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Marcia Chatelain

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'''Marcia Chatelain''' is a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of history and African American studies at [[Georgetown University]]. Following the police shooting of [[Shooting of Michael Brown|Michael Brown]] in [[Ferguson, Missouri]], she organized a social media response in the form of the crowdsourced [[Ferguson Syllabus|#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|Chicago, Illinois]].<ref name=":0"></ref> 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.<ref name=":1"></ref> 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|University of California-Santa Barbara]]'s Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship.<ref name=":2"></ref><ref name=":1" />

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]].<ref name=":1" />

=== #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.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In 2016, the ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education|Chronicle of Higher Education]]'' named Chatelain a Top Influencer in academic, in recognition of the success of #FergusonSyllabus.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

=== Podcasting ===
In 2017, Chatelain contributed to the [[Undisclosed (podcast)|"Undisclosed"]] podcast as a resident historian.<ref name=":1" /> She currently hosts the [[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] podcast, "The Waves," on feminism, gender, and popular culture.<ref name=":3">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

=== 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]].<ref name=":1" /> She has won teaching awards at Georgetown and serves on the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation.<ref name=":3" /> In 2019, Chatelain was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She also served as an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the [[New America Foundation]].<ref name=":3" />

=== 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 (African American)|Great Migration]] through the lens of black girls''<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>'' and ''Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America'' ([[Boni & Liveright|Liveright]]/[[W. W. Norton & Company|W.W. Norton]], 2020) about the history of the relationship between [[Civil rights movement (1896–1954)|civil rights]] and the [[fast food industry]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Georgetown University faculty]]
[[Category:Brown University alumni]]
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== External links ==

* [https://ift.tt/1ou6N5N Official website]
* [https://twitter.com/DrMChatelain Twitter]
* [https://ift.tt/33oBUHq Google Scholar]

[[Category:University of Missouri alumni]]
[[Category:Historians of African Americans]]
[[Category:21st-century American historians]]
[[Category:American historians]]
[[Category:African-American historians]]
[[Category:African-American academics]]


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