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CURRICULUM VITAE

R. S. Rose (Robert Sterling Rose)

CITIZENSHIP: USA

ADDRESSES:

From July 2, 2024:

Praia de Botafogo 316 apto. 424

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22.250-040 Rio de Janeiro RJ - Brazil

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EDUCATION (professional):

Fil. dok. (Swedish Ph.D) in Sociology (Criminology minor) from the University of Stockholm.

M.S.Sc. in Sociology (Criminology minor) from the University of Stockholm. B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Long Beach. EDUCATION (languages):

Certificate in Portuguese from the Instituto Brasil-Estados Unidos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Certificate in Spanish from the Academia Hispano Americana, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Certificate in Swedish from the Institutet för engelska talande studenter, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

DISSERTATION TOPIC:

“An Outline of Fertility Control, Focusing on the Element of Abortion, in the Republic of Ireland to 1976,” unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Stockholm.

DISSERTATION ADVISER:

Professor Emeritus Knut Sveri former Chair of the Institute of Criminology and Vice Dean of the College of Law, University of Stockholm. GENERAL AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTEREST (alphabetical): Colonial Brazil, Death Squads in Brazil, Filinto Müller, Hélio Bicudo, Modern Brazilian History, Slavery in Brazil, The 1964-1985 Military Dictatorship, The Communist Revolution of 1935, The Vargas Years.

PUBLICATIONS (book projects underway):

“The Most Urgent of Questions: Brazil and the Twin Enemies” Following the failed Brazilian Communist Revolution of November 1935, the country’s de facto dictator, Getúlio Vargas, approved the sending of trusted functionaries 2

and others to Argentina, Chile, Uruguay,

Germany, Italy, and the USA. Their job

was to learn first hand what these nations

were doing to suppress communism. Vargas

did not invent this strategy. It had been

employed in dealing with the anarchist

movement earlier in the 20th Century.

Among other things, this work looks at some

of the antecedents and individuals involved

in the effort. In Portuguese, this important

project is called “O mais urgente de questiões: o Brasil e os inimigos gémeos.”

“My Report on the Death Squad” will be the first translation into English of the exposé by Hélio Pereira Bicudo, Meu depoimento sobre o Esquadrão da Morte. During Brazil’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, prosecutor Bicudo was appointed to investigate São Paulo’s extermination groups. His efforts were so embarrassing to the generals running the country that they removed him. The military claimed that Bicudo received large profits without paying any taxes on the sale of his book. This was untrue. The authorities even killed his dog as a warning to be quiet or else. The volume has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Spanish but never into English. Bicudo gave me exclusive permission to undertake this effort under one condition. As with the other renditions, earnings from its sale along with the translator’s royalties are to be donated to charity. I have decided to give all profits to a group dealing with rescuing dogs in São Paulo.

A Giant among Us. This will be the initial

work in the English language on Brazilian

human-rights lawyer Hélio Pereira Bicudo. He

first came to fame in Brazil through his

courage in accusing 35-members of the São

Paulo police department of belonging to death

squads during the recent military dictatorship.

He spent the rest of his life working for those

without the wheels of justice on their side. In

a land of countless scoundrels, Bicudo ranks

as one of its genuine heroes. “A Giant among Us” is being reviewed for publication consideration in the English language by a major academic press and in Portuguese as Um gigante entre de nós by an important Brazilian publisher. The Most Dangerous Man in the Country: Filinto Müller of Brazil. The police chief during much of Getúlio Vargas’ first administration, Filinto Müller has largely bore the brunt of the many accusations of police evil doing, from torture to murder, during the 1930s and early 1940s. Most scholars of Brazil simply believed the. al- 3

legations. This volume examines the totality of

Müller’s life and has uncovered little archival

evidence to substantiate direct charges against

him. What was discovered, however, was some-

thing even more sinister. The work is also

available in Portuguese as, O homem mais

perigoso do País: biografia de Filinto

Müller, o temido chefe da polícia da dita-

dura Vargas (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Civilização

Brasileira, 2017). The English-language edition

came out in 2020 by Peter Lang Press in New York, London, and Berlin. Johnny: A Spy's Life, with Gordon D. Scott

(University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010). The story of Johann Heinrich Amadeus de

