Diego Lucci

Diego Lucci is a Professor of Philosophy and History at the American University in Bulgaria. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the General Secretary of the International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Naples “Federico II” in 2004 and has also taught at Boston University and the University of Missouri St. Louis.
He has been awarded research grants, fellowships, prizes, and other honors by various academic institutions and organizations, including, among others, the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg, the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London, Gladstone's Library in Wales, the Observatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum, the Center for Italian and European Studies at Boston University, and the American University in Bulgaria.
His research mainly focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English philosophical, political, and religious thought, the intellectual history of the Age of Enlightenment, and the history of Jewish-Gentile relations. He is the author of three books: "John Locke's Christianity" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), "The Jews, Instructions for Use: Four Eighteenth-Century Projects for the Emancipation of European Jews" (co-authored with Paolo L. Bernardini, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2012), and "Scripture and Deism: The Biblical Criticism of the Eighteenth-Century British Deists" (Bern: Lang, 2008). He is also the co-editor of five volumes, including, among others, "Atheism and Deism Revalued" (with Wayne Hudson and Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth; Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), and the author of over fifty book chapters and journal articles and over sixty book reviews. Some of his essays have appeared in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Hebraic Political Studies, History of European Ideas, History, Locke Studies, and the Intellectual History Review.
Address: c/o American University in Bulgaria
2700 Blagoevgrad
Bulgaria