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. CITGO Refining

2. KIII TV 3

3. KRIS TV

4. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

5. Christus Spohn Health System

6. HEB

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

8. Port of Corpus Christi 

9. Ms. Barbara Canales & Mr. Doug Allison

10. Black Chamber of Commerce

11. Dr. Osbert Blow & Dr. Nelly Garcia Blow

12. Frost Bank

13. Hicks Automotive Group / Ms. Gloria Hicks

14. IBC Bank

15. Kleberg Bank

16. Mattress Firm South Texas 

17. The Honorable State Representative, Abel Herrero

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

19. Turner | Ramirez Architects

20. Texas A&M University-Kingsville

21. Valero

22. American Federation of Teachers

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

24. Canales & Simonson, PC

25. CC Regional Transportation Authority

26. Chemours

27. N.A.A.C.P. Corpus Christi

28. Del Mar College Foundation

29. Del Mar College Mexican American Studies and the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education DMC Chapter

30. Dream Team Realtor/Shirley Gallagher

31. Larry Elizondo

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

33. Linebarger Attorneys at Law

34. Incarnate Word Academy

35. The Honorable State Representative, Todd Hunter

36. LULAC Council 1

37. Mark Roach