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 Nazism, Nazis in 1940. She graduated from Barnard College in 1952, then attended the Sciences Po, Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright Program, Fulbright scholar. In 1958, she received a doctorate in politics from University of Oxford, Oxford. 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. She was an advocate of Top-down and bottom-up design, ''bottom-up'' aid to farmers and villagers in the third world and was a mentor to Nancy Hafkin who brought the internet connectivity to Africa. Ruth married to Henry Morgenthau III, 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).Morgenthau Family Tree
; retrieved October 3, 2015 She died on November 4, 2006, aged 75, in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.

Awards

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

References

External links

Papers of Ruth S. Morgenthau, 1925-2006 (inclusive), 1963-2000 (bulk): A Finding Aid.Schlesinger Library
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgenthau, Ruth 1931 births 2006 deaths Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss Austrian emigrants to the United States American political consultants Barnard College alumni École nationale d'administration alumni Lehman family Morgenthau family, Ruth Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford ASA Best Book Prize winners