Graaf, is one of which movies are made. Forced

to join the German Navy or face execution in

World War I, he fought at the Battle of Jutland,

joined the German Communist Party, traveled to

the Soviet Union to be educated, entered Soviet

Military Intelligence and became one of their

foreign espionage operatives. Becoming disenchanted with communism, Johnny sought out asylum from the Americans but was refused and shooed out of their consulate in Cologne. He then tried the British and was talked into joining MI6. Unaware their agent was a double, Moscow sent him to various countries on spy missions. In Brazil, he almost single-handedly kept the Communist Revolution of 1935 from succeeding. Until the publication of Johnny, the identity of the individual who stopped Brazil from turning Red was largely unknown. The book is also available in Portuguese as, Johnny: a vida do espião que delatou a Rebelião Comunista de 1935 (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record, 2010). The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control

in Brazil, 1954-2000 (Athens, OH: Ohio Uni-

versity Press, 2006). The final volume on elite

violence in Brazil begins with the suicide of

Getúlio Vargas on August 24, 1954. He might

have been able to stop what was to come: police

teams given license to do literally whatever they

wanted in respect to the yet to be adjudged. They

evolved into the first police death squads in con- temporary Latin America. The final two chapters present data on 32,675 homicides in just two Brazilian states that fit a death-squad modus operandi. Of the above number of fatalities just 1,415 were female, or 4.33%. The totality of the victims represent the largest number of fatalities by extermination-group activity ever undertaken. The Unpast is likewise available in Portuguese as The Unpast: violência das elites e controle social no Brasil, 1954-2000 (Recife: Editora Massangana, 2010).

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One of the Forgotten Things: Getúlio Vargas

and Brazilian Social Control, 1930-1954

(Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000). Volume II of

the elite violence effort looks under the surface of the national administrations of arguably Brazil’s

most important president, Getúlio Dornelles

Vargas, a man who would be king forever. The

culture of violence that he and others allowed and even urged is discussed. One of the Forgotten

Things is also available in Portuguese as Uma das coisas esquecidas: Getúlio Vargas e controle social no Brasil, 1930-1954 (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2001).

Beyond the Pale of Pity: Key Episodes of Elite Violence in Brazil to 1930 (San Francisco: Austin & Winfield, 1998). The first of three volumes tracing the origins of violence by elites, and their representatives, against non-elites, a scenario that would coalesce to tacitly support the formation of death squads in the second half of the 20th Century. This project is currently under discussion for translation into Portuguese as Além dos limites da piedade: episodios chaves da violência das elites no Brasil até 1930. RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT HISTORY (professional):

January to May 2024, Lecturer in The History of Brazil, The Department of History and the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Kansas. February 2018 to February 2022, Visiting Professor of Brazilian History at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Camobi, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

April 2012 to June 2012, Visiting Professor at the Núcleo de Estudos das Américas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de História (Center for the Study of the Americas, Department of History, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

March to September 2006: Researcher and Editor for Professor John W. F. Dulles’ book, Resisting Brazil's Military Regime: An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Professor Dulles passed away in 2008 as we were discussing a joint effort on my eventual book, The Most Dangerous Man in the Country.

Fall 2003: Visiting Assistant Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Department of Latin American Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Summer 1995: Editor for Robert M. Levine and José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy’s book, The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

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RELEVANT COURSES TAUGHT or scheduled:

● Extra-Legal Violence in Brazil, Hate Crimes, Minority and Ethnic Group Relations, Political Crime, The History of Brazil. Graduate School:

● Police Chief Filinto Müller (November 2021 – scheduled, but canceled due to Covid-19 closure of the university),

● Os integralistas (team taught in Portuguese),

● Extrajudicial violence in Brazil (taught in Portuguese),

● Historiography (taught in Portuguese)

● The Communist Revolution of 1935 (taught in Portuguese)

● Violence, Human Rights, and Democracy in Latin America

● Current Trends in Criminal Justice

PUBLICATIONS (book chapters):

“Brazil’s Military Positivists: Another Myth in Need of Explosion?” Latin American Positivism: New Historical and Philosophical Essays, Gregory D. Gilson and Irving Levinson (eds.), (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2012), pp. 126-44.

“Brazil,” State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People, with Sherri McCarthy and Helena Castenheira, org. Kathleen Malley-Morrison (Westport: Greenwood, 2009), vol. iv, chap. 10, pp. 167-84.

PUBLICATIONS (refereed journal articles):

“The Major,” [submitted]

“Filinto na Foz,” Revista da Escola Superior de Guerra [forthcoming].

“Hate along the Border: A Short Study of Intolerance,” [submitted].

