Walter Greason
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Walter Greason, Ph.D.
Walter Greason is the founding scholar and historian of Afrofuturist Design. He is an author, editor, and contributor to more than twenty books, mostly notably the award-winning books听Suburban Erasure, Illmatic Consequences,听The Black Reparations Project,听听and听The Graphic History of Hip Hop.听 His work on the Timothy Thomas Fortune Cultural Center has garnered international acclaim for the innovative use of digital technology, leading to multiple urban revitalization projects in Minnesota, Florida, New Jersey, and Louisiana. He appeared on dozens of mass听media听outlets in the United听States and around the world.听
He was a Future Faculty Fellow at Temple University where he completed his Ph.D. in History and contributed to President听William J. Clinton’s National Dialogue on Race.听 As a Presidential Scholar at Villanova University where he studied History, English, Philosophy, Peace and Justice Studies, and Africana Studies, he organized a social justice campaign that听established听the first Strategic Plan for Cultural Diversity in American history. The principles of the plan were adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2006 and led to a massive capital expansion of the university, culminating in the Vatican’s election of Pope Leo XIV in 2025.
His most recent project,听The Graphic History of Hip Hop, with Afrofuturist illustrator Tim Fielder, has been featured at the United Nations, the Smithsonian Institution鈥檚 National Museum for African American History and Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Schomburg Center in the New York Public Library system, and San Diego Comic-Con in 2024.
He is the Wallace Endowed Chair of History in the Department of History at 日韩精品 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and holds research affiliate positions with Brandeis University鈥檚 Institute for Economic and Racial Equity, Rutgers University鈥檚 Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, the Center for New American History at the University of Richmond, and the University of Minnesota鈥檚 College of Design.
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- History: Then and Now
- Narrating Black Women’s Resistance
- Civil Rights in the United States
- In Motion: African Americans and the Media
- Marronage
- Racism and Digital Media