Graduate Associate, 2011- | Department of Political Science
Doctoral Student, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.
His research interests include the history of political thought, particularly Renaissance and early modern political theory, the history of ideas and the role of rhetoric, history and violence in the discourse of politics.
Mauricio’s MA thesis explored the importance of violence as narrative in the political thought of Machiavelli, for which he was awarded the Herbert Quinn Medal in Political Science at Concordia University. He has also written and published on the subject of rhetoric and history in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories. More recently, Mauricio has become interested in the significance of ethics in the political thought of late Florentine Renaissance thinkers such as Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini.
Mauricio holds a BA and a MA in political science both from Concordia University. He has also studied at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his spare time, he enjoys playing volleyball, snowshoeing and watching movies with his girlfriend Veronique and Choukriya, their cat.