Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University. Following the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, she organized a social media response in the form of the crowdsourced #FergusonSyllabus. She is also the author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration and Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.

Biography

Education and career

Marcia Chatelain grew up in Chicago, Illinois.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3][2]

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.[2]

#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.[4][5] In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named Chatelain a Top Influencer in academic, in recognition of the success of #FergusonSyllabus.[3][2]

Podcasting

In 2017, Chatelain contributed to the "Undisclosed" podcast as a resident historian.[2] She currently hosts the Slate podcast, "The Waves," on feminism, gender, and popular culture.[6]

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.[2] She has won teaching awards at Georgetown and serves on the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation.[6] In 2019, Chatelain was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She also served as an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation.[6]

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[7] 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.[1][8]

References
  1. "'Franchise' Tracks The Rise And Role Of Fast Food In Black America". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  2. "Marcia Chatelain, Ph.D." Ignatian Solidarity Network. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  3. "Marcia Chatelain". New America. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  4. "Curricular Activist: Marcia Chatelain". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2016-12-11. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  5. Caldwell, Ellen C. (2016-12-01). "Teaching Trump: The Rise of the Crowd-Sourced Syllabus". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  6. "Marcia Chatelain". Georgetown University Faculty Directory. Retrieved 2020-08-03.
  7. "South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration". Duke University Press.
  8. 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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