Sarah Wambaugh
Sarah Wambaugh | |
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Born | March 6, 1882 |
Died | November 12, 1955 | (aged 73)
Education | Radcliffe College, A.B. (1902), A.M. (1917) |
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Sarah Wambaugh (March 6, 1882 – November 12, 1955) was an American political scientist.
Biography
She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of legal scholar Eugene Wambaugh. She earned an A.B. in 1902[1] and an A.M. in 1917 from Radcliffe College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she also later taught. She also carried out studies in England; in London and Oxford.
Wambaugh eventually became recognized as the world's leading authority on plebiscites.[2][3] Wambaugh had joined the membership of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in 1920.[4] She was an advisor to the Peruvian government for the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite (1925–26), to the Saar Plebiscite Commission (1934–35), to the American observers of the Greek national elections (1945–46) and to the U.N. Plebiscite Commission to Jammu and Kashmir (1949). During World War II she was a consultant to the director of the enemy branch of the Foreign Economic Administration.[5] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944.[6] She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 12, 1955.
Select publications
- A Monograph on Plebiscites: With a Collection of Official Documents, Oxford University Press (1920)
- Plebiscites Since the World War: With a Collection of Official Documents, University of California (1933)
- The Saar Plebiscite: With a Collection of Official Documents, Harvard University Press (1940)
References
- ^ Radcliffe College, Our Book (1902 yearbook): 33.
- ^ "Saar Umpires". TIME. 1934-05-14. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ Wernitznig, Dagmar (2022). "Contested Territories in the Short Twentieth Century: Sarah Wambaugh (1882–1955), Plebiscites, and Gender". Nationalities Papers. 50 (5): 983–1002. doi:10.1017/nps.2021.108. ISSN 0090-5992.
- ^ "Papers of Sarah Wambaugh, 1919-1948". Harvard University. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ^ "Wambaugh, Sarah, 1882-1956. Papers, 1902-1949: A Finding Aid". Harvard University Library. August 2005. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter W" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
External links
- Sarah Wambaugh Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
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