Dr. Stuart Squires earned his Ph.D. in historical and systematic theology with a focus on St. Augustine from the Catholic University of America in 2012. His M.A. in theology is from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and his B.A. in comparative religious studies is from DePaul University. After graduating from DePaul, Dr. Squires joined the Peace Corps, and was sent to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania for two years. He has taught at DePaul University, Brescia University, and the University of St. Thomas. He has been published in many academic journals, including Annales Theologici, Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Augustinianum, The Heythrop Journal, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Scottish Journal of Theology, and Augustiniana. In 2019, he published his first book, The Pelagian Controversy: An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls, with Wipf and Stock, and his second book, You Will Be Changed Into Me: The Fruits of the Eucharist, will be published next with New City Press, the press of the Focolare Movement.