# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1971

A total of 354 scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1971. $3,787,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 2,363. Of the 96 universities represented, Harvard University boasted the most faculty winners (21), with University of California, Berkeley in second (19) and Columbia University in third (15). This was the first time in several years that Berkeley did not have the most winners.

## 1971 United States and Canada fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Twyla Tharp | Twyla Tharp Dance | | Also won in 1974 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Julie Bovasso | Sarah Lawrence College | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Ed Bullins | | Playwriting | Also won in 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Lonnie Carter | | Creative writing for theater | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Charles Ludlam | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Rochelle Owens | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Sam Shepard | | | Also won in 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Richard Ernest Whitehall | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Robert Coover | | Writing | Also won in 1974 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Victor Kolpacoff | Hobart and William Smith Colleges (visiting) | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Wilfrid Sheed | Princeton University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Henry L. Van Dyke Jr. | Kent State University (in residence) | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Film | James A. Herbert | University of Georgia | Four Films: Fig, Pear I, Pear II, and Plum | Also won in 1989 |
| Creative Arts | Film | Richard L. Myers | Kent State University | | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ben Berns [de; nl] | University of North Carolina, Greensboro (visiting) | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Harry D. Bouras | Columbia College Chicago | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rosemarie Castoro | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Donald De Mauro | SUNY Binghamton | Lithographic printing process | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dale Eldred | Kansas City Art Institute | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sam Gilliam | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Golfinopoulos | Art Students League | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Charles S. Klabunde | Cooper Union | Etchings inspired by the I Ching | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Vincent Longo | Hunter College, CUNY | Graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Novros | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Passuntino | | Graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Philip Pearlstein | Brooklyn College | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Murray Reich | Bard College | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward Ruscha | | Graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Richard Serra | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | George Smith | Hunter College, CUNY | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Kimber Smith | Dayton Art Institute | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Michael Steiner | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Doug Wheeler | | "Experiments in Environments" | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Michael Bronzen | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Marc-Antonio Consoli | | Composing | Also won in 1979 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Barbara Kolb | | Composing | Also won in 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | İlhan Mimaroğlu | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Charles Mingus | New York State University at Buffalo | Composing | Also won in 1978 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Loren Rush | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Halsey Stevens | University of Southern California | Composing | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Olly W. Wilson | University of California, Berkeley | Composing | Also won in 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Claudia Love | | Yanomami people | Also won in 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Mark Cohen | King's College | Travel to Ireland and Greece | Also won in 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Len Gittleman | Harvard University | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Chauncey Hare | | Domestic scenes of working-class people | Also won in 1969, 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Enrico Natali | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Series: American Landscapes | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Cervin Robinson | | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Henry Wessel | | "U.S. highways and the adjacent landscape" | Also won in 1978 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Tom Clark | The Paris Review | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Robert Creeley | San Francisco State College (visiting) | Writing | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Robert Fitzgerald | Harvard University | Verse translation of the Iliad | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Thomas Kinsella | Temple University | Anthology of Irish tradition | Also won in 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Thom Gunn | University of California, Berkeley | House in San Francisco | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Ruth Stone | | New roof for her home | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | African Studies | David W. Cohen | Johns Hopkins University | Precolonial history of the East African Lake Victoria region | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Millicent Bell | Boston University | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | John Clendenning | Valley State College | Life and thoughts of Josiah Royce | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Hamlin L. Hill | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Dan E. McCall | Cornell University | Critical study of James Agee | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Larry Neal | Yale University | Contemporary Afro-American culture | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ernest Samuels | Northwestern University | Bernard Berenson biography | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Milton R. Stern | University of Connecticut | Politics of American literature | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Hyatt H. Waggoner | Brown University | Ralph Waldo Emerson as a poet | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Walter L. Creese | University of Illinois | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Bernard Rudofsky | | | Also won in 1963, 1964 |
| Humanities | Bibliography | J. Periam Danton | University of California, Berkeley | Comparative librarianship | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Robert B. Downs | University of Illinois | Bibliographical guide to research resources in Britain (published 1973) | |
| Humanities | Biography | Matthew J. Bruccoli | University of South Carolina | Biography of John O'Hara | |
| Humanities | Biography | Ved Mehta | The New Yorker | | Also won in 1977 |
| Humanities | Biography | Richard Winston | | | |
| Humanities | British History | Arthur B. Ferguson | Duke University | How the people of 16th-century Tudor England thought of themselves in relationship to the past | |
