Aideen O'Leary is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Keogh Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. She earned her doctorate at Cambridge Univesity in England, and is a frequent speaker at academic conferences in Ireland, the UK, and the USA. She is author of Trials and Translations: The Latin Origins of the Irish Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles.