One hundred twenty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1947.[1] A total of $310,000 was disbursed. The University of California received the highest number of fellowships given to a single institution.
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institution | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Choreographic pieces dealing with human values, particularly small group choreography on James Thurber's Fables for Our Time | [2] | |||
| Fiction | Writing | [3] | ||||
| Rome and a Villa (published 1952) | Also won in 1950 | [4] | ||||
| Writing | [5] | |||||
| Also won in 1946 | ||||||
| [6] | ||||||
| Also won in 1939 | [7] | |||||
| Film | Also won in 1948 | [8] | ||||
| Fine Arts | Also won in 1945 | [9] | ||||
| Painting | [10] | |||||
| Also won in 1968 | [11] | |||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| Painting | ||||||
| Also won in 1949 | [12] | |||||
| Also won in 1945 | [13] | |||||
| Etching and drawing | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1945, 1949 | [14] | |||
| [15] | ||||||
| Also won in 1937 | [16] | |||||
| Also won in 1946 | [17] | |||||
| Also won in 1949 | ||||||
| Also won in 1946 | ||||||
| Also won in 1946 | [18] | |||||
| Photography | Also won in 1946 | [19] [20] | ||||
| Poetry | Writing | Also won in 1978 | [21] | |||
| Also won in 1946 | [22] [23] | |||||
| [24] | ||||||
| Also won in 1943 | ||||||
| Humanities | American Literature | |||||
| The Age of Paradox: A Biography of England 1841-1851 (published 1952) | ||||||
| Also won in 1940, 1958, 1969 | ||||||
| Also won in 1959 | [25] | |||||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | [26] | |||||
| Historical development of railroad stations as examples of architectural solutions to meet new needs | [27] | |||||
| Biography | Anne Newport Royall and her contribution to the American mind | [28] | ||||
| Eli Whitney and the impact of his inventive and business ability in the history of the United States | Also won in 1949 | [29] | ||||
| British History | Also won in 1950, 1956 | [30] | ||||
| Change in the structure of 16th-century European society | Also won in 1942, 1979 | [31] | ||||
| Also won in 1941, 1946 | [32] | |||||
| Classics | [33] | |||||
| [34] | ||||||
| English Literature | Social change in England, 1789-1806, as it influenced and was influenced by the writers of the time | [35] | ||||
| Manuscript of miscellanies or commonplace books of English verse from 1550 to 1700 contained in the principal libraries and private collections in the United States | ||||||
| Dr. Johnson and the English Law (published 1951) | [36] | |||||
| Also won in 1957 | [37] | |||||
| Fine Arts Research | Excavations in the Basilica of Saint-Denis to gather evidence for a book on the Abbey of Saint-Denis | |||||
| San Francisco Chronicle | [38] | |||||
| [39] | ||||||
| Also won in 1960, 1967 | ||||||
| [40] | ||||||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | [41] | |||||
| French History | Also won in 1949 | [42] | ||||
| French Literature | Critical and interpretive study of Stéphane Mallarmé's poetry | Also won in 1961 | ||||
| French speech, its intonations and rhythm | ||||||
| General Nonfiction | Métis Nation of northwestern United States and western Canada | Also won in 1948 | ||||
| The general ideas on which democracy depends and the setting and atmosphere of democracy today as they appear to the private citizen | [43] | |||||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | [44] | |||||
| History of Science and Technology | Also won in 1946 | [45] | ||||
| Latin American Literature | Spanish American drama and its relation to other literature | Also won in 1964 | ||||
| History of the empire of Montezuma | Also won in 1946 | [46] | ||||
| Linguistics | Language, traditional history, and folklore of Ethiopia | Also won in 1946 | [47] [48] | |||
| Literary Criticism | Herman Melville's thought and the allegory and symbols he used to express his thought | Also won in 1962 | ||||
| Critical essays on English and American subjects | Also won in 1975 | |||||
| Medieval Literature | ||||||
| Also won in 1946, 1952 | [49] | |||||
| Music Research | Secular choral music of Italy in the late 15th century | [50] | ||||
| [51] | ||||||
