# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1942

Eighty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1942.

## 1942 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Alexander Greendale | | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Dorothy Baker | | Novel about university life (Trio, published 1943) | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Carson McCullers | | Writing | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Eudora Alice Welty | | Writing | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Cameron Booth | St. Paul Gallery and School of Art | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dean Fausett | | Painting: Murals for the United States Air Force | Also won in 1943 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Joseph Hirsch | | Painting | Also won in 1943 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dong Kingman | | Painting: Watercolors of American scene subjects | Also won in 1943 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Charles Rudy | | Sculpture: Stone and bronze, and experimental work in terra cotta and other media | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Marion Sanford | | Sculpture | Also won in 1941 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ernst Bacon | Converse College | Composing | Also won in 1939, 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Stanley Bate | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Burrill Phillips | Eastman School of Music | Composing | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Wright Morris | | Domestic scenes in the South, Midwest, and Southwest (The Inhabitants, published 1946) | Also won in 1946, 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | W. H. Auden | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | George Zabriskie | | Long poem "involving the dualistic aspect of the private and social man" | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | British History | Lewis Perry Curtis | | | |
| Humanities | British History | Jack H. Hexter | Queens College, CUNY | History of the interregnum in England | Also won in 1947, 1979 |
| Humanities | Classics | Harold Fredrik Cherniss | Johns Hopkins University | Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy, Vol. II | |
| Humanities | Classics | Frederick Malcolm Combellack | University of Oregon | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Michael Ginsburg | University of Nebraska | Social policy of the Roman emperors | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Classics | Doro Levi | Princeton University | Mosaics of Antioch-on-the-Orontes | Also won in 1941 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | George Norbert Kates | | Court life of Old China through eight centuries | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Franklin Gary | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edward Niles Hooker | University of California, Los Angeles | History of English literary theory and criticism in the neoclassical period | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Maynard Mack | Yale University | Critical essay of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man | Also won in 1964, 1982 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Gordon Norton Ray | Harvard University | Definitive edition of the letters and private papers of William Makepeace Thackeray | Also won in 1941, 1945, 1956 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark Schorer | Harvard University | Relationship between ideas and forms in the poetry of William Blake | Also won in 1941, 1948, 1973 |
| Humanities | English Literature | A.S.P. Woodhouse | University of Toronto | John Milton | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Otto Benesch | | | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Meyer Schapiro | Columbia University | Preparation of a corpus of paintings, drawings, and ornament in manuscripts of southern France from the 10th to the end of the 12th century, with an analysis and interpretation of these works | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Saul S. Weinberg | Institute for Advanced Study | | Also won in 1941 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Justin O'Brien | Columbia University | Biographical and critical study of André Gide | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | John Dos Passos | | Life of Thomas Jefferson | Also won in 1939, 1940 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Gustavus Myers | | History of bigotry in the United States | Also won in 1941 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Harold Stein Jantz | Clark University | New England acquaintance with German thought and literature during the 17th and 18th centuries | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Francis Rarick Johnson | Stanford University | | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History | Helen Sullivan Mims | | History of the democratic tradition of Spain | Also won in 1941 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Einar Ingvald Haugen | University of Wisconsin | Linguistic experiences and behavior of Norwegian immigrants in the United States, with special reference to the historical, social, and cultural processes of immigrant life | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Maxwell David Geismar | Sarah Lawrence College | Evaluation of the 1920s in America through certain key writers of the period | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Louise Michelle Rosenblatt | | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Edmund Taite Silk | Yale University | Edits of commentary by Nicholas Trivet on Boethius | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Colin McPhee | | Balinese music | Also won in 1943 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Hans Baron | | | Also won in 1973 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Vincent Joseph Flynn | University of St. Thomas | History of the English Renaissance and Anglo-Italian relations in the last half of the 15th century | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Craig R. Thompson | Cornell University | Edition of Erasmus' Colloquia famiiliaria | Also won in 1954, 1955, 1968 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Horace Leland Friess | Columbia University | Study of the posthumous manuscripts of Felix Adler | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles William Morris | University of Chicago | General theory of signs | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alfred Whitney Griswold | Yale University | Political significance of American agriculture | |
| Humanities | United States History | Frank Hawkins Underhill | University of Toronto | Career of Edward Blake | |
| Humanities | United States History | Dixon Wecter | University of California, Los Angeles | History of the Roosevelt family in America | Also won in 1943 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Max Harrison Demorest | Wesleyan University | Physics of ice, particularly glacial ice | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Hans Jenny | University of California, Los Angeles | Biology | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | George Prior Woollard | | Seismic, gravitational, and magnetic investigations of the geological structure underlying the North American Atlantic coastal plain | Also won in 1941 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | John Charles McKinsey | New York University | Mathematical logic | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Alfred Tarski | Institute for Advanced Study | | Also won in 1941, 1955 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Simon Dworkin | McGill University | Comparison of the higher nervous activity of dogs, cats, and rats, as revealed by the experimental method of conditioned reflexes | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Thomas Rogers Forbes | Johns Hopkins University | Physiology of reproduction | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Gaunt | New York University | Physiology of the adrenal gland | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Charles Leonard Huskins | McGill University | Synthesis of cytology and the genetics of plants, animals, and man | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Salvador E. Luria | | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Dietrich H. Bodenstein [de] | Stanford University | | Also won in 1941 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | E. Raymond Hall | University of California, Los Angeles | American weasel | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Jane M. Oppenheimer | Bryn Mawr College | Development of structure and function in the central nervous system of fish | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Wilson M. Powell | University of California, Berkeley | Cosmic rays | Also won in 1941 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | John Thomas Curtis | University of Wisconsin | Octological status of the lake forests of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ontario | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Hugh Carson Cutler | Harvard University | Determination of the area in which corn originated | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | David R. Goddard | University of Rochester | Respiratory enzymes of higher plants | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Floyd Alonzo McClure | Lingnan University | Chinese bamboos | Also won in 1943 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Richard E. Schultes | Harvard University | Economic aspects of the flors of southern Colombia and adjacent Ecuador, and an ethnobotanical study of the useful plants among the Indigenous tribes of the area | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Rolf Singer | Harvard University | Mycological flora of sub-tropical America | Also won in 1952 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Gordon Townsend Bowles | University of Hawaii | Functional adaptations in the human skeleton based on Hawaiian skeletal materials | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Morris Edward Opler | Claremont Colleges | Cultures of four related Apache tribes | |
| Social Science | Economics | Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr. | Wesleyan University | History of unemployment in the United States | Also won in 1941 |
| Social Science | Economics | Lloyd Appleton Metzler | Harvard University | Cyclical fluctuations in income and investment | |
| Social Science | Economics | Robert Sidney Smith | Duke University | Guild merchants in colonial Mexico | |
| Social Science | Political Science | R. Taylor Cole [de] | Duke University | Effects of wartime social, economic, and political changes on the public personnel of Canada | Also won in 1947 |
| Social Science | Political Science | James A. C. Grant | University of California, Los Angeles | Comparative study of procedure to enforce constitutional guarantees | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Rudolf Arnheim | | Applications of principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysis | Also won in 1941 |
| Social Science | Psychology | Robert Brodie MacLeod [de] | Swarthmore College | Psychology of color vision | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Burrhus Frederic Skinner | University of Minnesota | Psychology of language | |

