Marcia Chatelain

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Marcia Chatelain
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AwardsPulitzer Prize for History (2021)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsGeorgetown University

Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University. In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book .[1] She is also the creator of the Ferguson Syllabus social media campaign and the author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration.

Biography[]

Education and career[]

Marcia Chatelain grew up in Chicago, Illinois.[2] She graduated from the University of Missouri in 2001, with degrees in journalism and religious studies. She then worked as the Resident Scholar at the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.[3] Chatelain received her A.M. and Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University, graduating in 2008, and was awarded the University of California-Santa Barbara's Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship.[4][3]

Chatelain worked as the Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma’s Honors College, before becoming a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University.[3]

#FergusonSyllabus[]

In 2014, following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Chatelain mobilized other scholars on Twitter to talk about what was happening in Ferguson with their students and to contribute to a crowdsourced reading list, which became known as the #FergusonSyllabus. The success of the syllabus has led to other crowdsourced syllabi to respond to national tragedies.[5][6] In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named Chatelain a Top Influencer in academic, in recognition of the success of #FergusonSyllabus.[4][3]

Podcasting[]

In 2017, Chatelain contributed to the "Undisclosed" podcast as a resident historian.[3] She currently hosts the Slate podcast, "The Waves," on feminism, gender, and popular culture.[7]

Awards, honors, and service[]

Chatelain has received awards from the Ford Foundation, American Association of University Women, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.[3] She has won teaching awards at Georgetown and serves on the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation.[7] In 2019, Chatelain was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She also served as an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation.[7]

In 2021, Chatelain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.[8]

Works[]

Chatelain has published two books: South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 2015), about the history of Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls[9] and Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2020) about the history of the relationship between civil rights and the fast food industry.[2][10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Pulitzer Prize: 2021 Winners List". The New York Times. 2021-06-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "'Franchise' Tracks The Rise And Role Of Fast Food In Black America". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Marcia Chatelain, Ph.D." Ignatian Solidarity Network. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Marcia Chatelain". New America. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  5. ^ Mangan, Katherine (2016-12-11). "Curricular Activist: Marcia Chatelain". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  6. ^ Caldwell, Ellen C. (2016-12-01). "Teaching Trump: The Rise of the Crowd-Sourced Syllabus". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Marcia Chatelain". Georgetown University Faculty Directory. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  8. ^ Freeman, Abigail (June 11, 2021). "Pulitzer Prizes 2021: The Full List Of Winners". Forbes. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  9. ^ "South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration". Duke University Press.
  10. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2020-01-08). "The Surprising History of McDonald's and the Civil Rights Movement". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-04.

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