| Historical and stylistic study of music of 18th-century ballad operas in England and the United States | Also won in 1957 | |||||
| Philosophy | Philosophical and methodological problems of psychology | |||||
| [52] | ||||||
| [53] | ||||||
| Theory of value based on aesthetics | [54] | |||||
| [55] | ||||||
| Photography Studies | The History of Photography, 1839 to the Present (published 1948) | Also won in 1975 | [56] | |||
| United States History | Edition of Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book | [57] | ||||
| British Free Ports policy and the American West Indian Interest, 1765-1815 | [58] | |||||
| Also won in 1961, 1982 | [59] | |||||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Science | Also won in 1945 | [60] | |||
| Chemistry | Polymerization of acetylenes | |||||
| [61] | ||||||
| Molecular structure | ||||||
| Electronic structure of metals | [62] | |||||
| Earth Science | Paleobotanical study of post-glacial forest migrations and climate in western Canada, based on analyses of fossil pollen gathered in peat bogs in the area | Also won in 1943 | [63] | |||
| British Columbia Department of Mines | Ores and rocks in British Columbia Coast mountain ranges | [64] | ||||
| Mathematics | ||||||
| [65] [66] | ||||||
| Borderline between algebra and algebraic tophography | Also won in 1982 | [67] | ||||
| Also won in 1945 | [68] | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Also won in 1945 | [69] [70] | ||||
| [71] | ||||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ground beetles, with an emphasis on the Carabidae family | Also won in 1956 | [72] | |||
| Banded birds and their life expectancy in the wild, their turnover population in nature and other facts of value to conservationists | Also won in 1944 | [73] | ||||
| Also won in 1952, 1956 | ||||||
| [74] | ||||||
| Biochemical and physical study of the exoskeleton of the Mormon cricket, from the standpoint of insect control | [75] [76] | |||||
| [77] | ||||||
| Physics | Also won in 1932, 1958 | |||||
| Plant Science | Conditions influencing gene mutation | [78] | ||||
| Problems of orchid breeding | [79] | |||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Also won in 1938 | [80] [81] | |||
| Music in primitive cultures | Also won in 1935 | |||||
| Nambé Indian Pueblo in New Mexico | Also won in 1960 | |||||
| Also won in 1946 | ||||||
| American Indian languages | [82] | |||||
| "Native American and Eskimo" unwritten literature | ||||||
| Economics | [83] | |||||
| [84] | ||||||
| Also won in 1951 | ||||||
| Political Science | Effects of the wartime social, economic, and political change on the public personnel of Canada | Also won in 1942 | [85] | |||
| Problems of national strategic intelligence operations | [86] | |||||
| Psychology | Also won in 1951 | |||||
| Comparative study of cultural and personality data dealing with "Navajo Indians, Eskimos, and Japanese" | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| [87] |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institution | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | [88] | ||||
| [89] | ||||||
| Drawing | [90] | |||||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Economic ideas of Spanish America during the 18th century | [91] | |||
| Literary Criticism | Also won in 1960 | [92] | ||||
| Philosophy | Influence of philosophic ideas in Spanish America, especially during the wars of independence | |||||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | [93] | ||||
| Earth Science | Instituto Geofísico de los Andes Colombianos | [94] | ||||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | Also won in 1945 | [95] | ||||
| Mathematics | [96] | |||||
| Medicine and Health | Also won in 1941 | [97] | ||||
| Instituto de Medicina Experimental | [98] | |||||
| Also won in 1945 | [99] | |||||
| Universidad Nacional de Asunción Medical School | [100] | |||||
| Also won in 1948 | [101] | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | [102] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | [103] | |||||
| Also won in 1952 | [104] | |||||
| Also won in 1949 | [105] | |||||
| Plant Science | Instituto Miguel Lillo | [106] | ||||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | [107] | ||||
| Economics | Also won in 1940 | [108] |