Sam is an M.A. Student in classics at Washington University in St. Louis and an M.Div. Student at Concordia Seminary St. Louis. His research interests are early Christianity, early Christian interaction with philosophy and the Roman government, military history, late Roman republican history, and ancient language pedagogy. In particular, he has recently been placing focus on the pre-Constantinian Christian interactions with Rome, especially the apologies of Justin Martyr.

 

Sam received his B.A. with a double major in Applied Theology and Theological Languages from Concordia University Wisconsin and completed a simultaneous minor in Military Science at Marquette University. He recently self-published an intermediate reader of Xenophon's Apology of Socrates with facing vocabulary and grammatical commentary. In his free time, Sam enjoys reading, lifting weights, studying languages, and mixed martial arts.