Fourteen faculty members will receive Guggenheim fellowships next year. Most will spend the year writing or researching.

Harvard winners include John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History: William A. Graham Jr. '70, associate professor of Islamic Religion: Stanley J. Tambiah, professor of Anthropology: Robert P. Bergman, associate professor of Fine Arts: David Dressler, lecturer on Biochemistry and Biology: Melvin Joel Konner, associate professor of Biological Anthropology: Joel Porte. professor of English and American Literature: Raymond Siever, professor of Geology; Paul Starr, assistant professor of Sociology: Tison Street, associate professor of Music; and Ernest E. Williams, professor of Biology.

Other winners are Alvin E. Davis III, assistant professor of Pediatrics: Charles Donohue Jr. '65, professor of Law: and A. Witters, assistant professor of Medicine.

Fellows will spend the year working on a project that the selection committee--seven professors from different universities--finds them especially suited for, a spokesman for the foundation said yesterday.

Most fellows spend the year writing books. Womack said yesterday he finds it impossible to teach and write at the same time.

A committee of seven professors from universities throughout the country chose the fllows from 3107 applications. Gordon N. Ray '38, president of the Guggenheim Foundation, said yesterday.

The University of California at Berkeley, with 16 winners, is the only institution with more fellows than Harvard.

Altogether, the foundation awarded almost $5.1 million to 288 scholars, scientists and artists. Solomon Guggenheim established the fellowship 57 years ago in memory of his son, John Simon Guggenheim.

The average fellowship grant is $16,000, and recipients may not accept other grants without permission, the spokesman said.