Endowed Professorships
Five Faculty Members Named Endowed Chairs
Inaugural Lecture – Dr. Walter D. Greason
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).
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 |