Timothy Eugene Murphy is an urban anthropologist and Professor of Urban Studies at Worcester State University. His research focuses on urban belonging, global middle classes, gender, sexuality, queerness, youth and public education, bohemian subcultures, and Brazil. Tim has taught in the Global Studies, Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, Honors, and First Year Seminar programs at Worcester State and is a leader of the university’s Favela Partnership Project, facilitating connections between Worcester State students and community leaders in Rio de Janeiro. Tim’s first book, Queerly Cosmopolitan: Bohemia and Belonging in a Middle-of-Nowhere Brazilian City, published by Palgrave in 2019, centers on a bohemian community in the Brazilian city of Teresina – a rapidly urbanizing city in Brazil’s poorest region. In 2022, a Portuguese edition of the book was published by EDUFPI, the Brazilian federal university press of Piauí. Tim has also conducted qualitative research and published on educational pathways and belonging among Latino men in urban Massachusetts.