Jennifer Saracino

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Saracino, J. (2024).

  The Space between Franciscans and Nahuas: Representations of Sixteenth Century Mexico’s Landscape

  . In Landscape and Languages. American Academy of Franciscan History.
• Saracino, J. (2023).

  The Badianus Herbal and Forced Indigenous Labor: Art, Land, and Nahua Knowledge in Post-Conquest Central Mexico

  . In Plantation Knowledge (tentative). State University of New York Press, Albany.
• Saracino, J. R. (2025). The Badianus Herbal and Forced Indigenous Labor: Art, Land, and Nahua Knowledge in Sixteenth-Century Central Mexico. In Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange Since 1500(pp 57-83). State University of New York Press.
• 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.

Journals/Publications

• Saracino, J., & Mundy, B. E. (2021). Dating the Mapa Uppsala of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Imago Mundi, 73(Issue 1). doi:10.1080/03085694.2021.1835303
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  The Mapa Uppsala is the earliest known map of sixteenth-century Mexico City that was painted by indigenous artists after the city’s takeover by Spanish forces. It is one of the few indigenous-produced documents about the city and its environs from this time period. While the traditional scholarly consensus has been that the map dates to c.1554, we derive evidence from an examination of the original map to argue for a creation date of c.1537–1541. This revised date, combined with the map’s high degree of topographical and chorographical precision, means that the map offers a snapshot of the city’s urban development and ecological changes at an earlier point in its history than has been acknowledged.

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. (2025, April).

  Glyphs as Place-Making in the Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (ca. 1540)

  . Society for American Archaeology. Denver, CO.
• Saracino, J. (2025, March).

  Seasonality and Time in the Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (ca. 1540)

  . Renaissance Society of America. Boston.
• Saracino, J. (2025, November).

  "Water Knowledge and Political Power in the Uppsala Map of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (c. 1540)"

  . Arizona Mesoamericanists Southwest Meeting. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University and ASU Teotihuacan Research Laboratory.
• Saracino, J. (2025, October).

  The View of Mexico City from Tlatelolco in the Uppsala Map (c. 1540)

  . American Society for Ethnohistory. San Antonio.
• 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.

Creative Works

• Episode 12: Curating the Future: Rujeko Hockley; Podcast; Race/Remix, The University of Arizona; September 2025; Race/Remix
• Episode 11: When Love Over Rules: Hank Willis Thomas; Podcast; The Racial Justice Studio, The University of Arizona; June 2025; Race/Remix Podcast