## 1942 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Rodríguez Luna | | | Also won in 1941 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alberto Evaristo Ginastera | | Composition | Also won in 1946, 1969 |
| Humanities | Biography | Antonio Hernández Travieso | Sepúlveda College; Institute of Secondary Education (Havana) | Life of Félix Varela | Also won in 1943 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Gabriel Fernández Ledesma | | Theme of death as depicted in the folk arts of Mexico and the Southwest United States | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Arturo Arnáiz y Freg | National Autonomous University of Mexico | History of Mexican thought | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Raúl Alberto Piérola | National Institute of Secondary Education; Popular Library of Paraná | Influence of phenomenology on contemporary North American philosophy | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Jaime Lifshitz Gaj | National Autonomous University of Mexico | General theory of orbits | Also won in 1943 |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Félix Cernuschi | National University of Tucumán | Statistical mechanics, with special reference to its application to astrophysics | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Luis Vargas Fernández | | Studies at the University of Washington | Also won in 1941 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Efrén Carlos del Pozo | National School of Biological Sciences | Studies in Boston | Also won in 1941 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Juan José Lussich Siri | Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) | Vitamin chemistry | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Raúl Cortés Peña | University of Chile | Biological control of insect pests | Also won in 1943 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Isabel Pérez Farfante | | | Also won in 1943 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Fabio Leoni Werneck | Oswaldo Cruz Institute | Taxonomic studies of the Mallophaga of mammals | Also won in 1943 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Amador Cobas | University of Puerto Rico | Correlation of high energy cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrons | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Rafael Edmundo Pontis Videla | Ministry of Agriculture (Argentina) | Cytological and microchemical studies of host plants infected with spotted wilt | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Wigberto Jiménez Moreno [es] | National Museum (Mexico) | Pre-Hispanic connections between the Indigenous cultures of Mexico and the Southeast and Southwest United States | |