Three hundred and twelve scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1964. More than $1,882,000 was disbursed.[1] [2]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Choreography | Also won in 1967 | [3] | ||
| Drama and Performing Arts | Writing | |||||
| Fiction | Writing | Also won in 1975 | ||||
| Kenyon Review | ||||||
| [4] | ||||||
| [5] | ||||||
| Fine Arts | Painting | [6] | ||||
| Sculpture | [7] | |||||
| Sculpture | [8] | |||||
| [9] | ||||||
| Painting | ||||||
| Sculpture | ||||||
| Printmaking | [10] | |||||
| Sculpture | ||||||
| Sculpture | ||||||
| Painting | ||||||
| Painting | ||||||
| Also won in 1958, 1969 | [11] | |||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1957 | ||||
| Also won in 1939, 1942 | [12] | |||||
| Also won in 1968 | [13] | |||||
| Also won in 1967 | ||||||
| Also won in 1963 | [14] | |||||
| Broadcast Music, Inc. (consultant) | [15] | |||||
| Also won in 1972 | ||||||
| Also won in 1956, 1958 | ||||||
| Also won in 1960 | [16] | |||||
| Also won in 1971 | ||||||
| [17] | ||||||
| Also won in 1963 | ||||||
| Photography | Context of contemporary affluence | [18] | ||||
| Prehistoric dwelling sites in the American Southwest | ||||||
| Human condition in the United States | Also won in 1963 | |||||
| American life | Also won in 1969, 1978 | |||||
| Poetry | Writing | Also won in 1972 | ||||
| Also won in 1958 | [19] | |||||
| Also won in 1971 | [20] | |||||
| [21] | ||||||
| Also won in 1978 | ||||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Also won in 1967 | ||||
| Critical study of Mark Twain, emphasizing the "despair group" of his writings | Also won in 1976 | |||||
| Also won in 1960 | ||||||
| American comic novel from 1945 to present | ||||||
| Critical history of American poetry | Also won in 1971 | [22] | ||||
| American genre of international fiction, that is, of fiction dealing with confrontation between Americans and Europeans | ||||||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | Studies in the development of Kentucky architecture | Also won in 1953 | [23] | |||
| National policies for urban and regional planning in developing countries | ||||||
| Nonformal, nonclassified architecture with particular reference to communal art | Also won in 1963, 1971 | [24] [25] | ||||
| Also won in 1967 | [26] | |||||
| Bibliography | Libraries of Kansas | Organization of the book trade and the book distribution abroad | [27] | |||
| Biography | American thought | Also won in 1932, 1935 | ||||
| British History | Also won in 1961, 1971 | [28] | ||||
| British political thought in the 20th century | ||||||
| Also won in 1981 | ||||||
| Also won in 1991 | ||||||
| Classics | ||||||
| The Odyssey | ||||||
| Compilation of a modern Greek-English dictionary | Also won in 1957 | [29] [30] | ||||
| East Asian Studies | ||||||
| Psychological novel in Japan since 1900 | ||||||
| Economic History | History of Japanese corporate societies | |||||
| English Literature | Editing of three major novels by Henry Fielding -- Joseph Andrews; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; and Amelia | [31] | ||||
| Also won in 1981 | [32] | |||||
| Biographical dictionary of stage performers in London, 1669-1800 | ||||||
| Edition of the 66 notebooks used by James Joyce in writing Finnegans Wake | Also won in 1966 | |||||
| Work on his book Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience (pub. 1970) | [33] | |||||
| Shakespeare and the natural history of his time | [34] | |||||
| Idea of modernism in European and American literature during the last hundred years | Also won in 1971 | |||||
| [35] | ||||||
| English tragedy and intellectual history | [36] | |||||
| Also won in 1942, 1982 | ||||||
| Also won in 1973 | ||||||
| Development of Shakespeare's ethical view and artistic method | ||||||
| Keats, Wordsworth, and English romanticism | ||||||
| Also won in 1975 | ||||||
| Film, Video, and Radio Studies | Relationship of film to other arts and other popular media | |||||
| Fine Arts Research | ||||||
| [37] | ||||||
New York University
| ||||||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Uses of oral tradition to the historian | Also won in 1949, 1971 | ||||
| French Literature | [38] | |||||
| Prince Charles de Ligne and his works | ||||||
| [39] | ||||||
| General Nonfiction | Book publishing in the United States | |||||
| Natural history of the St. Lawrence maritime region | ||||||
| German and East European History | [40] | |||||
| [41] | ||||||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | ||||||
| Booktrade in contemporary Sweden | Also won in 1957 | [42] [43] | ||||
| Romanticism in German literature and music, 1780-1840 | ||||||
| Also won in 1968 | ||||||
| History of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Also won in 1958 | [44] | |||||
| Work on a book concerning people of the 19th and early 20th centuries to tried to cope with the problems and ageing and death | [45] | |||||
