B.A., History, University of Texas at El Paso, 1966
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Mario T. Garcia
Short Vita
B.A., History, University of Texas at El Paso, 1966
M.A. History, University of Texas at El Paso, 1968
Ph.D. History, University of California, San Diego, 1975
Disssertation: “Obreros: The Mexican Workers of El Paso, 1900-1920”
Positions Held:
(Current) Professor of Chicano Studies and History, 1975-2014
Professor of History and American Studies and Director of Ethnic Studies, Yale University, 1990-92
Visiting Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University, 1988-89
Instructor of Chicano Studies, San Diego State University, 1970-74
Instructor of History, San Jose State University, 1969-70
Instructor of History, University of Texas at El Paso, 1968-69
Major Publication (books):
Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 (Yale University Press, 1981)
Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 (Yale University Press, 1989)
Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona (University of California Press, 1994)
The Making of a Mexican American Mayor: Raymond L. Telles of El Paso ( Texas Western Press, 1998)
Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman with Frances Esquibel Tywoniak (University of California Press, 2000)
Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography (University of Texas Press,2000)
Padre: The Spiritual Journey of Fr. Virgil Cordano (Capra Press, 2005)
Católicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History (University of Texas Press, 2008)
Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice (The University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America (The University of North Carolina Press, 2014)
Edited Volumes:
Peoples of Color in the American West edited with Sucheng Chan, Douglas Daniels, Mario T. Garcia, and Terry Wilson (D.C. Heath, 1994)
Ruben Salazar, Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970 ( University of California Press, 1995)
Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings, co-edited with Alma M. Garcia (Routledge, 1997).
Bridging Cultures: An Introduction to Chicano/Latino Studies (Kendall/Hunt, 2000)
The Gospel of César Chávez: My Faith in Action (Sheed & Ward, 2007)
A Dolores Huerta Reader (University of New Mexico Press, 2008)
Chicano Liberation Theology: The Writings and Documents of Richard Cruz and Católicos Por La Raza (Kendall/Hunt, 2009)
The Chicano Movement: Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2014)
Forthcoming:
Books In Press
“Viva La Raza! Testimonios of the Chicano Movement in Los Angeles,” (Univ. of California Press, 2015)
Books in Progress
“Presente! A Biography of Fr. Luis Olivares”
Major Awards and Fellowships:
NEH Summer Grant, 1975; $5,000
Fellow, Center for the Study of the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1978-79; $25,000; fellowship for academic year
Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1982-83; $25,000; on leave for academic year.
Fellow, WoodrowWilsonCenter, 1984; $25,000; on leave from Jan, 1984 to August, 1984
Ford Foundation Grant, 1985; $80,000 for a study of the English Only Movement in Historical Perspective
NEH Collaborative Grant, 1990; $50,000 for a collaborative study with three other historians of a comparative history of Latinos in the United States
Guggenheim Fellow, 1992-93; $25,000; on leave for academic year
Elected to the El Paso Writers Hall of Fame, 1996.
Southwest Book Award, 1981, for: Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920.
Southwest Book Award, 1989, for Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology & Identity, 1930-1960
Southwest Book Award, 1994, for Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona
Southwest Book Award , 1995, for my edited volume of Ruben Salazar, Border Correspondent: SelectedWritings, 1955-1970.
Southwest Book Award, 1998, for The Making of a Mexican American Mayor: Raymond L. Telles of ElPaso.
Teacher of the Year Award, UC Santa Barbara, 2002
Nominated and selected as an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturers