Marcia Chatelain

Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, 2017

Marcia Chatelain, Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow, is Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of two books—South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (2015) and Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (2020), she has written for the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Nation, and the Washington Post. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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