Marcia Chatelain, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, History
Georgetown University
3700 “O” Street, NW
597 Intercultural Center
Washington, D.C. 20057
202-687-8881
Education
Brown University
Ph.D. American Civilization, 2008
A.M. American Civilization, 2003
University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A. Religious Studies, 2001
B.J. cum laude Magazine Journalism, 2001
Imperial College of London, Fall 2000
Publications
Invited Book Review of Frances Foster Smith, ‘Til Death or Distance Do Us Part, (Oxford University Press, 2009) for Journal of African-American History (97,1-2, Spring 2012).
“The Problems Peculiar to Girls: Black Sorority Women and the Vocational Guidance Movement in Chicago, 1927-1940,” Journal of Illinois History (Autumn, 2011), peer reviewed
Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma Centennial Celebration Traveling Exhibit, 2011, exhibit writer
“Amanda Berry Smith: Pioneer for African-American Child Care,” In Yvonne Johnson, ed, Feminist Frontiers: Women who Shaped the Midwest (Truman State University Press, 2010), peer reviewed
“New Directions in Girls’ History,” Feminist Collections, Spring 2009
“Little Rock Nine,” (3000-word entry), National African-American Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
“Mary Europe,” Encyclopedia of Blacks in Europe, (New York: Greenwood Press, 2009)
Works in Progress
“South Side Girls: Race, Gender and Girlhood in a Changing Chicago,” completed manuscript
“International Friendship, Domestic Sisterhood: Girls Scouts and the Our Cabana Project,” revise and resubmit Diplomatic History
“The Hero at the Drive Thru Window: Chicago’s Black McDonald’s Operators Association and the Redefinition of Community,” chapter submitted for forthcoming edited volume on black business in Chicago, University of Illinois Press
“Finding Sacred Space: Teaching about Race and Gender,” chapter submitted for forthcoming edited volume on teaching, Routledge Press
Presentations
Conferences and Seminars
“The Black McDonald’s Owners Association: Models of Corporate Responsibility in the Age of Black Capitalism,” Business History Conference, March 2013
“Beyond Incarceration, Toward Interventions: Roundtable on Juvenile Justice,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2012
“International Friendship, Domestic Sisterhood: Girl Scouts and the Our Cabana Project” Adolescent Ambassadors: Youth Organizations and International Relations Seminar, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., 2012, competitive selection process
"Modesty on Her Cheek:" The Moorish Science Temple, Girls and Beauty,” Scholl Seminar on Women and Gender, Newberry Library, Chicago, 2012
“The Cellar Plants of Civilization: African-American Girls and Juvenile Delinquency in Great Migration Chicago,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, San Antonio, 2010
“Sisterhood is Powerful, It’s Just Not Sexy: Girls and Feminism on Television,” Annual Meeting of the American Culture/Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, 2009
“Louise de Koven Bowen’s The Colored People of Chicago: Racial Uplift and African-American Childhoods,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Albuquerque, 2008
“Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen, Race and the Teenage Female Body,” Annual
Meeting of the American Culture/Popular Culture Association, San Francisco, 2008
“The Way to Exalt the Colored Girl: The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in Chicago and the Vocational Guidance Movement, 1927-1935,” Association for the Study of African-American Life and History Meeting, Atlanta, 2006
“Why is it so hard to interest people in colored girls? Educating and employing African-American Girls, 1900-1920,” Biennial Conference of Woman and Gender Historians of the Midwest, St. Louis, 2006
Invited Talks
“African-American Women’s History: Continuity or Change over Time?” Morgan State University History Department, 2012
“Student Activism and the Changing Culture of Colleges,” University of Missouri-Columbia Office of Multicultural Affairs, 2012
“The Color of Sisterhood: African-Americans and Girls’ Organizations,” University of Mary Washington History Department/Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2012
“Women of Color and Leadership,” University of Minnesota Women’s and Gender Studies Program/University Women’s Center, 2011
Media
“More than Cookies,” Ms. Magazine, Spring 2009
“Why the Reactionary Right is so Afraid of Girl Scouts,” Ms. Magazine Blog, February 2012
“A Conversation with Kenneth Mack, author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer,” Georgetown University Forum Radio, June 2012
“50 Years After the March,” PBS affiliate documentary, interviewed Spring 2013
Future Conferences
Invited Talk: Public Accommodations, the Kennedy Administration and the Southern Business Community, March 2013
Invited Panel: 50 Years after the Dream: Harvard Kennedy School Black Policy Conference, April 2013