| Humanities | British History | Alfred M. Gollin | University of California, Santa Barbara | Battle of Britain | Also won in 1961, 1964 |
| Humanities | British History | Katherine S. Van Eerde | Muhlenberg College | John Ogilby | |
| Humanities | Classics | Steele Commager | Amherst College | | |
| Humanities | Classics | George Patrick Goold [de] | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Wesley D. Smith | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Humanities | Dance Studies | Arlene Croce | | | Also won in 1985 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Donald Keene | Columbia University | | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | James Jo-Yu Liu | Stanford University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Leo Braudy | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Patricia B. Craddock | Goucher College | Biography of Edward Gibbon | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert C. Elliott | University of California, San Diego | Genre criticism | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Philip J. Finkelpearl | Lehman College | Historical and critical study of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays | |
| Humanities | English Literature | William E. Fredeman | University of British Columbia | 19th-century pre-Raphealite literary movement in England | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Irving Howe | Hunter College, CUNY | Jewish experience in America | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | English Literature | George L. Levine | Livingston College | Conventions of realism in the 19th-century novel | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert B. Martin | Princeton University | | Also won in 1983 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Stanley Stewart | University of California, Riverside | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Helen H. Vendler | Boston University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Don Marion Wolfe | Brooklyn College | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Robert L. Herbert | Yale University | Evolution of a secular iconography in French painting, 1850-1920 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Sam Hunter | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Bates Lowry | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Harold Edwin Wethey | University of Michigan | | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Richard M. Dorson | Indiana University | | Also won in 1949, 1964 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Bruce Jackson | University at Buffalo | Historical and psychological study of Afro-American folklore | |
| Humanities | French History | Nathanael Greene | Wesleyan University | French provincial politics in the 1930s | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Marcel Gutwirth | Haverford College | | Also won in 1985 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Joseph H. McMahon | Wesleyan University | Jean-Jacques Rousseau's La nouvelle Héloïse | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Eléonore Maria Zimmermann | University of Rochester | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | David Cort | Life | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Leonard Kriegel | City College of New York | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Peter Schrag | University of Massachusetts, Amherst (visiting) | Politics of social disintegration | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Jerome Blum | Princeton University | | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | H. G. Koenigsberger | Cornell University | States General of the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Gerhard L. Weinberg | University of Michigan | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Martin Bircher [de] | McGill University | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Ernst F. Hoffmann | Hunter College, CUNY | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Wolfgang Leppmann [de] | University of Oregon | | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Ralph Manheim | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Jeffrey L. Sammons | Yale University | Literary sociology | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Stillman Drake | University of Toronto | | Also won in 1976 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Nathan Sivin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Arnold W. Thackray | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1985 |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Mark Musa | Indiana University | | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Jaime Alazraki | University of California, San Diego | Structure and style in the short stories of Julio Cortazar | Also won in 1982 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Noam Chomsky | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Syntax and semantics | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Bernard Spolsky | University of New Mexico | Relationship of language and education | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Richard A. Blessing | University of Washington | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Robert Gorham Davis | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Isabel Gamble MacCaffrey | Tufts University | Spenser's Allegory: The Anatomy of Imagination (published 1976) | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Martin Price | Yale University | Changing conceptions of character in the novel | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Angeliki Laiou | Harvard University | | Also won in 1978 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | John Freccero [it] | Yale University | Dante's allegory | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Henry A. Kelly | University of California, Los Angeles | Research in Chelsea, London | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Lars Lönnroth | University of California, Berkeley | Njáls saga | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Philip Gossett | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | R. M. Longyear | University of Kentucky | Musical Romanticism | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Leon Plantinga | Yale University | Music of Muzio Clementi | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | James T. Monroe | University of California, Berkeley | Poetry of Arab Spain from the 10th to the 15th centuries | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Mario A. Bunge | McGill University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Karsten Harries | Yale University | Bavarian rococo church | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Alvin C. Plantinga | Calvin College | Writing his fourth philosophy book | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Giorgio Tonelli | SUNY Binghamton | Historical background of Immanuel Kant's philosophy | |
| Humanities | Religion | Van A. Harvey | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Religion | Charles H. Long | University of Chicago Divinity School | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Malcolm L. Peel | Coe College | Translation and interpretation of ancient writings discovered near Nag Hammadi | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Vartan Gregorian | University of Texas, Austin | National culture in Soviet Armenia, 1920-1970 | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Reginald Ely Zelnik [pl] | University of California, Berkeley | Labor and society in Tsarist Russia, 1871-1891 | |
