{{short description|American writer}} {{Infobox person | name = Eleanor Bisbee | image = EleanorBisbee1914.png | alt = Eleanor Bisbee, a young white woman, from a 1914 publication | caption = Eleanor Bisbee, from a 1914 newspaper | birth_name = | birth_date = July 22, 1893 | birth_place = Beverly, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{death-date and age|April 18, 1956|July 22, 1893}} | death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Writer, editor, Universalist minister, philosopher, college professor | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''The New Turks: Pioneers of the Republic, 1920-1950'' (1951) | spouse(s) = | relatives = }}
'''Eleanor Bisbee''' (July 22, 1893 – April 18, 1956) was an American journalist, Universalist minister, philosopher, and college professor, best known for her works on Turkish history, politics, and culture.
==Early life and education== Bisbee was born in Beverly, New Jersey<ref name=":0" /> (one source says she was born in Ocean City, New Jersey),<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=1956-04-20 |title=Hoover Library to receive Dr. Bisbee's Turkey writings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune-hoover-libra/167043844/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Peninsula Times Tribune |pages=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> the daughter of Frederick A. Bisbee and Martha Gally Bisbee. Her father was a Universalist minister and editor of ''The Universalist Leader''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-Jitde4-IgcC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Eleanor%20Bisbee&pg=RA20-PA6#v=onepage&q=Eleanor%20Bisbee&f=false "The Early Life of Frederick A. Bisbee"] and "Services at Philadelphia" ''The Universalist Leader'' 26(48)(December 1, 1923): 6-12.</ref> She graduated from Jackson College for Women (part of Tufts University) in 1915, and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree in 1917; she and her brother John were the only Theology School graduates at Tufts that year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1917-06-19 |title=Tufts College Awards 277 Degrees; Brother and Sister Get the Only Theology Honors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-tufts-college-awards-27/167044308/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Boston Globe |pages=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, with a dissertation titled "Instrumentalism in Plato's philosophy: A functional theory of ideas and of God" (1929).
In college Bisbee was president of the Christian Guild,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1914-05-28 |title=Arlington Girl Chosen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-arlington-girl-chosen/167045476/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Boston Globe |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> a tennis champion and a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1914-10-03 |title=Their Names First to be Inscribed on Jackson College Tennis Trophy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-their-names-first-to-be/167040463/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Boston Globe |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> ==Career== Between college and graduate school, Bisbee was a Universalist minister<ref>{{Cite news |date=1916-06-11 |title=Woman Preacher from Boston |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-woman-preacher-f/167045229/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=Chattanooga Daily Times |pages=20 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> working in Minnesota and Ohio,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1920-11-13 |title=Parson-Editor to Live in Miami (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-herald-parson-editor-to-live-i/167042537/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Miami Herald |pages=16 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and a journalist and newspaper editor in Miami, Florida.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Isidor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivGFwmi5IfMC&dq=Eleanor+Bisbee&pg=PA154 |title=Historical Sketches and Sidelights of Miami, Florida |date=1925 |publisher=Priv. Print. |pages=154 |language=en}}</ref> After completing her doctoral studies, she was a professor of philosophy and civilization at the University of Cincinnati from 1930 to 1931,<ref name=":0" /> and a professor of philosophy at Robert College in Istanbul from 1936 until 1942.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=1952-01-21 |title=Dr. Eleanor Bisbee to give talk at Menlo Park BPWC |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune-dr-eleanor/167044565/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Peninsula Times Tribune |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Weiss |first=Anne |date=1943-02-03 |title=Turkey's Position in World Crisis Will Be Analyzed At Club Session |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-turkeys-position-i/167044800/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |pages=21 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
On her return to the United States, Bisbee concentrated on writing about Turkey, especially her book ''The New Turks: Pioneers of the Republic, 1920-1950'' (1951).<ref name=":2" /> Her book was described as a "lively and sympathetic book to explain the Turkish people and to describe their recent achievements."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fitzsimons |first=M. A. |date=1951-07-01 |title=Books: New Freedom Moves Turkey into 20th Century |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-herald-books-new-freedom-moves-t/167045768/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=Times Herald |pages=32 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Bisbee was a columnist at the ''San Jose Mercury'' in her later years, and worked at the Hoover Institution Library, organizing the Turkish section.<ref name=":1" /> She spoke about the Middle East before community and campus audiences.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> ==Publications== * "The A B C and X Y Z of Tennis" (1921)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bisbee |first=Eleanor |date=1921-12-31 |title=The A B C and X Y Z of Tennis |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-miami-news-the-a-b-c-and-x-y-z-of-te/167046265/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=The Miami News |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * "The Parmenides in the Light of the Propositional Function" (1933)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bisbee |first=Eleanor |date=1933 |title=The Parmenides in the Light of the Propositional Function |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2180009 |journal=The Philosophical Review |volume=42 |issue=6 |pages=612–617 |doi=10.2307/2180009 |jstor=2180009 |issn=0031-8108|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * "Confusion about exclusive and exceptive propositions" (1937)<ref>Bisbee, Eleanor. "Confusion about exclusive and exceptive propositions" ''The philosophical review'' vol. 46 (1937), pp. 85–88.</ref> * "Objectivity in the social sciences" (1937)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bisbee |first=Eleanor |date=July 1937 |title=Objectivity in the Social Sciences |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0031824800028683/type/journal_article |journal=Philosophy of Science |language=en |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=371–382 |doi=10.1086/286468 |issn=0031-8248|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''The People of Turkey'' (1946)<ref>Bisbee, Eleanor. ''The people of Turkey''. East and West Association, 1946.</ref> * "Test of Democracy in Turkey" (1950)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bisbee |first=Eleanor |date=1950 |title=Test of Democracy in Turkey |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4322164 |journal=Middle East Journal |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=170–182 |jstor=4322164 |issn=0026-3141}}</ref> * ''The New Turks: Pioneers of the Republic, 1920-1950'' (1951, republished 2016)<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Bisbee |first=Eleanor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oVArEAAAQBAJ |title=The New Turks: Pioneers of the Republic, 192-195 |date=2016-11-11 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-1-5128-1450-7 |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Bisbee died in 1956, in San Francisco, at the age of 62.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1956-04-20 |title=Dr. Eleanor Bisbee, Educator, Author Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/corpus-christi-caller-times-dr-eleanor/167045005/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |work=Corpus Christi Caller-Times |pages=28 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> There is a collection of her papers in the Hoover Institution Library and Archives.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Bisbee (Eleanor) papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8b69r9mt/dsc/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Online Archive of California}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}}
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