Richard M Morse Author & Editor

Richard M. Morse (1922 - 2001) was a Latin Americanist scholar and professor at Columbia University, University of Puerto Rico, Yale University, Stanford University and the Wilson Center in Washington DC. He was among the first academics in the United States to offer a nontraditional analysis of Latin America by suggesting that English-speaking North America had much to learn from the cultures of Spanish-, Portuguese- and French-speaking countries of the South. His many books include New World Soundings: Culture and Ideology in the Americas, also published by Johns Hopkins. In 1993, Morse was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross (Ordem do Cruzeiro do Sul) for contributions to Brazilian culture, the nation's highest honor for non-Brazilians.