Prof. Huggins' book receives award

A book by Martha K. Huggins, Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology, Violence Workers: Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities (University of California Press, 2002, with co-authors, Mika Haritos Fatouros and Philip Zimbardo), has been awarded the "Best Book for 2002" prize by the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) and by the American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology (DIC).  Violence Workers was a finalist for the 2003 C. Wright Mills Award. Huggins has just published "Working Kids on Paulista Avenue" in the November issue of Childhood: An International Journal of Child Research. Her co-author was Sandra Rodrigues '00. Another article, "Women Studying Violent Male Institutions: Cross-Gendered Dynamics in Police Research on Secrecy and Danger," has been published in the Journal of Theoretical Criminology (August, 2003) with Marie-Louise Glebbeek, an anthropology colleague at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. This article is the basis for Huggins' edited book in progress: Women Researching in Male Spaces:  Danger, Secrecy, and Ethics. The University of Wisconsin's Women's Studies and Global Studies Programs will host a workshop in April for invited authors to discuss and prepare their articles for the edited volume. Huggins is to retire from Union in December and assume a position in Tulane University's Sociology Department, where she has been appointed the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations.