Jennifer Saracino
- Assistant Professor, Art
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-7570
- Art Building & Art Museum, Rm. 110
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- jsaracino@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. Art History and Latin American Studies
- Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Shifting Landscapes: Depictions of Environmental & Cultural Disruption in the Mapa Uppsala of Mexico-Tenochtitlan
- M.A. Art History
- Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Pedagogy and Artistic Practice at the Colegio de Santa Cruz: A Comparative Study of the Florentine Codex and Badianus Herbal
- B.A. Art History
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
- The Exhibition of Colonial Latin American Art in the United States: 1940-present
Work Experience
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2021 - Ongoing)
- Flagler College (2018 - 2021)
- Loyola University New Orleans (2016 - 2017)
- Tulane University (2014 - 2018)
- Tulane University (2010 - 2014)
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (2008 - 2010)
Awards
- Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship
- The Huntington Library, Spring 2024
- The Huntington Library, Fall 2023
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2025-26 Courses
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Before the Americas: Art
ARH 318A (Fall 2025) -
Topics In Museum Studies
ARH 500 (Fall 2025) -
Topics in Museum Studies
ARH 400 (Fall 2025)
2024-25 Courses
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Internship
ARH 493 (Summer I 2025) -
Art+Cult Renaissc Europe
ARH 314 (Spring 2025) -
Independent Study
ARH 499 (Spring 2025) -
Independent Study
ARH 599 (Spring 2025) -
Precolumbian: Aztecs and Incas
ARH 418A (Spring 2025) -
Precolumbian: Aztecs and Incas
ARH 518A (Spring 2025) -
Before the Americas: Art
ARH 318A (Fall 2024) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 480 (Fall 2024) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 580 (Fall 2024)
2022-23 Courses
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Surv West Art:Renais-Mod
ARH 202 (Summer I 2023) -
Intro to Precolumbian Art
ARH 318A (Spring 2023) -
Precolumbian: Aztecs and Incas
ARH 418A (Spring 2023) -
Precolumbian: Aztecs and Incas
ARH 518A (Spring 2023) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 480 (Fall 2022) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 580 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Surv West Art:Renais-Mod
ARH 202 (Summer I 2022) -
Intro to Precolumbian Art
ARH 318A (Spring 2022) -
Precolumbian: Aztecs and Incas
ARH 418A (Spring 2022) -
Precolumbian: Aztecs and Incas
ARH 518A (Spring 2022) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 480 (Fall 2021) -
Topics In Art History
ARH 580 (Fall 2021)
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Saracino, J. (2023). “Indigenous Artistic Practice & Collaboration at the Colegio de Santa Cruz in Mexico City (1534-1575)”. In Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America(pp n/a). University Press of Florida.
- Saracino, J. (2021). Staking Claims on Native Lands: The Symbolic Power of Indigenous Cartographic Conventions in the Ayer Map of Teotihuacan Mexico (1560) and Its Copies. In Mapping Nature Across the Americas(pp 19-40). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Presentations
- Saracino, J. (2024, July 3).
“Mapping an Indigenous Merchant Community in Sixteenth-Century Mexico City (c. 1540)” in Reading Communal Objects through Crises in the Premodern World I: Mapping and Defining Traces of Crises, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 3, 2024.
. International Medieval Congress. Leeds, UK: International Medieval Congress. - Saracino, J. (2024, July 24-31).
“Nahua Relationships to Land & Water in the Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (c. 1540)” in Indigeneities: Land, Labor, and Desire, Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, México, July 24-31, 2024.
. Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas, Indigeneities: Land, Labor, and Desire. Tepoztlán, Mexico: Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. - Saracino, J. (2024, November).
“The Uppsala Map and Visual Discourse in Early Colonial Mexico City,” in The Southwest Seminar: Consortium on Colonial Latin America, University of Arizona, Nov. 1, 2024
. The Southwest Seminar: Consortium on Colonial Latin America. The University of Arizona: The Southwest Seminar: Consortium on Colonial Latin Americ. - Saracino, J. (2021, November). “Translating Nature: An Analysis of the 1552 Badianus Herbal of Mexico-Tenochtitlan”. American Society for Ethnohistory. Duke University (virtual): American Society for Ethnohistory.
- Saracino, J. (2021, October). Brown bag for School of Art “Translating Nature: An Analysis of the 1552 Badianus Herbal of Mexico-Tenochtitlan”. University of Arizona Art History Department Brown Bag. Virtual - Zoom: University of Arizona Art History Department.
