1. Marcia Chatelain was born on 1979 and is an American academic who serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
12 Facts About Marcia Chatelain
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Marcia Chatelain is the creator of the Ferguson Syllabus social media campaign and the author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration.
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Marcia Chatelain graduated from the University of Missouri in 2001, with degrees in journalism and religious studies.
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Marcia Chatelain then worked as a Resident Scholar at the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation.
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Marcia 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.
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In 2014, following the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Marcia Chatelain mobilized other scholars on Twitter to talk about what was happening in Ferguson with their students and contribute to a crowdsourced reading list.
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In 2017, Marcia Chatelain contributed to the Undisclosed podcast as a resident historian.
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Marcia Chatelain has received awards from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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Marcia Chatelain has won teaching awards at Georgetown University, where she serves on the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation.
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Marcia Chatelain served as an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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In 2023, Marcia Chatelain was nominated to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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In 2021, Marcia Chatelain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.