| Transit of technology to the United States in the period 1783 to 1812 | [46] | |||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | ||||||
| Intellectual and Cultural History | ||||||
| Italian Literature | [47] | |||||
| Latin American Literature | Contemporary Spanish-American literature in relation to its cultural environment | Also won in 1947 | ||||
| [48] | ||||||
| Linguistics | ||||||
| Language limit problem | Also won in 1949 | |||||
| Generative morphophonemic analysis of literary Hebrew with primary emphasis on the verbal system | ||||||
| Slavic linguistics | ||||||
| Literary Criticism | Also won in 1975 | [49] | ||||
| General theory of textual interpretation | ||||||
| Also won in 1979 | ||||||
| Syntactic foundations of literary style | ||||||
| Also won in 1960 | ||||||
| Also won in 1960 | ||||||
| Medieval History | [50] | |||||
| Washington University in St. Louis | [51] | |||||
| Medieval Literature | Problems of medieval narrative | Also won in 1949 | ||||
| Edition of Stephen Scrope's Epistle of Othea | Also won in 1976 | |||||
| Washington University in St. Louis | [52] | |||||
| Literary theory during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries | ||||||
| Music Research | Background of the classical symphony | |||||
| Near Eastern Studies | [53] | |||||
| Also won in 1966 | ||||||
| Philosophy | ||||||
| [54] | ||||||
| Also won in 1977 | ||||||
| Religion | English Christian churches of the 19th century | |||||
| Horton Davies | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Critical reassessment of theological language | ||||||
| Growth and development of the so-called Gospel tradition in second century | ||||||
| Renaissance History | ||||||
| Intellectual and social history of Germany and the 16th century | Also won in 1972 | |||||
| Russian History | ||||||
| [55] | ||||||
| [56] | ||||||
| Impact of Eastern European religious movements in the 17th and 18th centuries and how they tied in with the rise of capitalism in Russia in the 19th century | [57] | |||||
| Slavic Literature | Also won in 1957, 1976 | |||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | [58] | |||||
| Castilian mind in literature from Cantar de mio Cid to Calderón | ||||||
| Lope de Vega's prose | Also won in 1950 | |||||
| [59] | ||||||
| Theatre Arts | ||||||
| Postwar theater in Europe and the United States | ||||||
| Music of the English Court masque in the early 17th century | ||||||
| United States History | Johns Hopkins University | Also won in 1985 | [60] [61] | |||
| Work on his book The Agricultural Frontier, 1865-1890 | [62] | |||||
| Impact of the American Civil War on business organization and leadership | ||||||
| British mining investments at the turn of the century | Also won in 1957 | |||||
| Changing concepts of liberty in early America | ||||||
| Life of Warren G. Harding in relation to his time | Also won in 1965 | |||||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | [63] | ||||
| Also won in 1968 | ||||||
| Oscillations of thin elastic shells | ||||||
| Sources of radio waves | ||||||
| [64] [65] | ||||||
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Telescopic observations of the emission component of an ionized calcium line in cool stars | |||||
| [66] [67] | ||||||
| Chemistry | [68] | |||||
| Electron scattering from atoms and molecules | [69] | |||||
| Metamorphism of rocks in geothermal areas | ||||||
| Also won in 1950 | ||||||
| Relation of the structure and biosynthesis of natural products to the phylogeny of the plant families from which they derive | ||||||
| Nuclear fission of elements in the vicinity of gold at moderate excitation energies | Also won in 1973 | |||||
| [70] | ||||||
| Polymer-solvent interactions using synthetic polypeptides | ||||||
| Electron spin resonance and self-consistent molecular orbital treatment of charge-transfer complexes | ||||||
| Chemical research laboratory visits | Also won in 1973 | |||||
| [71] | ||||||
| Computer Science | Development of a theory of mechanisms that are part determinate and part stochastic, and the application of this theory to systems, especially the cerebral, that have distributed memory | [72] [73] | ||||
| Earth Science | ||||||
| [74] | ||||||
| Also won in 1972 | [75] | |||||
| Technical methods for the investigation of living invertebrates in use at the principal marine stations in Europe and the United States | [76] | |||||
| [77] [78] | ||||||
| [79] | ||||||
| Engineering | [80] | |||||
| [81] | ||||||
| Process dynamics and control as applied to metallurgical systems | ||||||
| Fundamental characteristics of energy transfer by radiation in conjugation with conduction and convection | ||||||
| Aspects of reactor behavior | ||||||
| Interaction between point defects and moving dislocations in anisotropic metal crystals | ||||||
| Mathematics | Non-linear oscillations in fluid motions | |||||
| Also won in 1975 | [82] | |||||
| Theory of functions on symmetric spaces | ||||||
| Also won in 1973 | ||||||
