William Dailey

Biography

Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC, returned in 2020 to the role of rector at Notre Dame after four years in Dublin, Ireland, where he was the founding Director of the Notre Dame Newman Centre for Faith and Reason at St. John Henry Newman’s University Church. Prior to his work in Dublin, Fr. Dailey served from 2010-16 as a Lecturer in Law in the Notre Dame Law School and from 2013-2016 as the Rector of Stanford Hall. In his time at Notre Dame his writings on the faith have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, First Things, The Catholic Herald, America Magazine, the National Catholic Reporter, and The Irish Catholic. He has been a featured commentator on MSNBC and the BBC. Fr. Dailey graduated from Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s in Philosophy summa cum laude in 1994, received a Master of Divinity degree from Notre Dame in 2000, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 2006. Fr. Dailey’s personal interests include philosophy, politics, law, and hospitality.