# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1945

Ninety-six Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1945. More than 36 additional awards were postservice fellowships given to artists and scholars unable to apply in previous years due to the war.

## 1945 Post-Service Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Branch/service | Civilian institution | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Donald Whitney Burns | | | Painting: Oil industry's part in World War II | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Adolph Dioda | | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Davenport Duncan | | | | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James E. Peck | United States Army Air Force | | Painting: Ohio landscapes | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward A. Reep | United States Army | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mitchell Siporin | United States Army | | | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Vavruska | United States Army | | Painting: Works based on his convalescence in England in World War II | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frede Vidar | United States Army | | Painting: Southwest Pacific, based on combat sketches | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rudolph Charles von Ripper | | | | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Oliver La Farge | Air Transport Command | | History of the Air Transport Command | Also won in 1941 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Caroline Bache McMahon | Office of Strategic Services | | Book about Japan | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | William E. Wilson | United States Navy | | Writing | Also won in 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Ben Belitt | United States Army | | Prose based on his army experience | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Lawrance Thompson | | Princeton University Library | Biography of Robert Frost | |
| Humanities | Biography | John Edwin Bakeless | United States Navy | New York University | Biography of Lewis and Clark | Also won in 1936 |
| Humanities | Classics | Walter Allen, Jr. | United States Navy | Yale University | Cicero and great Roman nobles | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Henry William Spiegel | | Duquesne University | Industrial planning in Brazil | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Gordon Norton Ray | United States Navy | Harvard University | Edition of the letters and private papers of Thackeray | Also won in 1941, 1942, 1956 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Harry Bober | | City College of New York | Study of the printed books of hours, their development, style, schools, iconography, and influences | |
| Humanities | French History | William Farr Church | United States Army | University of Kentucky | Political thought in 17th-century France | Also won in 1948, 1953 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Hodding Carter | | Delta Democrat Times | Establishment of the West Florida Republic | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Paul G. Horgan | United States Army | New Mexico Military Institute | Rio Grande | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Edward Rosen | United States Army Air Corps | City College of New York | Place of Copernicus in the development of modern thought | Also won in 1941 |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Bernard Weinberg [de; it] | Washington University in St. Louis | United States Army | Literary theory in the Italian Renaissance | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Barnaby Conrad Keeney | | Harvard University | Origin and development of the feudal institution, and judgment by peers on the Continent and in England | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Claude Willis Barlow | United States Army | Mount Holyoke College | Critical edition of the works of St. Martin of Braga | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Donald E. McCown | | University of Chicago | Early cultures of Baluchistan, and the relationships of the civilizations of the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia during the third millennium | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Morris T. Keeton | | Southern Methodist University | Evaluation of the work of Edmund Montgomery | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Revilo P. Oliver | United States Army | University of Illinois | Ethico-philisophical content of humanism of the first half of the 15th century | |
| Humanities | United States History | Adrienne Koch | Office of Economic Warfare | | Social and political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | United States History | Dale L. Morgan | Office of Price Administration | | History of Mormonism and the Mormons, with particular reference to the influence of the Mormons upon American life since 1830 | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | United States History | Henry Fowles Pringle | | | History of World War II on the home front and the military front | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | United States History | Henry L. Smith | | University of Minnesota | America's part in the development of world air routes and the history of American foreign air policy | |
| Humanities | United States History | C. Vann Woodward | United States Navy Reserve | Scripps College | Origins of the New South, 1880-1913 (published 1951) | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Leo Beranek | Office of Scientific Research and Development | Harvard University | Acoustics | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Orville T. Bailey | Office of Scientific Research and Development | Harvard Medical School | Application of physiological methods to problems of degeneration in nerve fibers and myelin sheaths | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Harold Francis Blum | United States Naval Research Laboratory | | Evaluation of evolutionary concepts | Also won in 1936, 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Charles Kittel | United States Navy | | Electrical and mechanical properties of matter at microwave radio frequencies | Also won in 1956, 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | E. Yale Dawson | United States Army | University of California | Marine algae and marine flora on the Pacific coast of Mexico and Central America | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Roy Overstreet | | University of California | Absorption and behavior of inorganic ions in plant nutrition | Also won in 1957 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Roy Franklin Barton [ru] | | St. Andrews High School | Philippine folklore | Also won in 1941 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Dorothy Mary Spencer | Office of Strategic Services | | Munda people | Also won in 1941 |
