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Celeste McNamara

Dr. Celeste McNamara

Celeste McNamara is a historian of early modern Europe. She specialises in early modern Italy, the history of the Catholic Church, gender, and the history of crime. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA (2013). Before coming to DCU, she taught at the State University of New York at Cortland, University of Warwick/Warwick in Venice, and the College of William and Mary.

Dr McNamara is the author of The Bishop's Burden: Reforming the Catholic Church in Early Modern Italy (CUA Press, 2020), and a number of articles and book chapters. She is currently working on the history of the control of illicit sexuality in 18th century Venice by both ecclesiastical and secular powers, with funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Research Interests

  • Early Modern European Social and Cultural History
  • Early Modern Italy
  • Protestant and Catholic Reformations
  • Medieval and Early Modern Christianity   
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Gender History
  • Religious History
  • Popular Culture
  • Venice and the Veneto

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External Positions

  • Assistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY Cortland
    2018 – 2021
  • Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Warwick
    2015 – 2018
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of William and Mary
    2013 – 2015

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD, Northwestern University
    Field of study: Humanities and the arts
    … – 2013
    Project: The Tragedy of Tridentine Reform in Late Seventeenth-Century Padua
    Award date: 21/06/2013
  • Master's Degree, Northwestern University
    Field of study: Humanities and the arts
    … – 2008
    Project: Sacred Profanity: Disseminating Religious Reform through Carnivalesque Poetry
  • Bachelor's Degree, College of William and Mary
    Field of study: Humanities and the arts
    … – 2007

Professional Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
    … – 2018