Julio Souza de Oliveira is a Ph.D. student in History pursuing an international joint degree from Université Paris-Saclay and the University of Notre Dame, a program he began in the fall of 2022. He is a member of the IDHE.S-Evry laboratory (UMR 8533) and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Since 2023, he has also served as a lecturer in the History Department at Université Evry Paris-Saclay.
His doctoral research, titled "Transnational Circulations of Self-Management Ideas: Chile, France, and Mexico in the Global Sixties," investigates how left-wing intellectuals, activists, and students in these three countries shared and adapted ideas about self-management during the 1960s and 1970s.
Prior to his doctoral studies, Julio earned two master’s degrees:
A master’s in History, Economies, Societies (2022) from Université Paris-Saclay, where his thesis examined the "Brasília group," a cohort of Marxist intellectuals associated with Dependency Theory, and their work at the Center for Socio-Economic Studies (CESO) in Santiago, Chile, from 1966 to 1973.
A master’s in Social History of Brazil (2022) from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), where he analyzed the history of agribusiness during Brazil's military dictatorship, focusing on the Japanese-Brazilian project known as PRODECER.