“Ódio ao longo da fronteira: um estudo exploratório em vigilantismo,” Revista Latinidade, vol. IV, no. 1, January-June 2013, pp. 29-39.

“The Manipulation of History: Censorship in Freedom of Information Act Requests at the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation,” InterAção, vol. IV, no. 4, Jan-Jun 2013, pp. 163-76.

“Jonny e Filinto,” Revista de História da Biblioteca Nacional, no. 85, October 2012, pp. 72-75.

“O Rio se enfeita para a Belle Époque,” Revista Massangana, [no. 3], 2007, pp. 70-75.

“Silencing Women with a Shot, in Brazil,” Brazzil, no. 205, May/June 2003, pp. 27-30.

“Silencing Women with a Shot, in Brazil,” Brazzil, [www.brazzil.com], April 22, 2003.

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“Johnny's Two Trips to Brazil,” Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. XXXVIII, no. 1, Summer 2001, pp. 103-23.

“Slavery in Brazil: Does it Still Exist?” Review of Latin American Studies, vol. IV, no. 1, 1991, pp. 96-113.

“The Man of Gold: Mariel Moryscotte,” Today [Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences], September 1989, pp. 5-6.

“Vertical Mobility and the Naturalized Swede: A Research Note on Racism Five Years Later,” Contemporary Crises, vol. IX, no. 1, March 1985, pp. 75-80.

“Samma utbildning - sämre möjligheter: fem år senare,” Invandrar Rapport, no. 3, 1984, pp. 12-17.

“Vertical Mobility and the Naturalized Swede: A Research Note on Racism,” Contemporary Crises, vol. V, no. 4, October 1981, pp. 395-401.

“Samma utbildning - sämre möjligheter,” Invandrare och Minoriteter, no. 4, September 1980, pp. 30-33.

“Induced Abortion in the Republic of Ireland,” British Journal of Criminology, vol. XVIII, no. 3, July 1978, pp. 245-54.

“Abortion and Irish Women,” Social Studies: Irish Journal of Sociology, vol. VI, no. 1, November 1977, pp. 71-119.

PUBLICATIONS (newspaper articles):

“No Cinderella in Brazil,” Rio Life (Rio de Janeiro), September 16-18, 1989, p. 13. BOOK REVIEWS AND REBUTTALS:

Rose, R. S., Johnny: A Spy’s Life, “A Reply to the Review by Harvey Klehr,” https:

//johnnyaspyslife.blogspot.com/

Barcellos, Caco, ROTA 66: a história da polícia que mata. São Paulo: Globo, 1992. Reviewed in Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. XXXIII, no. 1, Summer 1996, pp. 155-57. Lopes, Roberval Conte, Matar ou morrer. São Paulo: R.C. Lopes, 1994. Reviewed in Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. XXXIII, no. 1, Summer 1996, pp. 155-57. Linger, Daniel Touro, Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. Reviewed for Hispanic American Historical Review (This review was requested by, but not accepted by Hispanic American Historical Review as it was highly critical of Linger's contribution. Copies are available on request.).

Morais, Fernando, Olga, 3rd ed. São Paulo: Alfa-Omega, 1985. Reviewed in South Eastern Latin Americanist, vol. XXXII, Nos. 2-3, September-December 1988, p. 22.

Mello, Frederico Pernambucano de, Guerreiros do sol: o banditismo no nordeste do Brasil, Recife: Massangana, 1985. Reviewed in South Eastern Latin Americanist, vol. XXXI, Nos. 3-4, December 1987-March 1988, pp. 54-55. EDITORSHIPS:

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Co-editor with Rogelio Reyes of the special edition on Brazil, Review of Latin American Studies, vol. IV, no. 1, 1991.

CONFERENCE (chairs):

Co-chairperson with Manuel Figueroa of the session “The Dialects of Violence in Latin America: Case Studies in Chile, Brazil, and El Salvador,” Latin American Studies Association convention, Washington DC, 1991. CONFERENCE (presentations):

“The First to Cry Out,” was submitted at the 17th BRASA (Brazilian Studies Association) Congress, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 2024.

“The Major,” was read at the 16th BRASA Congress, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2022.

Perspectivas recentes sobre história política e violência nas Américas no século xxi: Estados Unidos, México e o Brasil, discussant, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, 2018.

With the Research Methods class at Northern Arizona University, “Hate along the Border: An Exploratory Study in Vigilantism,” was presented to the Student Papers section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting, San Diego, CA, 2010.