| Humanities | Science Writing | Hardy M. Edwards, Jr. | University of Georgia | Nutrition and endocrine function | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Samuel Gordon Armistead | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Edmund de Chasca | University of Iowa | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Rafael Pérez de la Dehesa [es] | University of California, Berkeley | Origins of the Generation of 1898 | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Antonio Regalado [es] | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Emma Speratti-Piñero [es; de] | Wheaton College | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | George C. Izenour | Yale University | History of theater design | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Arthur H. Saxon | University of Connecticut | Biography of Andrew Ducrow | Also won in 1982 |
| Humanities | United States History | Stephen Foster | Northern Illinois University | Origins of congregational polity in England and America, 1620-1649 | |
| Humanities | United States History | John R. Howe | University of Minnesota | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Nathan I. Huggins | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alfred F. Hurley | US Air Force Academy | Institutional history of the US Air Force | |
| Humanities | United States History | Stanley I. Kutler | University of Wisconsin, Madison | John Marshall's judicial career | |
| Humanities | United States History | August Meier | Kent State University | History of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (with Elliott M. Rudwick) | |
| Humanities | United States History | Stephen B. Oates | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Biography of Abraham Lincoln | |
| Humanities | United States History | Earl S. Pomeroy | University of Oregon | | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | United States History | Richard A. Preston | Duke University | Military history of Canadian-American relations, 1867-1917 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Elliott M. Rudwick | Kent State University | History of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (with August Meier) | |
| Humanities | United States History | William Stanton | University of Pittsburgh | Intelllectual history of the United States, 1815-1848 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | C. K. Chu | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Stanford S. Penner | University of California, San Diego | Spectroscopy; theory of reactive flows | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Steven E. Schwarz | University of California, Berkeley | Quantum electronics | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Peter J. Wangersky | Dalhousie University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Norman J. Zabusky | Bell Telephone Laboratories | Computational fluid physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Donald E. Gault | Ames Research Center | Impacts made by micro-particles on a simulated lunar surface | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | John A. Simpson | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1984 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Paul D. Bartlett | Harvard University | | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Paul Delahay | New York University | | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Leon M. Dorfman | Ohio State University | Research at the Royal Institution of Great Britain | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Saul T. Epstein | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Quantum chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Willis H. Flygare | University of Illinois | Structure of liquids | Also won in 1978 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robin M. Hochstrasser | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Stephen J. Lippard | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Fred W. McLafferty | Cornell University | Techniques of mass spectrometry in organic chemistry, biochemistry and photochemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Norbert T. Porile | Purdue University | High energy chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | G. Wilse Robinson | California Institute of Technology | Photobiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Glen A. Russell | Iowa State University | Free radical chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Marvin J. Stern | Yeshiva University | Isotopes | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Ulrich P. Strauss | Rutgers University | Physical chemistry of polyelectrolytes | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard L. Wolfgang | Yale University | Chemical kinetics | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | King-Sun Fu | Purdue University | New approach to pattern recognition through stochastic languages, considering such factors as noise and distortion | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Aravind Joshi | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Pravin Varaiya | University of California, Berkeley | Optimal decisions in large systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | James R. Arnold | University of California, San Diego | Pure and applied geochemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Robert A. Berner | Yale University | Sedimentary geochemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Kenneth J. Hsü | ETH Zurich | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Arvid M. Johnson | Stanford University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Robert L. Kovach | Man's intervention in geologic processes | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Ferren MacIntyre | University of California, Santa Barbara | Philosophical studies of man, nature and technology | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Allan R. Robinson | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John T. Wasson | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Rutherford Aris | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Charles A. Eckert | University of Illinois | Chemical kinetics | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Gareth Thomas | University of California, Berkeley | High voltage electron microscopy | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Lars V. Ahlfors | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Louis Auslander | CUNY Graduate Center | Research at the Institute for Advanced Studies | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Patrick Billingsley | University of Chicago | Research at University of Cambridge | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Rafael V. Chacon | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Hubert Halkin | University of California, San Diego | Optimization theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Heisuke Hironaka | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Peter E. Ney [de] | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Mathematical analysis of complex biological models | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Murray Rosenblatt | University of California, San Diego | Mathematical statistics and probability theory | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Walter A. Strauss | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Raul E. Falicov | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Alexander Leaf | Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Kenneth L. Melmon | University of California Medical Center | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | David A. Prince | Stanford University School of Medicine | Abnormalities of single nerve cells in epilepsy | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Paul G. Quie | University of Minnesota Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Leon E. Rosenberg | Yale University School of Medicine | Biochemical