| Social Sciences | Education | Robert King Hall | United States Navy | Harvard University | Educational system in Japan with a view to rehabilitation after the war | Also won in 1949, 1952 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Richard Poate Stebbins | Office of Strategic Services | | Historical study of art patronage | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | G. LaVerne Freeman | United States Navy | Northwestern University | Nervous tension in man | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Alexander H. Leighton | United States Navy | | Comparative study of Navajo, Eskimo, and Japanese peoples | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Dorothea Leighton | | | Comparative study of Navajo, Eskimo, and Japanese peoples | Also won in 1947 |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Herbert Aptheker | United States Army | | African Americans in World War II | |

## 1945 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Karl E. Fortress | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Donal Hord | | | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Fred Kabotie | | Prehistoric Mimbres pottery | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward Laning | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jacob Lawrence | | Painting: Harlem life and 14-panel series on war | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jack Levine | | Painting | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eleanor Platt | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ellis Wilson | | Painting | Also won in 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Robert Pick | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jean Stafford | | Writing | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Samuel Barber | | Composition | Also won in 1947, 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Charles F. Bryan | | Composition | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Elliott Carter | | Composition | Also won in 1950 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Lukas Foss | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Composition | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Norman Dello Joio | | Composition | Also won in 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dai-keong Lee | | Composition | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Nikolai Lopatnikoff | | Composition | Also won in 1953 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Jack Delano | Farm Security Administration; Office of War Information | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Theodore Brett Weston | | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Stanley J. Kunitz | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Marianne Moore | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Theodore Roethke | | Writing | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Beale Davis | University of South Carolina | | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Gordon Lillard | Indiana University | Part played in American history by the forest between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ralph Leslie Rusk | Columbia University | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | Henry-Russell Hitchcock | | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Marie Kimball | | Thomas Jefferson, 1776-1789, including his governorship of Virginia and his ministry to France | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | British History | Franklin Le Van Baumer | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | British History | William Huse Dunham, Jr. | Yale University | | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | British History | Garrett Mattingly | Long Island University | | Also won in 1936, 1953, 1960 |
| Humanities | Classics | Thomas R. S. Broughton | Bryn Mawr College | Preparation of an annual list of the magistrates of the Roman Republic, including minor officials and members of the priestly colleges | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Classics | Israel E. Drabkin | | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Louis Alexander MacKay | University of British Columbia | Structure and composition of the Iliad | |
| Humanities | English Literature | James Emerson Phillips, Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Frederick A. Pottle | Yale University | James Boswell | Also won in 1952 |
| Humanities | Film, Video and Radio Studies | Siegfried Kracauer | | "Social, political, and artistic situation of postwar Germany" | Also won in 1943, 1944 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Otto Benesch | Harvard University | Corpus of Rembrandt's drawings | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Edward Millman | | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Elizabeth Wilder Weismann | Library of Congress | Studies and sculpture of colonial Mexico | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | George Kumler Anderson | | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | C. Grant Loomis [fr] | University of California, Berkeley | White magic and the miracles of Christian legend | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Jerre G. Mangione | | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Bradford Smith | | Narrative on immigration of Japanese to the United States | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Hans Rosenberg | Brooklyn College | Book titled The Prusso-German Junkers: A History of a Social Class | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Alrik Gustafson [sv] | University of Minnesota | Biography of August Strindberg | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Ernest Campbell Mossner | Syracuse University | | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | John William Shirley | Michigan State College | Unpublished manuscripts of Thomas Hariot | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Benjamin N. Nelson | | Relations between conscious and casuistry in the moral philosophy and law of the later Middle Ages (12th-16th centuries) | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Charles W. Jones | Cornell University | History of Romanesque literature in Western Europe between approx. 325 and 1125 A.D. | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Mary Hatch Marshall | Colby College | History of the medieval religious plays of France, Germany, and England exclusive of the saints' plays | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Richard S. Angell | Columbia University | Organization of music libraries and archives | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Jacques Barzun | Columbia University | Hector Berlioz | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Frederic Brenton Fitch | Yake University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Abraham Kaplan | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Norman A. Malcolm | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles Leslie Stevenson | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Frederick Ludwig Will | University of Illinois | Theory of knowledge, with special reference to the problems of empiricism | |
