Bianca Barbosa Chizzolini

PhD student in Social Anthropology (2020) at University of São Paulo (PPGAS-USP), Master in Social Anthropology (2013) by the same program, with a dissertation entitled "Weaving the network: an ethnography of residents and merchants in downtown São Paulo between practices and discourses of requalification", research supervised by Prof. Dr. Heitor Frúgoli Jr. Dissertation carried out with a grant from the São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) and nominated by PPGAS-USP for the ANPOCS award. She has a bachelor's degree (2009) in Social Sciences (FFLCH-USP), a degree in Social Sciences (FE-USP) and an exchange program (2009) at Université Paris X (Nanterre/France). She was a lecturer at the Paula Souza State Center for Technological Education - ETEC (2014-15). She was a collaborating researcher at the Anthropology of the City Study Group (GEAC-USP) and a consultant in innovation and consumption research, an area in which she worked for ten years in research institutes and industry. She is currently a researcher at the ASA Collective - Arts, Knowledge and Anthropology and a researcher at the FAPESP Thematic Group "Arts and semantics of creation and memory". She is currently carrying out ethnographic research on Mexican textile culture under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and has received a grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation to carry out fieldwork in Oaxaca (Mexico). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)