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
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
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
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Intro Study of History
HIST 301 (Fall 2025)
2024-25 Courses
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Intro Study of History
HIST 301 (Fall 2024)
2022-23 Courses
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Independent Study
HIST 699 (Fall 2022) -
Intro Study of History
HIST 301 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Intro Study of History
HIST 301 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Nat Res & Law Sp Mx Border
HIST 442 (Fall 2020) -
Nat Res & Law Sp Mx Border
HIST 542 (Fall 2020)
2018-19 Courses
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Compar History N America
HIST 150C5 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Independent Study
LAS 599 (Fall 2017) -
Topics Lat American Hist
HIST 495G (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Compar History N America
HIST 150C5 (Fall 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- More infoGuest Editor of a Special Issue of The Smoke Signal, a publication of the Tucson Corral of the Westerners.
Presentations
- More infoPaper presented at the History Graduate Association Symposium on Careers in History.
Reviews
- More infoReview Essay
Creative Productions
- More infoEnglish translation of a roundtable conducted in Spanish, edited by Alex Hidalgo and Corinna Zeltsman, and sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America.