genetics | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert Silber | New York University School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Bruce A. D. Stocker | Stanford University | | Also won in 1981 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Elijah Adams | University of Maryland School of Medicine | Synthesis of peptides | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | W. Lane Barksdale | New York University School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Harold J. Bright | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ellis Englesberg | University of California, Santa Barbara | Mammalian cell genetics | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irving I. Geschwind | University of California, Davis | Research at National Institute for Medical Research | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jerry L. Hedrick | University of California, Davis | Biochemistry of fertilization | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Frans F. Jöbsis | Duke University | Cellular physiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jack F. Kirsch | University of California, Berkeley | Enzyme reaction mechanisms | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel E. Koshland Jr. | University of California, Berkeley | Mechanisms of enzyme action | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Leonard S. Lerman | Vanderbilt University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | David E. Metzler | Iowa State University | Chemistry of metabolism | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | David R. Morris | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Leslie A. Orgel | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | Theory of aging | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irwin A. Rose | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | George Streisinger | University of Oregon | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Noboru Sueoka | Princeton University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Harold Wasserman | New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University | Calcium physiology | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Abraham Spector | Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons | Protein synthesis in bacterial systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Tyler Bonner | Princeton University | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paul A. Colinvaux | Ohio State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Joseph H. Connell | University of California, Santa Barbara | Experimental studies in population ecology | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William M. Hamner III | University of California, Davis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arnold G. Kluge | University of Michigan | Research in Australia | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Michael Menaker | University of Texas, Austin | Research at the University of Montpellier | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George B. Schaller | New York Zoological Society; Rockefeller University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Joseph Ballam | Stanford University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Vernon D. Barger | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Theoretical studies in high energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Boris W. Batterman | Cornell University | Solid-state physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David O. Caldwell | University of California, Santa Barbara | Elementary particle physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Geoffrey V. Chester | Cornell University | Low-temperature physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Benjamin D. Day | Argonne National Laboratory | Research at the Niels Bohr Institute | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Sidney David Drell | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Thomas Ferbel | University of Rochester | Research at Fermilab | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Norman C. Ford | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Characteristics of large molecules such as those that make up living tissue | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Steven Frautschi | California Institute of Technology | High-energy particle physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Murray Gell-Mann | California Institute of Technology | Elementary particle physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lee Grodzins | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Frank S. Ham | General Electric | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David Lowery Hendrie | Lawrence Radiation Laboratory | Experimental studies in high-energy nuclear physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Kenneth A. Johnson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Gordon L. Kane | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David Litster | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard Marrus | University of California, Berkeley | Quantum electrodynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | George E. Masek | University of California, San Diego | High-energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul C. Martin [de] | Harvard University | | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Carl E. McIlwain | University of California, San Diego | Plasma phenomena in the magnetosphere | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Yoichiro Nambu | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1977 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lee G. Pondrom [de] | University of Wisconsin, Madison | High-energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert V. Pound | Harvard University | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Walter Selove | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard E. Taylor | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | Research at CERN | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Norman I. Bishop | Oregon State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Norman E. Good | Michigan State University | Bioenergetics of ion movements in photosynthetic systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Subodh K. Jain | University of California, Davis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Tom J. Mabry | University of Texas, Austin | Metabolic role in plant development | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Gerald Berreman | University of California, Berkeley | Urban social interaction in India | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | William Oliver Bright | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Robbins Burling | University of Michigan | Research in Toulouse | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | J. Desmond Clark | University of California, Berkeley | African paleolithic archaeology | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Lambros Comitas | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Robert H. Dyson Jr. | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | John J. Gumperz | University of California, Berkeley | Sociolinguistics | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | William Hardy McNeill | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1985 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | John Middleton | New York University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Peter J. Powell | St. Augustine's Center for American Indians | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Elliott P. Skinner | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Alfred S. Eichner | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Gerald K. Helleiner | University of Toronto | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Charles E. Lindblom | Yale University | Comparative study of politico-economic systems | Also won in 1950, 1985 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Robert A. Mundell | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | John W. Pratt | Harvard University | Research in Kyoto | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Charles E. Bidwell | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Lee J. Cronbach | Stanford University | Interactions of psychological measurements and social policy | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Joseph J. Schwab | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Peter O. Wacker | Rutgers University | Historical-cultural geography of New Jersey before 1800 | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Francis A. Allen | University of Michigan | Concept of political crime | Also won in 1977 |
