MARCIA CHATELAIN was awarded the Pulitzer Prize last year for her acclaimed book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, she has been in high demand for speaking engagements all over the world. Marcia Chatelain is in demand worldwide for her engaging and informative talks Olaf College, Creative Mornings, The Aspen Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, A&E Networks, and more.Īward-winning author Dr. Chatelain has offered her insights about the many ways history impacts our present and shapes our future in sought-after events with groups like St.

She also serves as a consultant for many media outlets including The Atlantic, C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, and BBC America.

She was a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and was named a Top Influencer in Higher Education by the Chronicle of Higher Education in recognition of her curation of #FergusonSyllabus, a response to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. Levine Award, as well as the James Beard Award. Franchise was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Book, and received the Hagley Prize for Best Book in Business History, the Organization of American Historians’ Lawrence W. Chatelain won a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, which examines the intersection of the post-1968 Civil Rights struggle and the rise of the fast-food industry. Chatelain uses her deep background and experience as a facilitator to help organizations create practical strategies to achieve their goals.ĭr. Her first book, South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration, reimagines the mass exodus of Black Southerners to the urban North from the perspective of girls and teenage women. She also served on the Georgetown University Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, and is a renowned voice on universities, slavery, and reparations. Chatelain was a Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, and is currently a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Marcia Chatelain helps organizations respond to and solve the challenges that confront them. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scholar of African American life and culture Dr.

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