Alvaro Gabriel Bianchi Mendez

Associate professor; head of the Laboratory of Political Thought (Pepol/Unicamp); research associate at the National Institute of Science and Technology for Studies on the United States (INCT-Ineu); and CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship Level 2. Master in Sociology (2000) and PhD in Social Sciences (2004) from the State University of Campinas. Visiting researcher at Columbia University (2013), at Fondazione Gramsci (2010, 2016 and 2019) and at Brunel University (2022). Member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Gramsci Society, of the editorial board of the periodicals Outubro and International Gramsci Journal and of the Scientific Committee of the Marx 21 (Unicamp publishing house) and Per Gramsci (International Gramsci Society and Centro interuniversitario di ricerca per gli studi gramsciani) collections. . He works in the field of Political Science, with an emphasis on the history of Italian and Brazilian political thought and the history of Political Science. He was director of the Edgard Leuenroth Archive (2009-2017) and of the Institute of Philosophy in Human Sciences at Unicamp (2017-2020).

graduation at Ciências Sociais from Universidade de São Paulo (1996), master's at Sociology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1999) and doctorate at Sociology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2004). Has experience in Political Science, focusing on Theory of Contemporary Politics, acting on the following subjects: antonio gramsci, empresários, marxismo, neoliberalismo and partido dos trabalhadores.