M. Margaret Ball

Mary Margaret Ball (August 29, 1909 – September 14, 1999) was an American political scientist. A 1949 Guggenheim Fellow, she was author of Post-War German-Austrian Relations, The Problem of Inter-American Organization (1944), International Relations (1956, with Hugh B. Killough), NATO and the European Union Movement (1959), The OAS in Transition (1969), and The 'Open' Commonwealth (1971). She was Ralph Emerson Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and later served as dean of Duke University Woman's College.

Biography Ball was born on August 29, 1909, in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Mary Elizabeth ( Messerly) and Jesse W. Ball. She was also a 1932-1933 Carnegie Fellow at University of Cologne, where she got a doctor juris in 1933. She was author of Post-War German-Austrian Relations (1937), The Problem of Inter-American Organization (1944), International Relations (1956, with Hugh B. Killough), NATO and the European Union Movement (1959), The OAS in Transition (1969), and The 'Open' Commonwealth (1971). She also worked at the United States Department of State as an international organization specialist in the 1940s, as well as an advisor at the United Nations Conference on International Organization,

Ball died on September 14, 1999, in Durham, North Carolina.