Lund-Gill Chair
Dr. Craig A. Ford, Jr. named 2024鈥2025 Lund-Gill Chair
Dr. Craig A. Ford, Jr., assistant professor of theology and religious studies at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin, joins 海角社区 as this year鈥檚 Lund-Gill Chair in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences.
As Lund-Gill Chair, Ford will teach an honors theology course on the liberative theologies of sex, gender and race within the Roman Catholic tradition during the spring 2025 semester, he said.
鈥淚n coming to Dominican, my hope is to show how truly wide the Catholic imagination can be when we think about some of today's most controversial issues,鈥 Ford said. 鈥淢ore importantly, I hope to learn from the students how their own identities and experiences meaningfully participate in widening that imagination as well.鈥
At St. Norbert, Ford teaches courses in Christian ethics, race, gender and sexuality, and ecclesiology, and serves as co-director for the school鈥檚 peace and justice interdisciplinary minor.
Ford also teaches courses in Black theology at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in Louisiana, the country鈥檚 only Catholic historically Black college.
A scholar and activist, Ford leads workshops on issues of racial, sexual and gender justice, working with Catholic parishes, colleges, universities and professional organizations.
In 2022, Ford was the recipient of the from the Catholic Theological Society of America, the largest professional society of theologians in the world. He also been recognized by St. Nobert College with three distinguished awards.
About the Lund-Gill Chair
The endowed Lund-Gill Chair was established in 2003 to recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of two Dominican Sisters, Candida Lund, OP, and Cyrille Gill, OP. The Lund-Gill Chair was created in order to bring to our campus individuals of the highest moral and intellectual reputation who can address themes and issues at the heart of the liberal arts and sciences and at the intersections of academia and society.
Former Lund-Gill Scholars
2023-2024: Ada Cheng (SOC/ENG). Sociology researcher and professor and social justice advocate.
2022-2023: Sandra Delgado, (THEA/ENG). Writer and performer.
2021-2022: Luis Argueta (Communication Arts and Sciences)鈥擥uatemalan film-maker.
2020-2021: None (COVID).
2019鈥2020: Marion Weedermann, PhD, professor of mathematics at 海角社区
2018-2019; 2017鈥2018: Molly J. Giblin, PhD, instructor in the Department of History at the University of Memphis
2016鈥2017: Robert Calin-Jageman, PhD, professor of psychology and director of the neuroscience program, 海角社区.
2015鈥2016: Sr. M. Paul McCaughey, Archbishop of Chicago's Delegate for School Advancement and Advocacy.
2014鈥2015: Ana Castillo, internationally acclaimed creative writer, scholar, editor, and translator.
2013鈥2014: Tricia Rose, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University.
2012鈥2013: Christopher Kennedy, Chairman of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises.
2011鈥2012: Eboo Patel, PhD, founder and the executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core.
2010鈥2011: Chia-Feng Chang, PhD, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and expert in Chinese science and medicine.
2009鈥2010: Father Richard Woods, OP, professor of theology and former chair of the Ekhart Society .
2008鈥2009: Stephen Kinzer, a prize-winning journalist with the Boston Globe and New York Times.
2007鈥2008: David Bevington, the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
2006鈥2007: Leon Lederman, Nobel prize-winning physicist who was the inaugural chair.