Walter Rice Sharp
American political scientist
Walter Rice Sharp (January 25, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American political scientist.
He was born on January 25, 1896. [1] [2] Sharp attended Wabash College . Upon graduation, he served in the United States military as an infantry captain. After the end of World War I , Sharp enrolled at Yale University . Further graduate study at the University of Bordeaux in France was funded by the American Field Service Fellowship awarded in 1920. Sharp received a doctorate in law in 1922, and returned to the United States . [3] He taught at Washington and Lee University from 1923 to 1924, [2] then joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty for fifteen years. [3] Sharp was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1939. [2] While a professor at City College of New York , Sharp served as an adviser to the United Nations , working successively with the Food and Agriculture Organization , the World Health Organization , and UNESCO . Sharp ended his career with another fifteen years on the faculty of Yale University , and retired in 1964. He died on March 27, 1977, in Palo Alto, California . [3] [4]
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives holds a collection of Sharp's papers. [5]
References
- ↑ "Sharp, Walter Rice, 1896-1977" . SNAC . Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
- 1 2 3 "Walter R. Sharp" . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
- 1 2 3 Westerfield, H. Bradford (1977). "Walter Rice Sharp" . PS . 10 (4): 521–522. doi : 10.1017/S1049096500028729 .
- ↑ "Sharp, Walter Rice" . American Field Service Archive . Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
- ↑ "Overview of the Walter Rice Sharp papers" . Hoover Institution Library and Archives . Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
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