The Dr. Hector P. Garcia Fellowship

The Archives and Special Collections at Bell Library is lucky enough to be the home of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers. Coming in at almost 360 linear feet—the length of a football field—and spanning the doctor’s entire 50+ year career in public life, you can imagine the trove of information and insight this collection represents. In 2018, when the papers came back from a year and a half in Maryland being processed, arranged and described, Dean Cate Rudowsky decided the Library needed to do something to highlight this truly unique and remarkable collection.

The result was the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Fellowship. The Fellowship is a $1,000 award designed to allow the recipient to travel to Bell Library and do research with the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Papers. Not only does this bring a researcher to the papers, it brings Dr. Hector to the world. By encouraging research into his collection, the Fellowship helps ensure that Dr. Hector’s work for justice and equality is remembered.

Fellows

2019 Fellow

Rosana Vanessa Gomez Pachon

Master's Thesis

DR. HECTOR P. GARCIA: A STUDY IN CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION LEADERSHIP 

2020 Fellow

Dr. Antonio Vásquez

Lecturer with the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Our Thanks to all our major donors and the hundreds of smaller ones that give to keep the Dr. Hectors message alive.!

1. KIII TV 3
2. CITGO Refining
3. Christus Spohn Health System-Corpus Christi
4. Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi
5. Texas A&M University- Kingsville
6. Del Mar College-Corpus Christi
7. Linebarger Attorney’s at Law-Corpus Christi
8. Herman & Herman Law-Corpus Christi
9. IBC Bank-Corpus Christi
10. American Bank Center-Corpus Christi
11. Fulton Construction-Corpus Christi
12. Turner/Ramirez Architects-Corpus Christi
13. HEB Coastal Bend-Corpus Christi
14. University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
15. Tony Canales Family
16. Judge Barbara Canales
17. Ed Hicks Nissan