Tulio Bucchioni

Tulio Bucchioni is a PhD candidate at LAIC, a graduate certificate candidate at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and a recipient of the graduate certificate of the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender (ISSG). At the intersection of cultural studies and social history with queer, queer Marxist, trans, and feminist theories, in his dissertation Tulio studies emerging Cold War homosexual and gender and sexual non-normative artistic and intellectual production, activisms, and queer Marxist cultural and political practices in Brazil and Cuba. 

Before coming to Columbia, Tulio studied social anthropology at the University of São Paulo and at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Additionally, Tulio also worked at the Brazilian nonprofit Viração as a popular educator and researcher in HIV/Aids prevention projects in partnerships with the HIV/Aids Program of the City of São Paulo and UNICEF and focused on young gay men and queer people.

His research has been funded by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, the São Paulo Research Foundation, and the Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateuabriand (MASP).