Ruth S. Morgenthau

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Ruth Schachter Morgenthau (January 26, 1931 – November 4, 2006), was a professor of international politics at Brandeis University and an advisor to President Jimmy Carter on rural development in poor countries.

Biography[]

She was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 26, 1931, as Ruth Schachter. Her parents, Osias Schachter and Mizia (Kramer) Schachter, owned a textile importing company until they fled from the Nazis in 1940. She graduated from Barnard College in 1952, then attended the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright scholar. In 1958, she received a doctorate in politics from Oxford.[citation needed]

She was a member of the United States Mission to the United Nations, and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Rhode Island.[1] She was an advocate of ''bottom-up'' aid to farmers and villagers in the third world.

She married to Henry Morgenthau in 1962. They had two sons: Henry (Ben) Morgenthau (born 1964) and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau (born 1966); and a daughter, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel (born 1963).[1][2][3]

She died on November 4, 2006, aged 75, in Boston, Massachusetts.[4]

Awards[]

In 1964, she wrote Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa,[5] which won the 1965 Herskovitz Prize.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Hevesi, Dennis (2006-11-12). "Ruth S. Morgenthau, 75, an Adviser to Carter, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  2. ^ Morgenthau Family Tree Archived 2015-12-20 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved October 3, 2015
  3. ^ New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Carlton Wessel, Sarah Morgenthau", nytimes.com, September 6, 1993.
  4. ^ Hevesi, Dennis (2006-11-12). "Ruth S. Morgenthau, 75, an Adviser to Carter". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  5. ^ Morgenthau, Ruth Schachter (1964). Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa (First ed.). Oxford University Press.
  6. ^ "Melville J. Herskovits Award Winners". African Studies Association.

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