Walter Rice Sharp (January 25, 1896 – March 27, 1977) was an American political scientist.
Further graduate study at the University of Bordeaux in France was funded by the American Field Service Fellowship awarded in 1920.
[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.
[3][4] The Hoover Institution Library and Archives holds a collection of Sharp's papers.