Awards and Honors
Recent honors and awards:
- Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
- Andrew Carnegie Fellow
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Society of American Historians
- President’s and Provost’s Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service in Diversity
- Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, Cornell University
- Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
Publications
Books
- State of Disaster: The Failure of US Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
- The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (University of California Press, 2006).
- Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (University of California Press, 1996).
Edited Books
- Whose America? US immigration policy since 1986 (with Maddalena Marinari), University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- A Nation of Immigrants reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (with Maddalena Marinari and Madeline Hsu), University of Illinois Press, 2019.
Books in Progress
- Origin Stories: Myth and History in the American Immigration Experience (under contract)
Select recent articles, book chapters, and public access articles
- "A Nation of Immigrants, A Nation of Refuge," in New Narratives on the Peopling of America, ed. T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Delano Alonso (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2024)
- Co-author of "#Microsyllabus: Immigration Enforcement and the US-Mexico Border," Radical History Review's Abusable Past Blog.
- "Does the United States need a Climate Refugee Policy?" Historical Climatology, April 2019.
- "National (In)security and the 1996 Immigration Act,” Modern American History, vol.1, no.2 (July 2018): 233-236.
- Co-author #ImmigrationSyllabus
Responsibilities
Director, Latino Studies Program
In the news
- María Cristina García receives a Lifetime Achievement Award
- Engaged Opportunity Grants connect students with hands-on community projects
- Death of Pope Francis marks end of historic papacy
- Weiss teaching awards honor exceptional faculty
- Book: Policymakers are failing ‘climate refugees’
- Amid refugee announcement, Biden seeks to relieve a backlogged asylum system
- White House acknowledges ‘right to stay home’ for climate migrants
- Despite refugee boost and family reunification, Biden has ‘long road to go’
- Even with SCOTUS win, Dreamers are still vulnerable
- With executive order, Trump advances restrictive policies for immigrants, refugees
- Migrations initiative announces cross-campus awards
- Garcia, Burrow receive inaugural faculty diversity award
- Grants seed social science research, conferences
- Climate change explored as ‘threat multiplier’ in new podcast episode
- History prof plays role in new Statue of Liberty Museum
- Africana hosts talk on climate change and its impact in Africa
- Climate Refugees
- Garcia briefs D.C. policymakers on the history of refugee policy
- Conference explores migration, celebrates Wason Collection centennial
- How the American asylum bureaucracy grew
- García book explores history, complexities of U.S. refugee policy
- Migration, Forced by Climate Change
- Four faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Historians launch Immigration Syllabus website
- Reunion 2016
- Migration, immigration and refugees today
- María Cristina García wins 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
- Humanists offer critical perspective on climate change
Courses - Spring 2026
- HIST 2001 : Supervised Reading - Undergraduate
- HIST 3002 : Supervised Research - Undergraduate
- HIST 8004 : Supervised Reading