Learning How to Learn with Dr. Marcia Chatelain

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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It’s easy for academia to become remote, unless you have a professor like Dr. Marcia Chatelain. She teaches history at Georgetown and spends a lot of her classroom minutes creating connections between way back then and right this minute and, as importantly, them and us. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner who isn’t afraid to claim her place as a Den Mother. For those reasons and more that you’ll hear, Marcia is one of our all-time favorite guests on Kelly Corrigan Wonders.

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0:00.0	When you put a midterm on the syllabus, that day everyone comes to class because you have to, it's a midterm, and I say, okay, I'm not going to do a traditional midterm, we're going to talk to each other, and they have to look on their face like what?
0:18.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wenders, I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about the role of maternal figures in the development of young adults.
0:26.0	I have two such people in my life, and boy, do I hope they have access to grown-ups like Dr. Marsha Chatlin.
0:33.0	She is a history professor at Georgetown University and appeals her prize winner, who thinks of herself as part academic, part educator, part den mother.
0:43.0	Her insights on power sharing, cancel culture, and setting up an environment in which we can become real to each other are well worth your listening minutes.
0:53.0	So join us, we'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wenders.
1:11.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wenders, I'm Kelly Corrigan, and we're continuing our live from college series sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis foundations.
1:19.0	So Georgia, my daughter, is at Georgetown, and one of her buddies, Paige from Little Rock, Arkansas, just graduated, and she was helping us out with editing over the summer.
1:28.0	And crazily, it came up that she had Dr. Marsha Chatlin, and loved her.
1:33.0	So I thought we would give the honor of introducing today's guest to intern and Georgetown grad, Paige Rayburn.
1:41.0	Hi Paige.
1:42.0	Hi Kelly, I'm so honored to be here.
1:45.0	Dr. Chatlin was my teacher, my junior year of Georgetown, and she was so inspiring to have the teacher for a history class where we learned about women's participation and leadership in the civil rights movement in the United States.
2:00.0	Was it a required class?
2:02.0	It was not. It was an elective, but she was so legendary that I knew I had to take it, and it was lucky enough to get in junior year.
2:09.0	And legendary Dr. Chatlin is a professor of history and African American studies.
2:14.0	She also won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in history for her book, Franchise, The Golden Arches in Black America.
2:21.0	Who taught you well?
2:26.0	Oh, that's such a good question.
2:28.0	I would say informally, my mom, she set such a good example.
2:33.0	There are a lot of people who have these incredible stories of their parents, but there are two things about my mom that I think carry into my teaching practice.
2:41.0	One, she was incredibly patient.
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