Eileen McNamara

Professor of the Practice of Journalism

eileenma@brandeis.edu
781-736-3049
Brown Social Science Center, 321

Departments/Programs

American Studies
Journalism

Degrees

Columbia University, M.S.
Barnard College, B.A.

Expertise

Journalism, society, and politics.

Profile

Eileen McNamara is a Professor of Journalism in the Journalism Program. She is the author of Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World, published in April 2018 by Simon & Schuster. A Professor of the Practice of Journalism since 2007, she joined Brandeis as an adjunct faculty member in 1995 when she was an award-winning reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe. She won an individual Pulitzer Prize for Commentary there and contributed to the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston. Her writing continues to appear there and on Cognoscenti, the commentary pages of WBUR.org, Boston's National Public Radio station.

Courses Taught

AMST	46b	American Biography
AMST	137b	Journalism in Twentieth-Century America
EL	10a	Experiential Learning Practicum
JOUR	104a	Political Packaging in America
JOUR	107b	Media and Public Policy
JOUR	110b	Ethics in Journalism
JOUR	138b	The Contemporary World in Print
JOUR	145a	Opinion Writing

Awards and Honors

Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2011)

The Yankee Quill Award, The Academy of New England Journalists (2007)

Distinguished Writing Award, American Society of Newspaper Editors (1997)

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, Emerson College (1997)

Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1997)

Sigma Delta Chi, National Magazine Writing Award for "Death in Cell 103" (1993)

Sigma Delta Chi, National Magazine Writing Award for "When Children Kill" (1992)

Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, Public Service Citation for "Birth In The Death Zones" (1991)

Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University (1988)

Scholarship

McNamara, Eileen. Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.

McNamara, Eileen/Eric Roth. The Parting Glass: A Toast To The Traditional Pubs of Ireland. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2006.

McNamara, Eileen. Breakdown: Sex, Suicide and the Harvard Psychiatrist. Pocket Books, 1994.

McNamara, Eileen. Eye on the President George Bush: History in Essays & Cartoons (Abortion Essay). Chronos Publishing, 1993.