| Humanities | United States History | Clement Eaton | Lafayette College | Liberalism in the New South, 1865-1929 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Paul Henry Giddens | Allegheny College | Growth of the petroleum industry in the United States, 1870-1895 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Merrill Monroe Jensen | University of Wisconsin | History of the United States during the confederation period, 1781-1789 | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Samuel Herrick | University of California | | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lindsay Helmholz | Dartmouth College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Dean S. Tarbell | Office of Scientific Research and Development | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | John Williams Calkin | Office of Chief of Naval Operations | | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Paul Erdős | | | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Edwin Hewitt | Harvard University | Topology | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Walter H. Pitts | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1947 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Chandler McCuskey Brooks | Office of Scientific Research and Development | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Damon Boynton | Cornell University | Ion competition as a factor in the nutrition of plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Britton Chance | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1947 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Seymour S. Cohen | Office of Scientific Research and Development | | Also won in 1982 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Denis Llewellyn Fox | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Frank H. Johnson | Princeton University | Fundamental mechanisms that control biological processes and phenomena | Also won in 1944, 1950 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roger Yate Stanier | Merck & Co. | Nature, relationships, and biological activities of bacteria, particularly myxobacteria | Also won in 1951, 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Kenneth W. Cooper | Princeton University | Research at the California Institute of Technology | Also won in 1944 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ellsworth Charles Dougherty [fr] | University of California | Certain parasitic nematodes | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Johannes F. Holtfreter | McGill University | Genetics | Also won in 1944 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Lewis H. Kleinholz | Cambridge Junior College | Physiological and chemical interrelationships in crustaceans | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Edward Novitski | | Genetic effect of ultra-high frequency irradation | Also won in 1974 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Carlos E. Chardón | Tropical Agriculture Institute | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Aaron John Sharp | University of Tennessee | Correlations between plants of the Southern Appalachians and the temperate floras of the mountains and highlands of Mexico and Central America | Also won in 1944 |
| Social Science | Economics | Leonid Hurwicz | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Science | Economics | Mabel F. Timlin | University of Saskatchewan | Welfare economics | |
| Social Science | Psychology | George L. Kreezer | Cornell University (visiting) | Mathematical analysis of physiological regulatory systems on the basis of physical automatic control theory | Also won in 1947 |
| Social Science | Psychology | Theodore Christian Schneirla | New York University; American Museum of Natural History | Relationship between instinct and learning in insect psychology | Also won in 1944 |
| Social Science | Sociology | Charles Wright Mills | University of Maryland | White Collar: The American Middle Classes (published 1951) | |

## 1945 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | José Alonso | | | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mauricio Lasansky | | | Also won in 1943, 1944, 1953, 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jesús Escobedo Trejo | | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Juan A. Orrego-Salas | | | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Geography and Environmental Studies | Gerardo A. Canet | Institute of La Víbora, Havana | | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Ramón Iglesia [es; gl] | El Colegio de México | Mexican historiography in the 16th century | Also won in 1943 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | John Corominas | National University of Cuyo | | Also won in 1948, 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Félix Cernuschi | National University of Tucumán | | Also won in 1942 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Guido Münch Paniagua | University of Chicago (PhD student) | | Also won in 1944, 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Carlos Ulrrico Cesco | La Plata Astronomical Observatory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Rafael Laguardia [es] | University of the Republic (Uruguay) | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Eduardo Aguirre Pequeño [es] | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | José Jesús Estable | Instituto de Medicina Experimental | | Also won in 1947 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Alfonso Graña | University of the Republic | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Otto Guilherme Bier [pt] | Biological Institute (São Paulo) | | Also won in 1941, 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Manuel Maldonado Koerdell | Autonomous University of Nuevo León | Comparative anatomy, especially of the vertebrate skeleton | Also won in 1944 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Luis René Rivas y Díaz | La Salle College | | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Bernardo Villa Ramírez | National Autonomous University of Mexico | | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Sigurd Arentsen Steeger | Ministry of Agriculture (Chile) | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Elisa Hirschhorn | University of La Plata | Plant pathology | Also won in 1944 |
| Social Science | Economics | Raúl García | National University of Córdoba | Agrarian policy in the United States | Also won in 1943 |