María Cristina García, the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History and Latina/o Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. The citation recognizes “her service to the Society and her outstanding scholarly contributions to the fields of immigration and ethnic history.”
García said she is “so very honored to have received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society alongside her colleagues, Tyler Anbinder and Mae Ngai."
The award committee cited García as “an outstanding teacher, an exceptional mentor, and a leading scholar in the fields of refugee, asylum, and immigration history.” She served for nine years on the executive board of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, including three years as president from 2015 to 2018.
García is the author of the award-winning "USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida"; “State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change”; “The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America” and “Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada.” She has also co-edited two books, published numerous journal articles, and written op-eds for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Conversation, and more.
Her other honors include the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship and election to the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians. She is also a member of the History Advisory Committee of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.
