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!

WE APPRECIATE OUR 2025 LEGACY LUNCHEON SPONSORS

1. CITGO Refining

2. KIII TV 3

3. KRIS TV

4. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

5. Mike Shaw Toyota

6. Mike Shaw KIA

7. Christus Spohn Health System

8. HEB

9. Mr. Jim Akers and Mrs. Cecilia Garcia Akers

10. Port of Corpus Christi 

11. Ms. Barbara Canales & Mr. Doug Allison

12. Dr. Osbert Blow & Dr. Nelly Garcia Blow

13. Texas A&M University-Kingsville

14. Frost Bank

15. Hicks Automotive Group / Ms. Gloria Hicks

16. IBC Bank

17. NAACP Corpus Christi

18. Kleberg Bank

19. AEP Texas

20. Chemours

21. American GI Forum of South Texas, Dr. Hector P. Garcia Founding Chapter

22. Canales & Simonson, PC

23. The Honorable State Senator, Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa

24. CC Regional Transportation Authority

25. Double Tree by Hilton

26. Friends of Dr. Hector P. Garcia

27. Del Mar College

28. Corpus Christi ISD

29. Dream Team Realtor/Shirley Gallagher

30. Larry Elizondo / Mark Roach

31. State Senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa

32. Leadership Empowerment Group, Dr. Barbara Baggerly-Hinojosa

33. Incarnate Word Academy

34. The Honorable State Representative, Todd Hunter

35. LULAC Council 1