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 2026 LEGACY LUNCHEON SPONSORS

1. CITGO Refining

2. Wyatt Ranches

3. Dr. Osbert Blow and Dr. Nelly Blow

4. KIII TV 3

5. KRIS TV

6. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

7. Christus Spohn Health Systems

8. HEB

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

10. IBC Bank

11. Port of Corpus Christi 

12. Mike Shaw / Military VIP

13. Oceans Behavioral Hospital

14. Ms. Barbara Canales & Mr. Doug Allison

15. American Heart Association

16. Texas A&M University-Kingsville

17. The Honorable State Representative Todd Hunter

18. American G.I. Forum of Corpus Christi

19. Texas State Aquarium

20. Kleberg Bank

21. Amisatad Community Health Center

22. Canales and Simonson, PC

23. City of Corpus Christi

24. Corpus Christi RTA

25. Hicks Automotive Group

26. Robstown Utility Systems

27. Incarnate Word Academy 

28. Linbarger Attorneys at Law 

29. Palacios Educational Consulting

30. Chemours

31. Canales & Simonson, PC

32. CC Regional Transportation Authority

33. Double Tree by Hilton

34. Del Mar College

35. Dream Team Realtor/Shirley & Raymond Gallagher

36. Mark Roach

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

38. Incarnate Word Academy
    

39. LULAC Council 1