Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. Her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for its examination of the intersection of the post-1968 civil rights struggle and the rise of the fast food industry. She also authored South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration which reimagined the mass exodus of black Southerners to the urban North from the perspective of girls and teenage women. Dr. Chatelain earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Masters and PhD from Brown University.