Project: "The Pontificate of John Paul II and the Administration of George W. Bush: Points of Convergence and Divergence in Social and Foreign Policy."

Bio:

Andrea is the Assistant Director of The Rome Program and The Vatican Studies Center for The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. She has worked as a freelance journalist in Rome since 2002, writing for Inside the Vatican magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, the Wall Street Journal Europe, NewsMax, Chronicles magazine, Zenit.org, H2onews.org, Aleteia.org, and blogging. She has given commentary on Vatican-related news stories for BBC World, Deutsche Welle, and Global Journalist radio. Andrea is a graduate of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, the International Institute for Political and Economic Studies in Greece, the National Journalism Center in Washington, D.C., and currently continues her education by attending courses at Pontifical Universities in Rome. Andrea and her family split their time between Rome and Michigan.