Bruno is a political theorist and historian of political thought. His research interests include the work of Karl Marx, theories of popular democracy, the republican political tradition, and nineteenth-century political thought. Currently, he is completing a book entitled Citizen Marx: Republicanism, and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Before joining the New Institute, he was a Fellow in Political Theory the Department of Government at LSE, a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Theory at the Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin. Previously, he had received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2017, his thesis being titled Citizen Marx: The Relationship between Karl Marx and Republicanism.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE Bruno is involved in the program The Future of Democracy.