Fanny Julissa García
Fanny Julissa García is a Honduran American oral historian contributing work to Central American Studies with a focus on applied oral history, a term she coined to describe the use of oral histories to educate, inform policy change, and support communities endangered by state-inflicted violence. Her work focuses on immigration justice, detention and incarceration, family separation, and the transnational impact of failed border policies.
She has won multiple awards for her work as an oral historian, and recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities funded fellowship from the Oral History Association to work on Separated: Stories of Injustice and Solidarity which documents the life histories of families forcibly separated parents from their children at the U.S./Mexico border. She has worked with Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change, and as an oral historian for The Path Home: Immigrants Making America project, which collects the oral histories of individuals who gained a path to citizenship after the passage of the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Oral History Review. She is a graduate of the Oral History Master of Arts program at Columbia University.
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