Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Luke is Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs & Projects at the Ciocca Center, and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Business in the Busch School where is the Director of the Cluny Project.

He is the award-winning author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (2021), The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion (2026), and co-author of Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person. He is the editor of the volume Be Not Conformed: René Girard at the Intersection of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley (2026).

Luke writes regularly on his popular Substack newsletter at read.lukeburgis.com.

He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Claire, and their children.