| Social Sciences | Law | Jerome A. Cohen | Harvard Law School | Research in Kyoto | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Melvin A. Eisenberg | University of California, Berkeley | Modern corporate decision-making | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Charles Fried | Harvard University Law School | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Grant Gilmore | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Herbert L. Packer | Stanford University | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Ralph K. Winter | Yale University | Labor law, economic policy, and poverty programs | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Gar Alperovitz | University of Cambridge | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Karl W. Deutsch | Harvard University | Formulation of a general theory of politics | Also won in 1954 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | George Kateb | Amherst College | Study of the radical critique of liberal democracy | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Everett Carll Ladd Jr. | University of Connecticut | Political responses to social change in the American experience | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Joseph LaPalombara | Yale University | Role of public bureaucracies in effecting political and social change | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Hanna Pitkin | University of California, Berkeley | Nature of self and its significance for politics | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Hanes Walton | Savannah State College | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Neal Wood | York University, Toronto | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Eugene Burnstein | University of Michigan | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Emilia Ferreiro | University of the Republic | Comparative developmental psycholinguistics | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | George Mandler | University of California, San Diego | Cognitive psychology | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | David H. Raab | Brooklyn College | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Leo Rangell | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Roger Newland Shepard | Stanford University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Patrick Suppes | Stanford University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | David Garrett Winter | Wesleyan University | Psychology of power | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Norman Birnbaum | Amherst College | Marxist legacy in sociology | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Troy Duster | University of California, Berkeley | Colonial analogy and the "black situation" in the United States | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Seymour Martin Lipset | Harvard University | Political role of intellectuals | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Theodore Roszak | California State University, Hayward | The making of a counterculture | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Ezra F. Vogel | Harvard University | | |

## 1971 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Max Aub | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Life and times of Luis Buñuel | Also won in 1966, 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Daniel Moyano [de; es; pt] | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Jorge R. Preloran | Harvard University | Filmmaking in Argentina | Also won in 1975 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Dias | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Juan Downey | Pratt Institute | Sculpture | Also won in 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Fernando Maza [d] | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alejandro Otero | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Carlos R. Alsina | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Edward Kamau Brathwaite | University of the West Indies | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Marco Antonio Montes de Oca | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Writing | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Armando D. Mendes | Universidade Federal do Pará | River-basin planning in the Amazon region | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Jorge Elliott | Universidad de Chile | Creation of visual images in art and literature | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Jorge Arias de Greiff [es] | National University of Colombia | History of the development of astronomy in Colombia | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Fernando Ainsa [de; es; fr] | El Diario | The Latin American novel | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Haroldo de Campos | | Development of the Brazilian contemporary novel | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Fernando von Reichenbach | Torcuato di Tella Institute | Computer-based experiments on sound synthesis from graphs | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | José Rafael Echeverría [es] | Universidad de Puerto Rico | Concept of general studies | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Rafael Herbst [fi] | National University of the Northeast | Triassic flora | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jorge E. Allende | University of Chile | Regulation of protein synthesis in plant cells | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ernesto G. Bade | Campomar Institute of Research in Biochemistry | Control mechanisms of protein biosynthesis | Also won in 1970 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jorge Cerbón Solórzano [es] | Instituto Politécnico Nacional | Spectroscopic studies of membrane phenomena | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Luiz R. Travassos [pt] | University of Buenos Aires | 16th-century chroniclers of Spanish America | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Alejo Mesa | University of the Republic | Cytological studies of Antarctic cricket-like insects | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Roberto L. Lobo e Silva | University of São Paulo | Solid state physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Carlos Alberto Luengo | Bariloche Atomic Centre | Low-temperature solid state physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Margaret U. Mee | | Illustrated book of Amazonian plants | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Miguel Chase-Sardi | Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción" | Ethnological studies of "Paraguayan Indians" | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Julio Cotler | National University of San Marcos | Contemporary Peru | |