Niall Dilucia

My PhD examines the relationship between philosophy, theology, and salvation in the works of three English Catholic scholars: Kenelm Digby (1603-1665). Thomas White (1593-1676), and Franciscus à Sancta Clara (1598-1680). 

I am also interested more generally in the history of political thought; the treatment of theology in contemporary historiography; and Neo-Latin studies. 

Robinson College, Cambridge Fellows and Graduates’ Research Day: ‘A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet? Cartesianism, the Eucharist, and the Problem of Philosophical Categorisation’ (January 2020).

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period: 'Sir Kenelm Digby and the Intellectual Mobility of a Seventeenth-Century Catholic Philosopher' (February 2021).

Between Self and State: Exile in the Early Modern World  (Interdisciplinary two-day conference, University of Cambridge): 'Sir Kenelm Digby and the Intellectual Experiences of an 'Exiled'  Seventeenth-Century Catholic Philosopher' (March 2021). 

Cambridge Workshop in Political Thought and Intellectual History:  'Sociability and Salvation in Early Modern Catholic Thought' (October, 2021). 

EMPHASIS Seminar, University of London: "“Salvation in English Catholic scholarship: reconsidering the philosophies of Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas White, and Franciscus à Sancta Clara” (December, 2022).

For the academic year 2020-21 I was a co-convenor of the Graduate Workshop in Political Thought and Intellectual History.

I was a co-convenor of the 2021 Cambridge Political Thought and Intellectual History Graduate Conference: 'Education and Educators in Political Thought'. 

I supervise for Pol 7 (History of Political Thought to c.1700) and teach undergraduate HAP classes on Intellectual History and Postmodernism.