DENIS R. MCNAMARA, M.ARCH.H., Ph.D.
Assistant Director and Faculty Member, The Liturgical Institute

B.A., History of Art, Yale University, M.Arch.H. and Ph.D., Architectural History, University of Virginia. Dissertation: “Modern and Medieval: Church Architecture in the United States, 1920-1945.”

Former Instructor at the School of Architecture of the University of Virginia and Graduate Advisor Chair for the Office of the Dean of Students, University of Virginia.

Author of Heavenly City: The Architectural Tradition of Catholic Chicago (2005), Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit of the Liturgy (2009), How to Read Churches (2011) and articles and reviews in Chicago Studies, Communio, The Priest, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Assembly, Sacred Architecture, Letter and Spirit, and Environment and Art Letter. Member of the Society of Architectural Historians, Society for Catholic Liturgy and the Institute for Classical Architecture. Theological and architectural consultant  for the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel (Leawood, Kansas), Cathedral of Saint Patrick (Harrisburg, PA), Cathedral of Saint Joseph (Manchester, NH), the Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy (Chicago, IL) and the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of the Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Sioux Falls, SD among others.

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