María Cristina García, the Howard A. Newman Professor in American Studies at Cornell, is the recipient of a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced. The program supports established and emerging scholars, journalists and authors “whose work distills knowledge, enriches our culture and equips leaders in the realms of education, law, technology, business and public policy,” the foundation said. García was nominated for the fellowship in November by the late Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett, who called her “one of the foremost experts on immigration history and the impact of displaced peoples on communities, cultures, and political processes and institutions.” Full story
This article originally appeared in the Cornell Chronicle.
