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.
She graduated from Barnard College in 1952, then attended the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris as a Fulbright scholar.
[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 and was a mentor to Nancy Hafkin who brought the internet connectivity to Africa.
[5] In 1964, she wrote Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa,[6] which won the 1965 Herskovitz Prize.