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Dana Gardner Munro
1892–1990
A leading scholar of Latin America who also served as a U.S. diplomat, he wrote influential studies of Caribbean policy and helped shape international studies at Princeton. His career moved easily between scholarship, public service, and teaching.
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About the author
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1892, he became known as an American historian of Latin America as well as a diplomat. Princeton archival and program history materials describe him as a professor of history, a longtime Princeton faculty member, and later director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
His public service included work with the U.S. Department of State, and the Office of the Historian lists him as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Haiti from 1930 to 1932. He was especially respected for his expertise on U.S.–Latin American relations.
As an author, he is remembered for books including Intervention and Dollar Diplomacy in the Caribbean, 1900-1921 and The United States and the Caribbean Republics, 1921-1933. Princeton also credits his scholarship and dedication with helping lay the foundation for Latin American Studies there. He died in 1990.