“The Circling of Wagons: Name Censorship in Freedom of Information Act Requests at the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation,” was presented to the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting, San Diego, CA, 2010.

“Johnny: A Preview,” was presented at the Southern California Brazilianists meeting, Pitzer College, Pomona, CA, 2007.

“Female Death-Squad Victims in the States of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo,” was read before the 3rd meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association, King's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 1996.

“Filinto Strubling Müller and Police Violence in Brazil during the First Vargas Administration,” was presented at the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington DC, 1991.

“João Goulart: Was He as Bad as All That?” was delivered at the yearly meeting of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin America, San Francisco, 1991.

“Getúlio: Brazilian President, Brazilian Torturer,” was read, in greatly summarized form, before the annual conference of the Western Social Science Association, Portland OR, 1990.

“Slavery in Brazil: Does it Still Exist Today?” was delivered to the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, 1988.

“Vigilantism and the Police in Brazil: the Police in the State of São Paulo,” was read before the annual convention of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago, 1984.

“Vertical Mobility and the Naturalized Swede: a Research Note on Racism Five 8

Years Later,” was submitted to the yearly gathering of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Detroit, 1983.

“Vigilantism and the Police in Brazil: the Police in the State of Rio de Janeiro,” was presented to the meetings of the International Sociological Association, Mexico City, Mexico, 1982.

GUEST LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS:

“Os assuntos atuais” was discussed at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, 2018.

“Violência, estética e história. Uma análise cruzada de acontecimentos sociais modernos,” given at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, 2018.

“História e minha metodologia,” was presented at the Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Cabo Frio, RJ, Brazil in 2012.

“Foi Filinto Müller um tortuador?” was delivered at the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2011.

“Brazil: A History” was the subject of a lecture in the Department of Sociology at Northern Arizona University, Yuma in 2010.

“Ett problem i Brasilien,” was presented at the Latinamerikanska institutet vid Stockholms universitet, Stockholm, Sweden in 2000.

“Um ano nos arquivos das policias politicas do Rio de Janeiro,” was outlined before the staff of the Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1998.

“Growing Old in Sweden,” was the basis of a guest lecture in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Fresno in 1990.

“Slavery in Brazil before Abolition,” was delivered in the Ethnic Studies Program Department at California State University, Fresno in 1990.

“João Goulart: Brazil's Last Democratically Elected President,” was presented in the Chicano-Latino Department at California State University, Fresno in 1989.

“Brazil’s Death Squads,” was offered as a lecture to the assembled faculty and students of the Department of Sociology, California State University, Fresno in 1986.

“Research Techniques on Sensitive Social Topics,” was delivered in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, in 1983. RESEARCH TEAMS (member of the group):

Mundos do trabalho: história, movimentos, fontes e acervos documentais (Worlds of Work: History, Movements, Sources and Documentary Collections) at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

FILMS:

Historical consultant, Com as próprias mãos (José Francisco Tapajós, director) Pacto Filmes, 2019. This production explores the rise of Brazilian death squads. 9

AWARDS:

Faculdade da História, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Grant Finalist for the Teacher of the Year Award, Northern Arizona University, Yuma

(2010)

Finalist for the Teacher of the Year Award, Northern Arizona University, Yuma

(2009)

California State University, Fresno, School of Social Sciences Research Grant University of California, Santa Barbara, Jorge de Sena Center Scholarship

(declined)

Svenska institutet, Stockholm, Stipend

University of Stockholm, Graduate Student Research Award University of Stockholm PhD Thesis Award

University of Stockholm Graduate Student Award

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (memberships – current and former): Brazil Studies Association

American Historical Association

World Society of Victimology

American Sociological Association

Conference on Latin American History

Latin American Studies Association

Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Member of the United Farm Workers of America

THESIS COMMITTEES:

Member of the examination board for Ciro Marques Reis, “Construção do pensamento autoritário anticomunista no exército brasileiro nas páginas da revista Nação Armada (1939-1947),” Master’s thesis, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, January 2011. Member of the examination board for Fernando da Silva Rodrigues, “Uma carreira: as formas de acesso à escola de formação de oficiais do exército brasileiro no período de 1905 a 1946,” PhD thesis, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, July 2008. ACADEMIC COMMITTEES:

Latin American Studies Committee, Northern Arizona University Liberal Studies Committee, Northern Arizona University Latin American Studies Committee, University of Washington 10

Latin American Advisory Committee, California State University, Fresno

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