Endowed Professorships
Peace in the Twenty-Second Century: An Afrofuturist History
Dr. Walter David Greason is DeWitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has taught since 2021. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Villanova University (1995) and a PhD in history from Temple University (2004). Greason is an historian who uses digital technologies to coordinate historic restoration projects around the world. His areas of research include urban planning, Afrofuturism, and multimedia user experience design. Greason is an author, editor, and contributor to more than twenty books, including Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey (2014), The Black Reparations Project (2023), and The Graphic History of Hip Hop (2024), a project created in collaboration with New York City Public Schools.
Current Endowed Chairs and Professorships
More recent Inaugural Lectures have been recorded and their links are included below.
| Holly R. Barcus – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography |
| Eric Carter – Link to Inaugural Lecture | Edens Professor of Geography and Global Health |
| Kristina A. Curry Rogers – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Biology and Geology |
| James Dawes – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of English |
| J. Peter Ferderer – Link to Inaugural Lecture | Edward John Noble Professor of Economics |
| Susan E. Fox – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science |
| Ruthann Godollei – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Art and Art History |
| Walter D. Greason – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of History |
| Thomas Halverson – Link to Inaugural Lecture | Armstrong Endowed Professorship in Mathematics |
| William Hart | Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religious Studies |
| Joanna V. Inglot | Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor of Art History |
| Gary Krueger – Link to Inaugural Lecture | Cargill Professor of International Economics |
| James W. Laine | Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies |
| R. Brooke Lea – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology |
| Joyce Minor | Karl Egge Professor (NTT) of Economics |
| Karine S. Moe | F.R. Bigelow Professor of Economics |
| William G. Moseley – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography |
| J. Andrew Overman | Harry M. Drake Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Fine Arts |
| Raymond R. Rogers – Link to Inaugural Lecture | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geology |
| Ahmed I. Samatar | James Wallace Professor of International Studies |
| Satako Suzuki | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures |
| Thomas D. Varberg | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Chemistry |
| Sarah E. West – Link to Inaugural Lecture | G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Economics |
| Eric Wiertelak | DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology |