Celeste McNamara
Dr

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.
Peer Reviewed Journal
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2025 | Juliana Adelman; Celeste McNamara (2025) 'History and historical fiction: Experiences from history undergraduates'. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, . https://doi.org/10.1177/14740222251360103 | |
2024 | McNamara, C. (2024) 'Priests Behaving Badly: The Problem of Scandal in the Early Modern Catholic Church*'. Journal of Modern History, 96 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | Mcnamara, Celeste (2023) 'Dangerous liaisons, or strategies for family management in eighteenth-century Venice'. History of the Family, 28 (4). [DOI] | |
2019 | Celeste McNamara (2019) 'Molding the Model Bishop from Trent to Vatican II'. Church History, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2016 | Celeste McNamara (2016) 'What the People Want: Popular Support for Catholic Reform in the Veneto'. Catholic Historical Review, . [Link] [DOI] | |
2013 | Celeste McNamara (2013) 'Conceptualizing the Priest: Lay and Episcopal Expectations of Clerical Reform in Late Seventeenth-Century Padua'. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, . [Link] [DOI] |
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Research Interests
Early Modern Europe
Early Modern Italy
Catholic Reform
Crime and Punishment
Gender History
Religious History
Popular Culture
Venice and the Veneto