Thomas Baruzzi

PhD Philosophy

Biography

Background

T. Baruzzi was born in Italy but has lived in Japan, Hong Kong, the United State, the UK, and the Netherlands. He began his undergraduate studies in Physics at the Honors College of Stony Brook University, switching over to Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his MA in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and is currently an accredited tutor and PhD researcher in Philosophy and Black Male Studies (BMS) at the University of Edinburgh, and accredited Tutor. 

Outside of academia, he deals with writing, recording music, and amateur digital photography. Selected projects include:

  • (2025) “Every Man (Todo Homem)” - Rafael Augusto & Thomas Baruzzi [Portuguese-Italian Song Cover]
  • (Forthcoming) "Giove & Giunone" [Independent Single]
  • (Forthcoming) Magpie Syndrome [Children's Picture Book]
  • (Forthcoming) Amorality [Poetry Book]
  • (Forthcoming) Book of Thomas: A Filial Epistolary [Memoir and Biblical Exegesis]

CV

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Qualifications

Associate Fellow (AdvanceHE)

Responsibilities & affiliations

The Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA)

The Serendipity Society

Undergraduate teaching

Tutor (Undergraduate Philosophy Modules)

  • "Introduction to History of Philosophy B" (Sem. 2, 24-25); 
  • "Philosophy of Science 1" (Sem. 1, 24-25); 
  • "Introduction to History of Philosophy A" (Sem. 2, 23-24)

Tutor (PPLS Skills Centre)

  • 1-on-1 essay writing appointments

Postgraduate teaching

Apprentice Lecturer (Postgraduate Philosophy Modules)

 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Research summary

T. Baruzzi's main research explores theories and practices of women's sexual power achieved through a particular form of genuine self-victimization. Focused on white supremacist regimes, he argues for a direct link between white women's 'cries of rape' against Black men in the 19th–20th centuries that led to their countless deaths by lynching, to the radical sexual consent policies and ideologies of today. The aim is to vastly redefine our understandings of patriarchy to include dynamics of female governance, and thus to retheorize white heterosexuality to better account for the mechanisms behind the oppression of racialized, out-group men. This forms part of his broader interest in decolonial erotics and in questions of sexual power and (non)consent, which has found him extending his research outside the West to include Northern Uganda and Italy. He is currently working on translating to italian the works of W.E.B. Du Bois and contemporary scholarship in Black Male Studies and Africana Philosophy.

 

Publications:

Baruzzi, T. (2023). Can('t) the Black male speak? A study of the silences that beset him and the gendered vulnerabilities they reveal. UvA Scripties. Retrieved from https://scripties.uba.uva.nl/search?id=c9238257

Baruzzi, T. (2022). Futile even when it’s not: Alika Ogochukwu was a Black male and murdered because of it. Cimedart, vol. 53, issue 1. Retrieved from http://cimedart.nl/onvolledig-archief/53-1/futile-even-when-its-not-alika-was-a-black-male-and-murdered-because-of-it/

Baruzzi, T. (2022). Rough sex as oppressive towards (wo)men: A study of the dominance behind western Women’s submissiveness (Order No. 29322344). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Publicly Available Content Database. (2729045608). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/rough-sex-as-oppressive-towards-wo-men-study/docview/2729045608/se-2

Papers delivered

  • "Afrofuturism Meets its Imposter: The Role of Sex-Love in Decoloniality," presented at Future Waves: Afrofuturism 2.0 and The World (Dakar, Senegal, Sept. 12–15 2025)
  • "Theories of Female Sexual Governance," presented at the Second-Year PhD Conference (University of Edinburgh, May 8th 2025);
  • “The unspeakable unspoken: Black male vulnerability to intimate violence," presented at The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) Annual Conference 2023 (ID: 167 / Panel 4-3-C: 1 / see p.4 of https://www.ozsw.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/OZSW-Conference-2023-abstract-book.pdf)
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