{"id":2377,"date":"2024-10-08T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/?page_id=2377"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:37:53","slug":"endowed-professorships","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/endowed-professorships\/","title":{"rendered":"Endowed Professorships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peace in the Twenty-Second Century: An Afrofuturist History<\/h2>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t

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). <\/p>\n\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t

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Current Endowed Chairs and Professorships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

More recent Inaugural Lectures have been recorded and their links are included below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly R. Barcus – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography<\/td><\/tr>
Eric Carter – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>Edens Professor of Geography and Global Health<\/td><\/tr>
Kristina A. Curry Rogers – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Biology and Geology<\/td><\/tr>
James Dawes – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of English<\/td><\/tr>
J. Peter Ferderer – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>Edward John Noble Professor of Economics<\/td><\/tr>
Susan E. Fox – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science<\/td><\/tr>
Ruthann Godollei – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Art and Art History<\/td><\/tr>
Walter D. Greason – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of History<\/td><\/tr>
Thomas Halverson – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>Armstrong Endowed Professorship in Mathematics<\/td><\/tr>
William Hart<\/td>Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religious Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Joanna V. Inglot<\/td>Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor of Art History<\/td><\/tr>
Gary Krueger – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>Cargill Professor of International Economics<\/td><\/tr>
James W. Laine<\/td>Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies<\/td><\/tr>
R. Brooke Lea – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology<\/td><\/tr>
Joyce Minor<\/td>Karl Egge Professor (NTT) of Economics<\/td><\/tr>
Karine S. Moe<\/td>F.R. Bigelow Professor of Economics<\/td><\/tr>
William G. Moseley – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography<\/td><\/tr>
J. Andrew Overman<\/td>Harry M. Drake Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Fine Arts<\/td><\/tr>
Raymond R. Rogers – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geology<\/td><\/tr>
Ahmed I. Samatar<\/td>James Wallace Professor of International Studies<\/td><\/tr>
Satako Suzuki<\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures<\/td><\/tr>
Thomas D. Varberg<\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Chemistry<\/td><\/tr>
Sarah E. West – Link to Inaugural Lecture<\/a><\/td>G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Economics<\/td><\/tr>
Eric Wiertelak<\/td>DeWitt Wallace Professor of Psychology<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2377\/revisions\/3426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}