Awards for excellence in the Humanities and Fine Arts
Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), medievalist and biographer, graduated from Radcliffe College. She received her A.B. (1892), A.M. (1894), and was one of the first to receive the Ph.D (1902). Among her publications was Elizabeth Cary Agassiz: A Biography (1919), and a number of articles about, and editions of, Arthurian mythology. She taught school (1889-1904) and edited the Radcliffe war reports in the Radcliffe Quarterly, 1917-1919, including a report on the war efforts of every alumna. She settled in Paris in 1922 with her brother James M. Paton, returning to Boston in 1939.
These prizes were established by Lucy Allen Paton's will. One prize is awarded annually to that member of the senior class, and another to that member of the junior class, "who shall be deemed by [their] instructors to have manifested . . . the greatest promise in the Humanities or the Fine Arts, or who has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa because of . . . proficiency in these subjects."
Winners of the Lucy Allen Paton Prize
Class of 2025
Sophie Cooper, Winner from the Junior 24
Class of 2024
Trey Sullivan, Winner from the Junior 24
Blake Lopez, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2023
Isaac Heller, Winner from the Junior 24
Kiana Rawji, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2022
Lauren Grace Fadiman, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2021
Ciara Brynn Hervás, Winner from the Junior 24
Class of 2020
Caroline Sarence Engelmayer, Winner from the Junior 24
Lauren Delaney Spohn, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2019
Rebecca Elizabeth Jarvis, Winner from the Junior 24
Chloe Anne Brooks, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2018
Robert John Hopkirk, Winner from the Junior 24
Elizabeth Courtney Keto, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2017
Jonathan Paik Slifkin, Winner from the Junior 24
Serena Annabel Eggers, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2016
Colton Valentine, Winner from the Junior 24
Rivka Hyland, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2015
Gregory Donabet Kristof, Winner from the Junior 24
Eleanor Wilkinson, Winner from the Senior 48
Class of 2014
Julie Chen-wan Yen, Winner from the Senior 48
Rainer Adriene Crosett, Winner from the Junior 24
Class of 2013
Joshua Graham Wilson. Winner from the Senior 48.
Kevin M. Stone. Winner from the Junior 24.
Class of 2012
Isabel Middendorf Salovaara. Winner from the Senior 48.
Spencer Steinberg Vegosen. Winner from the Junior 24.
Class of 2011
Nicholas Jan Roth. Winner from the Senior 48.
Anne Lisbet Goetz. Winner from the Junior 24.
Class of 2010
Harold Yihao Wu. Winner from the Senior 48.