Mary Leihy

Mary Leihy is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Benedictine College. She is one of the first graduates of the Benedictine College Architecture Program and a recent graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Graduate School of Architecture. She has returned to Benedictine College to help cultivate the living tradition of classical architecture found in this beloved Catholic, Liberal Arts College. Her focus centers on rekindling beauty and tradition through recapturing the imagination of the architectural and historic significance of the hearth and altar in the home. The heart of her academic research centers on the reintegration of the Catholic Church’s understanding of the holistic care of the human person in dignified, accessible housing for the elderly, unhoused, or disabled. She is excited to invest what she has been given into the Benedictine College Architecture Department and the greater Atchison Community.