Christopher S. Mackay has always been interested in languages, and it's been downhill since he started teaching himself Latin at the age of 13. He majored in Classics at the University of Michigan, and went on to receive a doctorate in Classical philology at Harvard University. There he studied Greek and Latin languages and literatures, but specialized in Roman history. After teaching briefly at Harvard and Brown Univs., he's been at the University of Alberta since 1996, acting as graduate chair in 2005-8. Assorted vagaries have led to his interests in late medieval/early modern witchcraft, the anabaptist wackiness in Münster, and the Nahuatl language. Like Solon, I grow older learning something new every day!