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Jacob J. Andrews, PhD
Salvē! I hold a PhD in medieval philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and graduate degrees from Marquette University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. I teach Latin and Logic to students aged ten to eighteen at Covenant Classical School, and am an adjunct professor of philosophy at Wheaton College. I also serve as a houseparent at Jubilee Village, a transitional housing program for homeless single mothers, where I live with my wife, son, and daughter. And, occasionally, I sleep.
I started learning Latin at a classical school when I was six years old, and fell in love with it at eleven after I found a guide to scansion in the back of my dictionary . I taught myself to recite Latin verse quantitatively, and quickly realized that this rhythm was part of the language itself, not an oddity of its poetry. I marveled at the sound of this ancient language brought to life by careful study, and a quarter of a century later that wonder has never lessened. I am passionate about teaching students to engage with Latin as a living language, reading it fluently and developing an intuitive grasp of its subtleties.
My passion for philosophy was also a happy accident: during my freshman year of college, I took logic and philosophy of science to get out of math and science classes! (I wish I’d taken math and science, but I don’t regret the philosophy.) I quickly became attracted to analytic philosophy of religion and then to scholastic thought, which dovetailed with my love for Latin and gave me a new and invigorating way to think about my Christian faith. I also grew up in a neighborhood of immigrants and refugees, and philosophy has provided a way to engage with and learn from other cultures and religious traditions at their best. I have published comparative work on scholasticism and Confucian thought, and am pursuing a comparative project on Hindu philosophy.
You can learn more about me at my personal website, and you can get in touch with me on X, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
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