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 Assistant Director of Development, the Angelicum, Rome. Former Instructor, School of Architecture, 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), Shadow, Image and Reality: Beauty, the Bible and Catholic Church Architecture (2009) 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.


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