García, María Cristina, 1960-

Maria Cristina Garcia is an American historian, currently the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. Her work focuses on the history of displaced and mobile populations in the Americas. Garcia received her B.A. from Georgetown University and her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians. She is a recipient of a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the 2010 Cornell Stephen and Margery Russell Teaching Award, the 2016 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, and the President's and Provost's Award for Excellence in research, Teaching, and Service in Diversity. She is also a former fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and a past president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (2015-2018).