María Cristina García, the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. She was recognized for her outstanding teaching, mentoring, and scholarly contributions in the fields of refugee, asylum and immigration history.
Dr. García, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, holds appointments in Cornell’s department of history, the American studies program, and the Latina/o studies program, which she directs. A historian of twentieth-century U.S. history, she has focused her recent research on displaced and mobile populations. Dr. García is the editor or author of six books, including her most recent monograph, State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
A graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Dr. García earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.