The History and Social Sciences Department recognized students’ outstanding research in U.S. History at the Bisbee Tea and Social Science Forum.
The Bisbee Prize was established to honor Ethan Wyatt Bisbee, a former history faculty member and department chair who retired in 1993 after 40 years of teaching. The Prize was endowed in 2005 through a gift by John Warren, formerly of the history department, and his wife, Laura Warren ’78, former head of Robbins House. Mr. Bisbee passed away in 2021. In 2023, the department added the Social Science Forum to recognize outstanding work in the social sciences.
View a gallery of photos from the May 20, 2025 event.
2025 Bisbee Prize Recipients
- Jack Bradner ’25—Lancing America’s Leviathan: African American Whalers and the Proliferation of Whale-Antislavery Iconography
- Ivan Chan ’27—Drawn in Labor, Built in Gold: San Francisco Chinatown’s Commodified Turn From Village to Tourism
- Pyae Phoo Khaing ’27—Between Two Worlds: Cultural Liminality and Political Advocacy of Zitkála-Šá
- Hugh Kramer ’27—Staging Their Rise through Society: Immigrants in American Vaudeville
- Gabrielle Mott ’25—From Talking Animals to Artillery: A Wartime History of Disney Studios
- Molly O’Brien ’26—The Teapot Dome Scandal
- Dilan Payne ’27—Staging Docility: Percussive Dance as Pro-Slavery Mythmaking
- Elizabeth Sim ’27—The Forgotten Irish Soldiers of the Civil War
- Stella Tjan ’27—Born to Be Bartered: The Role of the United States Government in Turning Guatemala’s Children into Cold War Currency
- Ben Wang ’27—Moral Witness in the Neoliberal Dawn: Religious Resistance, Labor Solidarity, and the Paradox of Deindustrialization in Youngstown, 1977-1979
- Joanna Zhang ’27—Banana Split, Sweet or Bitter: Chinese American Education and Identity in Tape v. Hurley (1885) and Beyond
2025 Social Science Forum Honorees
- Caroline Blake ’25 and Zidan Graham ’25—Boston’s Gang Assessment Database: The Accusations Upending the Lives of Immigrants
- Nick Chiasson ’25 and Adrienne Fung ’25—Hidden Spending: The Effects and Problems of Money in Politics
- Emilia Raviola ’26—Paid Parental Leave: A Comparison of Policies in Canada, Sweden, and The United States
