanities | British History | James Alexander Gibson | |
| Humanities | British History | Garrett Mattingly | Also won in 1936, 1945, 1960 |
| Humanities | British History | Caroline Robbins | |
| Humanities | Classics | Marion Elizabeth Blake | Also won in 1927, 1929 |
| Humanities | Classics | Henry Snyder Gehman | |
| Humanities | Classics | Virginia Randolph Grace | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Classics | Robert Lorentz Scranton | |
| Humanities | Classics | Kurt von Fritz | |
| Humanities | Classics | Mabel L. Lang | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Arthur William Hummel | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Edward Hetzel Schafer | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Benjamin Isadore Schwartz | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Arthur Frederick Wright | |
| Humanities | Education | Howard Lee Nostrand | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Kathleen Coburn | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Rudolf B. Gottfried | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Gordon Sherman Haight | Also won in 1946, 1960 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alfred Harbage | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Charlton Hinman | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | English Literature | James Gilmer McManaway | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edgar F. Shannon Jr. | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ernest Sirluck | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Justus Bier (de) | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Charles de Tolnay | Also won in 1948, 1949 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Irene Emery | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | James Thomas Flexner | Also won in 1980 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | George Howard Forsyth Jr. | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Ernst Kitzinger | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Richard Krautheimer | Also won in 1950, 1963 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Robert L. Van Nice | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Nathalia Wright (de) | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Tristram Potter Coffin | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Frederic Ramsey Jr. | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | French History | William Farr Church | Also won in 1945, 1948 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Margaret Gilman | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Marion Lena Starkey | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Andreas Dorpalen (de) | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Chester Verne Easum | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Robert George Leeson Waite | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Heinrich Meyer | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Victor Amandus Oswald, Jr | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Samuel Dickinson Stirk | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Clinton H. Gardiner | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Robert Anderson Hall Jr. | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Anna Granville Hatcher | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Cleanth Brooks | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wallace Warner Douglas | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | William York Tindall | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Leonard Howard Unger | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Alfred L. Kellogg | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | James Hinton Sledd | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Angela Diller | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Eta Harich-Schneider | Also won in 1954, 1955 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Benno Landsberger | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Hal Lehrman | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Arthur Walter Burks | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Raymond Klibansky | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Enrico de Negri (it) (de) | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles Frankel | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Sidney Hook | Also won in 1928, 1929 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Ruth C. B. Marcus | |
| Humanities | Religion | Robert McQueen Grant | Also won in 1950, 1959 |
| Humanities | Religion | William Henry Paine Hatch | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Russian History | Bertram D. Wolfe | Also won in 1949, 1950 |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Wiktor Weintraub | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Américo Castro | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Carlos Clavería (es) | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Hayward Keniston | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Edwin Jack Webber | |
| Humanities | United States History | Arthur Eugene Bestor Jr. | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | United States History | Arthur Alphonse Ekirch Jr. | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Reed Ellis | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Douthat Meade | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | United States History | Carl Parcher Russell | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Werner Goldsmith | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | James Harold Wayland | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Arthur Robert Kantrowitz | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Samuel Silver | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Leonard Gascoigne Berry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Virgil Carl Boekelheide | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | George Jura | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lester Touby Kurtz | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Herbert August Laitinen (fi) | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Stanley Livingston | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Ghormley Parr | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Allen Brewster Scott | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John Clark Sheehan | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | David Henry Templeton | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Marjorie Jean Vold | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William E. Wallace | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | George F. Carter | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John Chambers Crowell | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Hans Albert Einstein | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Maurice Ewing | Also won in 1938, 1939 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | David Grover Frey | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Charles Merwin Gilbert | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Colin Osborne Hutton | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Brian H. Mason | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Walter Munk | Also won in 1948, 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John Verhoogen | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Harry Donald Conway | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Joe Mauk Smith | |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Raymond E. Crist | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Felix Browder | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ernest Corominas | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Albert Edward Heins | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Witold Hurewicz | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Øystein Ore | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ralph Saul Phillips | Also won in 1973 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | J. Barkley Rosser | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Abraham Seidenberg | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Abraham H. Taub | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Antoni Zygmund | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Luis Valentine Amador | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Ellen Neall Duvall | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Maynard Andrew Amerine | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Konrad Bloch | Also won in 1960, 1975 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thaddeus S. Danowski | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward D. DeLamater | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ingrith Johnson Deyrup-Olsen | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John T. Edsall | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lloyd Noel Ferguson | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward Hirsch Frieden | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Leon A. Heppel | Also won in 1975 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alfred George Knudson Jr. | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Henry Koffler | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Earl Martell | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Adrian Morris Srb | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Lawrence Oncley | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Carl Pontius Swanson | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Joseph R. Bailey | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Harold F. Blum | Also won in 1936, 1945 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Anthony Calhoun Clement | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert H. Denison | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Thompson Emlen Jr. (fi) | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Herbert Friedmann | Also won in 1950, 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Carl Gans | Also won in 1977 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Gordon Enoch Gates | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Yoshio Kondo | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Eugene Nicholas Kozloff | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Joseph Arthur Colin Nicol | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Davis Snell | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Kemp Adair | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John Gilbert Daunt | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Martin Deutsch | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Henry Alan Fairbank | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Bernard Taub Feld | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Leslie L. Foldy | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Leonard Herbert Hall | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Peter Havas (de) | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Wayne Eskett Hazen | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert E. Marshak | Also won in 1960, 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Charles Keith McLane | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Arnold John Frederick Siegert | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Lincoln Constance | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Edward Smith Deevey Jr. | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Joseph Andorfer Ewan | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Charles Bixler Heiser (de) (es) | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | James Wallace Marvin | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Conrad Vernon Morton | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Gerald Bruce Ownbey (es) | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | George Ledyard Stebbins | Also won in 1960 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Fred R. Eggan | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Diamond Jenness | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Reba Paeff Mirsky | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Hortense Powdermaker | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Joseph Dorfman | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Abram Lincoln Harris | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1943 |
| Social Sciences | Law | Joseph Dainow | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Milton R. Konvitz | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Samuel H. Beer | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Rupert Emerson | Also won in 1956 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | James E. Gerald Jr. | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Howard Jay Graham | Also won in 1957 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Samuel Lubell | Also won in 1950 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Davis McEntire | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | J. Roland Pennock | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Clinton Lawrence Rossiter, III | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Jacobus tenBroek | Also won in 1961 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Clarence J. Pfaffenberger | Also won in 1954 |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Margaret Trabue Hodgen | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Howard W. Odum | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | T. Lynn Smith | Also won in 1951 |

## 1953 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Frasconi | Also won in 1953 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Joseph | Also won in 1957 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mauricio Lasansky | Also won in 1943, 1944, 1945, 1964 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Erwin Walter Palm | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Education | Alfredo T. Morales | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Carlos Augusto Luzzetti | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jorge Sahade | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gustavo Hoecker Salas (es) | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Norberto José Palleroni | Also won in 1954, 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Carlos E. Eyzaguirre (es) | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Raúl Hernández-Peón | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | José Cândido de Melo Carvalho | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Anderson Coelho de Andrade | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Fernando da Costa Novaes | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Oswaldo Giannotti | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology & Ecology | Norman Millott | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Antonio Krapovickas | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Henri Alain Liogier | Also won in 1950, 1957 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ricardo Alegría | Also won in 1953 |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Orlando Fals-Borda | Also won in 1954 |