Scholarship and Biography

Eileen McNamara teaches 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 on Cognoscenti, the commentary pages of WBUR.org, Boston's National Public Radio station.

Honors

Nieman Fellowship
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 1988
Public Service Citation for "Birth In The Death Zones"
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, 1991
Sigma Delta Chi, National Magazine Writing Award for "When Children Kill"
Society of Professional Journalists (United States, Indianapolis) - SPJ, 1992
Sigma Delta Chi, National Magazine Writing Award for "Death in Cell 103"
Society of Professional Journalists (United States, Indianapolis) - SPJ, 1993
Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
The Pulitzer Prizes, 1997
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters
Emerson College (United States, Boston), 1997
Distinguished Writing Award
News Leaders Association, 1997
The Yankee Quill Award
New England Academy of Journalists, 2007
Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2011

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of the Practice Emerita of Journalism, Interdepartmental Program in Journalism, Brandeis University

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
M.S.
Barnard College
B.A.