Martha Huggins, Roger Thayer Stone Professor of
Sociology, has published an expanded edition of Political Policing: the United States
and Latin America (Duke 1998) in Brazil as Policía e Política: Relacoes Estados
Unidos/America Latina (Cortez 1998). The latter has been covered extensively in the
Brazilian press, including receiving four pages in Folia de Sao Paulo and articles
in the Federal Capital's Jornal da Brasília and in Rio de Janiero's O
Globo newspapers. Two five-minute interviews with Huggins were shown nationally on
Brazil's Globo television station. Huggins also was interviewed about Polícia e
Política on a national radio program in Brazil. There have been two televised debates
on her book. Argentina's progressive newsmagazine, Noticias, has carried an
article about Political Policing.
In September, Huggin's research for a new book, Tortured
Consciousness – about Brazilian torturers and murderers – was featured in a
Discovery Channel presentation of “The Roots of Evil,” a three-part documentary.
Huggins recently presented papers on Politcal Policing
and Tortured Consciousness at the Federal University of Rio de Janiero, the
University of Wisconsin, at international conferences in Montreal, Maputo, Mozambique, and
at meetings of the American Sociological Association and Latin American Studies
Association.