Sarah Wambaugh

She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of legal scholar Eugene Wambaugh. She earned an A.B. in 1902Radcliffe College, [https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:427981485$37i Our Book] (1902 yearbook): 33. 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,754080,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101125052038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,754080,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = November 25, 2010 | title = Saar Umpires | publisher = TIME | author = | date = 1934-05-14 | accessdate = 2008-01-31}}{{Cite journal |last=Wernitznig |first=Dagmar |date=2022 |title=Contested Territories in the Short Twentieth Century: Sarah Wambaugh (1882–1955), Plebiscites, and Gender |journal=Nationalities Papers |volume=50 |issue=5 |pages=983–1002 |language=en |doi=10.1017/nps.2021.108 |issn=0090-5992|doi-access=free }} Wambaugh had joined the membership of the Secretariat of the League of Nations in 1920.{{cite web | url=https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/6092 | title=Papers of Sarah Wambaugh, 1919-1948 | publisher=Harvard University | accessdate=15 December 2023}} 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). She lectured briefly at Wellesley College and also taught at the Geneva Graduate Institute in 1935.{{Cite journal |last=Wernitznig |first=Dagmar |date=September 2022 |title=Contested Territories in the Short Twentieth Century: Sarah Wambaugh (1882–1955), Plebiscites, and Gender |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/contested-territories-in-the-short-twentieth-century-sarah-wambaugh-18821955-plebiscites-and-gender/266EDF9FAB51334DDD288CD7E18DAE1B |journal=Nationalities Papers |language=en |volume=50 |issue=5 |pages=983–1002 |doi=10.1017/nps.2021.108 |issn=0090-5992}} During World War II she was a consultant to the director of the enemy branch of the Foreign Economic Administration.{{cite web | url = http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=sch00997 | title = Wambaugh, Sarah, 1882-1956. Papers, 1902-1949: A Finding Aid | publisher = Harvard University Library | author = | date = August 2005 | accessdate = 2008-01-31}} She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter W|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=July 29, 2014}} She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 12, 1955.

• 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)

• [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00997 Sarah Wambaugh Papers.] [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

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