Julia M. McNamara | |
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Education | Yale University (Ph.D.) |
Julia M. McNamara is a scholar of French literature, an academic administrator, and a former nun. She served as president of Albertus Magnus College in New Haven from 1982 to 2016. [1] [2]
McNamara grew up in Queens, New York and attended Dominican Academy. [3] She earned degrees from Ohio Dominican University and Middlebury College before completing her PhD in French at Yale University, with a dissertation on Julien Green. [1] [4] A member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace until 1987, she joined the faculty of Albertus Magnus, founded by the order, in 1976, and became a dean there in 1980. [3] She presided over a thorough transformation of the college, beginning with the admission of men for the first time in 1985. [5] She also expanded the college's fundraising efforts, succeeding in significantly adding to its endowment. [6] She retired in 2016. [2]
Outside of Albertus, McNamara has served on the board of Yale New Haven Hospital and other local charities. [1] She was the first woman to serve on the Committee of the Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Lands, which oversees the New Haven Green. [1] [7]