Paper Panels Submitted: 2013 American Studies Annual Meeting, 2014 Berkshires Conference of Women’s Historians
Teaching
Georgetown University, 2011-2012
History of African-American Women
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Grant, $500
Seminar on African-American Great Migration
Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship Grant, $500
Senior Honors Theses:
Gender and Censorship in Popular Movies, History
Community Engagement and the Washington D.C. Promise Neighborhoods Initiative, American Studies
University of Oklahoma Honors College, 2007-2011
Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors, African-American Studies
American Voices, American Culture
Our Schools, Our Selves: Narratives on Education. Power and Identity
Sex, Love and Race in American Life and Culture
Girls and Girlhood in the United States
African-American Women’s Activism
Culture, Representation and the Search for America
Independent Studies:
Young Women and Feminism, Civic Education in Oklahoma, Asian-American Studies
Graduate Advising
Committee Member, Brent Horner, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma School of Education, awarded September 2012
University of California-Santa Barbara, Fall 2006
The Souls of Black Girls: Africana Girls in the U.S. and Abroad
Brown University, 2003-2006
Freedom Song (Summer at Brown Civil Rights Leadership Institute Program)
Beyond Sugar and Spice: Girls of Color in the United States
Our Schools, Our Selves: Narratives on Education
Fellowships and Grants
Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013, $40,000
American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-20123, $30,000 (declined)
University of Alabama, Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South Research Grant, $1000
Duke University Libraries Research Grant, 2012-2013, $600
Georgetown University Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Spring 2013
Georgetown University Competitive Grant-in-Aid Award, 2012, $1500
Georgetown University Summer Faculty Research Grant, 2012, $9500
British Council/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Future of Localities Conference, expenses to London for meeting, 2011
Oklahoma Humanities Council Research Scholar Grant, 2011, $500
University of Oklahoma Matching Grant, 2011, $1250
German Marshall Memorial Fund of the United States American Fellowship, 2011
National Women’s Studies Association-Spelman College Junior Faculty Institute on Research, Theory and Practice and Women of Color (Ford Foundation funded), 2009
University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Research Council Grant, 2009, $6000
University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies Junior Faculty Writing Workshop Fellow, 2008
National Women’s Studies Association Women of Color Leadership Project Fellow, 2008
University of California-Santa Barbara Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007, $20,000
Brown University Traveling Scholar Grant, 2006, tuition waiver and fees
Brown University Dissertation Fellowship, 2006, full tuition and $18,000 (declined)
Brown University S.W. Marston Scholarship, 2004, partial stipend scholarship
Brown University Summer Support, 2003-2006, $2500-$3000
Resident Truman Scholar/Deputy Director of Leadership Programs, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, $35,000
Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship, 2000, $30,000
Awards and Honors
Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma Leadership Award, 2010
Ms. Magazine Writers Workshop for Feminist Scholars, 2009
Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life Amethyst Award, 2009
British Council Transatlantic Leadership Network 2020, Membership
(competitive process, full support to attend annual meetings in Europe and U.S.), 2008
Brown University Bernard E. Bruce Graduate College Award, 2008
Service and Leadership
Georgetown University
Martin Luther King, Jr. Week Panel, 2012
Invocation Speaker, Spring Faculty Convocation, 2012
Magis Row Identity and Sexuality Panel, 2011
Georgetown Competitive Postgraduate Fellowships Selection Committee, 2011
National and Community Service
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation Finalist Selection Committee, 2010-2013
Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Senior Scholar (mentor and policy group leader), 2007-2013
German Marshall Fund of the United States American Fellowship Selection Committee, 2011, 2012
University of Oklahoma Honors College
Undergraduate Research Day Juror, 2010
Greek Faculty Honors Night, 2008, 2010
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Candidate Preparation Committee, 2009-2011
Religion and America Faculty Search, 2008
Dean’s Annual Evaluation Committee, 2008
College Policy Committee, 2007-2008
University of Oklahoma
Muslim Students Association Peace Not Prejudice Film Festival Juror, 2010
President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Program, 2009, 2010
Adopt-a-Prof Program, 2009-2010