Andrew DinanAndrew Dinan is an Associate Professor of Classics & Early Christian Literature at Ave Maria University, where he has taught since 2004. He began his study of Latin in the public schools of northern Virginia and his study of Greek at the University o Notre Dame, from where he graduated with a degree in Liberal Studies. After earning a graduate degree in Theology from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (Washington), he did graduate work (MA and PhD) in Greek and Latin at the Catholic University of America. His publications, in the fields of patristics, liturgical Latin, and Neo-Latin studies, have appeared in Humanistica Lovaniensia, The Classical Journal, Vigiliae Christianae, Journal of Early Christian Studies, American Catholic Studies, Antiphon, and others. His particular interest is the role of Latin within American history and culture. He is currently working on an annotated transcription and translation of the Latin correspondence between the nineteenth-century American prelates Francis Patrick Kenrick (1797-1863) and his brother Peter Richard Kenrick (1806-1896). Read More Read Less