TPAR@ ` ΣTEXT ` ╓Wambaugh, Sarah1882╨1955political scientistBorn in Cincinnati on March 6, 1882, Sarah Wambaugh was the daughter of a lawyer who later taught at Harvard. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1902 and remained as an assistant in history and government while pursuing advanced studies in those fields until 1906. For a decade thereafter she worked with the Women╒s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston and took part in the woman suffrage movement. In 1916 she resumed her studies at Radcliffe, and in 1917 she was awarded an M.A. degree in international law and political science. In that year she secured a grant from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to finance a study of the theory, practice, and history of plebiscites, a field then new to systematic study. Wambaugh╒s Monograph on Plebiscites, With a Collection of Official Documents, first prepared for use at the Versailles peace conference of 1919, was published in 1920 and established its author as the leading authority in the field. In 1920╨1921, while studying at the London University School of Economics and at Oxford, she worked in the administrative commissions and minorities section of the League of Nations secretariat. She taught history at Wellesley College for a semester in 1921╨1922. Over the next several years she observed a plebiscite in Upper Silesia, advised the League of Nations on the problems of the Saar Basin and Danzig, and advised the Peruvian government on the Tacna╨Arica plebiscite. In 1927 she lectured at the Academy of International Law at The Hague. During 1934╨1935 Wambaugh helped plan and administer the Saar plebiscite, and in the latter year she lectured at the Institute for Advanced International Studies in Geneva. She served as an adviser to the United Nations mission observing Greek elections in 1945╨1946 and helped plan the Jammu and Kashmir plebiscites in India in 1949. She published La pratique des plÄbiscites internationaux, 1928, Plebiscites Since the World War, 1933, and The Saar Plebiscite, 1940, along with numerous articles, many of them promoting the cause of U.S. membership in the League of Nations and the dream of a ╥family of nations.╙ She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 12, 1955. Nstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ / !I 5¬ !I $ !I e !I . 5¬ / !I Ä !I ╕ !I └ !I ▀ !I δ !I ■ !I link `