| Medicine and Health | Immunological investigations related to human disease | |||||
| Interrelationships of metabolism, physical environment, physical work, and nutritional stress | ||||||
| [83] | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Extension of population genetics theory | [84] | ||||
| Manner in which energy is supplied for active transport and protein synthesis by mucosal cells of the small intestine | ||||||
| Biochemical aspects of the action of nerve growth factors isolated from Sarcoma 180 tumor, snake venom, and mouse salivary glands | ||||||
| [85] | ||||||
| Genetic mechanisms at the molecular level, with particular reference to mutation and recombination in viruses | ||||||
| Also won in 1972 | ||||||
| Phage genetics | ||||||
| Mechanism whereby estrogen induces synthesis of ribonucleic acids and proteins | ||||||
| Biological synthesis of complex carbohydrates | ||||||
| Quantitative changes in maturation and proliferation of antibody-forming cells with and without exposure to radiation | ||||||
| Human biochemical genetics and molecular biology | Also won in 1974 | |||||
| Microorganisms that form nitrate nitrogen | [86] | |||||
| Catalytic action of proteolytic enzymes | ||||||
| Biogeochemical studies | [87] | |||||
| Also won in 1971 | ||||||
| Jarrah Forest pandemics | [88] | |||||
| Neuroscience | Photoreceptor systems in Turbellarians in terms of fine structure and possible mechanism | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | [89] | |||||
| Central and peripheral nervous system of Arthropoda using combined electrophysiological, hostological, and behavioral techniques | [90] | |||||
| Also won in 1972 | [91] | |||||
| Alpine lakes and their contents | ||||||
| Also won in 1967 | [92] | |||||
| Field study of East African monkeys | ||||||
| Climatic factors in control of insects | ||||||
| [93] | ||||||
| Adaptive significance and relationships of mating systems and sexual dimorphism in birds | ||||||
| Physics | [94] | |||||
| Nuclear scattering and reaction theory | ||||||
| [95] | ||||||
| High energy particles | ||||||
| Theory of nuclear reactions and of experimental techniques for the measurement of the magnetic moments of nuclear excited states | Also won in 1971 | |||||
| Current nucleon models | ||||||
| Solid-state and low temperature physics | ||||||
| [96] | ||||||
| [97] | ||||||
| Determination of spins and parities of deformed nuclei | Also won in 1955, 1956 | [98] | ||||
| Plant Sciences | Effects of histones in the modification of nuclear function | |||||
| Morphological and evolutionary investigations of the Cycadeoideas | ||||||
| Also won in 1966 | [99] | |||||
| [100] | ||||||
| Genetic studies of plant parasite interactions | ||||||
| Parasitic flowering plant study | ||||||
| Plant growth regulators | ||||||
| Statistics | Monograph on planning of observational studies for the use of research workers in the social sciences, medicine, and public health | |||||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | [101] | ||||
| Economics | [102] | |||||
| Education | ||||||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | Pollen and spores in deep sea sediments of the Argentine Basin and the adjacent sub-Antarctic region for the purpose of interpreting vegetational and climatic changes during the ice ages | [103] | ||||
| Also won in 1977 | ||||||
| Law | Also won in 1975 | |||||
| Political Science | ||||||
| Federal-state-local relations in the United States before 1913 | Also won in 1980 | |||||
| West African politics | ||||||
| Also won in 1987 | ||||||
| Parliament and party in Western Europe | ||||||
| Role of bureaucracy in advanced and developing countries | ||||||
| Political leadership | ||||||
| Psychology | [104] | |||||
| Language and perception | [105] | |||||
| Sociology | ||||||
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | [106] [107] | ||||
| Fine Arts | [108] | |||||
| Also won in 1965 | [109] | |||||
| Also won in 1969, 1979 | [110] | |||||
| Printmaking | Also won in 1943, 1944, 1945, 1953 | [111] [112] | ||||
| [113] | ||||||
| Humanities | Music Research | Also won in 1977 | [114] | |||
| Philosophy | [115] [116] | |||||
| [117] | ||||||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | [118] | ||||
| Mathematics | [119] | |||||
| Medicine and Health | Also won in 1965 | [120] | ||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Also won in 1963 | [121] | ||||
| Ministry of Health | [122] | |||||
| Instituto Miguel Lillo | [123] | |||||
| Neuroscience | Also won in 1962, 1963 | [124] | ||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Also won in 1957 | [125] | ||||
| [126] | ||||||
| [127] | ||||||
| Plant Sciences | [128] | |||||
| Also won in 1966 | [129] | |||||
| Also won in 1965 | [130] | |||||
| [131] | ||||||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | [132] | ||||
| Also won in 1952 | [133] | |||||
| Josefina del Napo Mission | [134] | |||||
| Sociology | [135] |