Prize Details

2026 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History Finalists

Lillian Tsay - "Sweetening the Empire: Sugar and Western-style Confectionery in Modern Japan and Taiwan" (Ph.D. 2025, Brown University; Advisor: Kerry Smith)

Yuanxie Shi - "Mao's Clever Hands: Export Lacemaking and the Socialist Flexibility in the Cold War, 1949-1980s" (Ph.D. 2025, University of Chicago; Advisor: Jacob Eyferth)

Cody Patton - "Nature's Brew: An Environmental History of the Modern American Brewing Industry" (Ph.D. 2023, The Ohio State University; Advisor: Bart Elmore)