Eighty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1942.[1]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Playwriting | [2] | |||
| Fiction | Novel about university life (Trio, published 1943) | [3] | ||||
| Writing | Also won in 1946 | [4] | ||||
| Also won in 1949 | [5] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Painting | |||||
| Also won in 1943 | [6] | |||||
| Painting | Also won in 1943 | [7] | ||||
| Painting: Watercolors of American scene subjects | Also won in 1943 | [8] | ||||
| Sculpture: Stone and bronze, and experimental work in terra cotta and other media | [9] | |||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1941 | [10] | ||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1939, 1964 | [11] | |||
| [12] | ||||||
| Also won in 1961 | ||||||
| Photography | Domestic scenes in the South, Midwest, and Southwest (The Inhabitants, published 1946) | Also won in 1946, 1954 | [13] | |||
| Poetry | Writing | |||||
| Long poem "involving the dualistic aspect of the private and social man" | Also won in 1946 | [14] | ||||
| Humanities | British History | [15] | ||||
| Also won in 1947, 1979 | [16] | |||||
| Classics | Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and the Academy, Vol. II | |||||
| [17] | ||||||
| Social policy of the Roman emperors | Also won in 1939 | [18] | ||||
| Also won in 1941 | ||||||
| East Asian Studies | Court life of Old China through eight centuries | [19] | ||||
| English Literature | ||||||
| History of English literary theory and criticism in the neoclassical period | Also won in 1950 | [20] | ||||
| Critical essay of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man | Also won in 1964, 1982 | |||||
| Also won in 1941, 1945, 1956 | ||||||
| Also won in 1941, 1948, 1973 | [21] | |||||
| Fine Arts Research | Also won in 1945 | [22] | ||||
| 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 | [23] | ||||
| Also won in 1941 | ||||||
| French Literature | [24] | |||||
| General Nonfiction | Also won in 1939, 1940 | [25] | ||||
| History of bigotry in the United States | Also won in 1941 | [26] | ||||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | New England acquaintance with German thought and literature during the 17th and 18th centuries | |||||
| History of Science and Technology | Also won in 1949 | |||||
| Iberian & Latin American History | History of the democratic tradition of Spain | Also won in 1941 | ||||
| Linguistics | Linguistic experiences and behavior of Norwegian immigrants in the United States, with special reference to the historical, social, and cultural processes of immigrant life | [27] | ||||
| Literary Criticism | Evaluation of the 1920s in America through certain key writers of the period | |||||
| [28] | ||||||
| Medieval Literature | ||||||
| Music Research | Also won in 1943 | |||||
| Renaissance History | Also won in 1973 | |||||
| History of the English Renaissance and Anglo-Italian relations in the last half of the 15th century | ||||||
| Edition of Erasmus' Colloquia famiiliaria | Also won in 1954, 1955, 1968 | [29] | ||||
| Philosophy | [30] | |||||
| General theory of signs | [31] | |||||
| United States History | Political significance of American agriculture | |||||
| History of the Roosevelt family in America | Also won in 1943 | |||||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Physics of ice, particularly glacial ice | ||||
| Biology | Also won in 1954 | |||||
| Also won in 1941 | [32] | |||||
| Mathematics | Mathematical logic | [33] | ||||
| Also won in 1941, 1955 | ||||||
| Medicine and Health | Comparision of the higher nervous activity of dogs, cats, and rats, as revealed by the experimental method of conditioned reflexes | [34] | ||||
| Physiology of reproduction | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | [35] | |||||
| Synthesis of cytology and the genetics of plants, animals, and man | ||||||
| Also won in 1963 | ||||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Also won in 1941 | |||||
| American weasel | ||||||
| Development of structure and function in the central nervous system of fish | Also won in 1952 | [36] | ||||
| Physics | Cosmic rays | Also won in 1941 | [37] | |||
| Plant Science | Octological status of the lake forests of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Ontario | Also won in 1956 | ||||
| Determination of the area in which corn originated | Also won in 1946 | |||||
| Respiratory enzymes of higher plants | [38] | |||||
| Chinese bamboos | Also won in 1943 | |||||
| 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 | ||||||
| Mycological flora of sub-tropical America | Also won in 1952 | |||||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Functional adaptations in the human skeleton based on Hawaiian skeletal materials | [39] | |||
| Cultures of four related Apache tribes | ||||||
| Economics | Also won in 1941 | |||||
| Cyclical fluctuations in income and investment | ||||||
| Political Science | Effects of wartime social, economic, and political changes on the public personnel of Canada | Also won in 1947 | [40] | |||
| Comparative study of procedure to enforce constitutional guarantees | ||||||
| Psychology | Applications of principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysis | Also won in 1941 | [41] | |||
| Psychology of color vision | ||||||
| Psychology of language | [42] |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Also won in 1941 | [43] | ||||
| Music Composition | Composition | Also won in 1946, 1969 | [44] | ||||
| Humanities | Biography | Sepúlveda College; Institute of Secondary Education (Havana) | Also won in 1943 | [45] | |||
| General Nonfiction | [46] [47] | ||||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | History of Mexican thought | [48] | |||||
| Philosophy | National Institute of Secondary Education; Popular Library of Paraná | Influence of phenomenology on contemporary North American philosophy | [49] | ||||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | General theory of orbits | Also won in 1943 | [50] | |||
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Statistical mechanics, with special reference to its application to astrophysics | Also won in 1945 | [51] | ||||
| Medicine and Health | Also won in 1941 | [52] | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | National School of Biological Sciences | Studies in Boston | Also won in 1941 | [53] | |||
| Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) | Vitamin chemistry | [54] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Biological control of insect pests | Also won in 1943 | [55] | ||||
| Also won in 1943 | [56] | ||||||
| Taxonomic studies of the Mallophaga of mammals | Also won in 1943 | [57] | |||||
| Physics | Correlation of high energy cosmic rays and atmospheric neutrons | [58] | |||||
| Plant Science | [59] | ||||||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | National Museum (Mexico) | Pre-Hispanic connections between the Indigenous cultures of Mexico and the Southeast and Southwest United States | [60] |