Marcia Chatelain
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Marcia Chatelain (born 1979) is an American academic who serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, for which she also won the James Beard Award for Writing in 2022. Chatelain was the first black woman to win the latter award.[1][2]
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Born | 1979 (age 44ā45) |
Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History (2021) |
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Doctoral advisor | Mari Jo Buhle |
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Discipline | History, African American Studies |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Georgetown University |
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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.