MARTHA K. HUGGINS, PH.D.
Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology

Martha Knisely Huggins, who received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, is Union's Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology. Huggins has been Visiting Professor in Brazil at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1975-1977; 1981), the Universidade de São Paulo (1991), the Universidade de Brasilia (1993), and in Osaka, Japan, Kansai Gaidai University.

Having conducted scholarly research in Brazil for twenty-five years, Huggins has produced numerous articles about crime, the police, and extra-legal violence and has written three books:  From Slavery to Vagrancy in Brazil: Crime and Social Control in the Third World (Rutgers, 1984), Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America (Praeger, 1991), and Political Policing: The United States and Latin America (Duke, 1998); in Brazil as Polícia e Política: Estados Unidos/America Latina (Cortez, 1998), Political Policing received national and international attention for its focus on CIA involvement with Latin American internal security, and was awarded two scholarly book prizes.

Huggins has completed an extensive interview study (with Mika Haritos-Fatouros and Philip Zimbardo) of Brazilian police torturers, funded by the Hamburger Stiftung zer Forderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur. This book, Violence Workers: Brazilian Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities, which is being reviewed for publication, to be completed in 2001, examines the social, political, and psychological roots of atrocity in Brazil.
E-Mail: hugginsm@union.edu
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Visit Martha Huggins new website on Brazil at: http://idol.union.edu/~micklasc/Brazil/