Fr. Andrew Hofer came to the Pontifical Faculty in 2010. After growing up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in southeast Kansas, he studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College before going to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers and professed his solemn vows in the Year of the Great Jubilee. After his ordination to the priesthood and completion of the S.T.L. in 2002, he ministered as an associate pastor at St. Pius V Parish in Providence for almost six months. For the following two years, he served as the moderator of studies of the Order’s East African vicariate and taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2010, he completed the Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity (specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology) and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Downside Review, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Worship, Communio, and Angelicum.