Nationally recognized Chicano Studies scholar, author, historian and Professor of History and Chicano Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Born in El Paso (Tex.) January 19, 1944. He completed his BA and MA at the University of Texas at El Paso in 1966 and 1968 respectively. He received his PhD from the University of California San Diego in 1975. From 1990 to 1992 he was a professor of History and American Studies and the Director of Ethnic Studies at Yale. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Guggenheim Foundation and an NEH Collaborative Project Grant. He has been honored in his home town of El Paso by being elected to the El Paso Writers Hall of Fame in 1996 and receiving the Southwest Book Award in 1997 for Border correspondent: selected writings and in 1999 for The making of a Mexican-American mayor, Raymond L. Telles of El Paso.
From the description of Mario T. Garcia papers 1966-[ongoing]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42004681
