Thomas Baruzzi
PhD Philosophy
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: T.Baruzzi@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Website
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Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
T. Baruzzi 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 a PhD researcher in Philosophy and Black Male Studies back at the University of Edinburgh.
His creative concerns outside of academia revolve around writing (mainly books and poetry), recording music, and photography:
- (2025) “Every Man (Todo Homem)” - Rafael Augusto & Thomas Baruzzi [Song Remake]
- (Forthcoming) "Giove & Giunone" [Independent Single]
- (Forthcoming) Magpie Syndrome [Children's Picture Book]
- (Forthcoming) Born of Sin: A Filial Epistolary [Memoir/Historical Fiction/Biblical Exegesis]
Responsibilities & affiliations
The Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA)
The Serendipity Society
Undergraduate teaching
Associate Fellow for AdvanceHE (Tutor Email: tbaruzzi@ed.ac.uk)
- Apprentice Tutor (Postgraduate Philosophy Module)
- 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
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
Research summary
T. Baruzzi's PhD explores theories and practices of women's sexual power (different from their sexual empowerement) achieved through a particular form of genuine self-victimization. It 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 philosophies of today's 21st century. The aim is to vastly redefine our understandings of patriarchy to include dynamics of female governance, and thus to better account for the mechanisms behind the oppression of especially radicalized, out-group men.
T. Baruzzi's research has also investigated the role of silence(s) in the violated lives of racialized males, and the applications of Black Male Studies to a global context, encompassing Uganda and Italy, in particular in the context of sexuality and male-directed rape.
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
- "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)