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Michael M Brescia

  • Curator
  • Curator, Ethnohistory
  • Professor, History
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
  • Head, Research - Arizona State Museum
Contact
  • (520) 621-4895
  • Raymond H. Thompson Building, Rm. 221
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • brescia@arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. History
    • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Work Experience

  • UA National Center for Interpretation (2024 - Ongoing)
  • Southwest Center (2021 - Ongoing)
  • Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies (2021 - Ongoing)
  • James E. Rogers College of Law (2017 - Ongoing)
  • Arizona State Museum (2016 - Ongoing)
  • Department of History (2016 - Ongoing)
  • Arizona State Museum (2009 - 2016)
  • Department of History (2009 - 2016)
  • Center for Latin American Studies (2005 - Ongoing)

Awards

  • Visiting Professor and Researcher
    • Universidad de la República Uruguay, Spring 2025
    • El Colegio de San Luis, A.C., San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Fall 2019
  • Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence
    • The Stephenson Institute for Classical Liberalism, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Spring 2024
  • Al Merito Award
    • Arizona Historical Society, Fall 2023
  • Visiting Professor of History
    • University of Suffolk, Ipswich, England., Fall 2023
  • Visiting Research Scholar and Professor
    • Princeton University, Fall 2023
  • Dan Shilling Humanities Public Scholar Award
    • Arizona Humanities, Fall 2021
  • Visiting Research Fellow
    • T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Fall 2019
  • The 2018 Wayne N. Aspinall Chair in History
    • Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado, Spring 2018
  • The 2014 Jerome I. Braun Prize in Western Legal History
    • Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, headquartered in Pasadena, California., Winter 2014

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Interests

Research

Colonial Mexico, paleography and translation, early modern print culture and libraries, Catholic Church, Nineteenth-Century Mexico and the Borderlands, U.S. Southwest, living legacies of Spanish colonial and early Mexican property law, water rights

Teaching

Mexico, Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, Comparative North America, World History, Historical Method and Research

Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Intro Study of History
    HIST 301 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Intro Study of History
    HIST 301 (Fall 2024)

2022-23 Courses

  • Independent Study
    HIST 699 (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Study of History
    HIST 301 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Intro Study of History
    HIST 301 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Nat Res & Law Sp Mx Border
    HIST 442 (Fall 2020)
  • Nat Res & Law Sp Mx Border
    HIST 542 (Fall 2020)

2018-19 Courses

  • Compar History N America
    HIST 150C5 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Independent Study
    LAS 599 (Fall 2017)
  • Topics Lat American Hist
    HIST 495G (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Compar History N America
    HIST 150C5 (Fall 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

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    Guest Editor of a Special Issue of The Smoke Signal, a publication of the Tucson Corral of the Westerners.

Presentations

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    Paper presented at the History Graduate Association Symposium on Careers in History.

Reviews

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    Review Essay

Creative Productions

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    English translation of a roundtable conducted in Spanish, edited by Alex Hidalgo and Corinna Zeltsman, and sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America.

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