Michael M. Brescia
Office: ASM 221N Phone: 520-621-4895
Michael Brescia
Email:
 brescia@email.arizona.edu
Degree
 Ph.D. University of Arizona, 2002
Affiliation:

Associate Curator of Ethnohistory, Arizona State Museum
Associate Professor, Department of History
Interests:
 Colonial Mexico, Spanish civil law of property, Spanish and Mexican water rights, Mexican Catholicism, far northern frontier of New Spain, comparative North America, paleography and translation.
Classes:
 ANTH/GEOG/AIS/LAS/ARL 418/518 Southwest Land and Society;  HIST 495G Topics in Latin American History: Spanish and Mexican Borderlands;  HIST 396A The Nature and Practice of History;  INDV 103 (Comparative History of North America);  INDV 103 (World History Since 1500)

Current Research:

 Spanish and Mexican water rights in the Southwest; translation of a cultural history of seventeenth century Mexico.


Scholarship:

2011 (lead curator) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Arizona State Museum.
2010-2012 (lead curator) Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera. Arizona State Museum.
2010 (with W. Dirk Raat) Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas. 4th Edition.   University of Georgia Press, Athens.
2009 (with John C. Super) North America: An Introduction.   University of Toronto Press.
2007 Faith in Mystery: The Transcendence of Religious Sensibilities in Colonial Mexican Art.   In Mysterium Fidei, by Daniel Martin Díaz. La Luz de Jesus Press, Los Angeles.
2007 The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. The Public Historian 29(4):94-97.
2007 (with Guisela Asensio Lueg) Spanish translation of Harmful to the Common Good: Castas Revendedoras and Conflicts over Beef Sales in Santiago de Guatemala, 1650-1730, by Martha Few. Mesoamérica 49:1-24.
2004 Liturgical Expressions of Episcopal Power: Juan de Palafox y Mendoza and Tridentine Reform in Colonial Mexico. The Catholic Historical Review 90(3):497-518.
2004
 Spanish Water Law.   In Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J. Wishart. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
1999 Material and Cultural Dimensions of Episcopal Authority: Tridentine Donation and the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Seventeenth-Century Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico. Colonial Latin American Historical Review 8(2):207-227.
1998 (with Michael C. Meyer) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as a Living Document: Water and Land Use Issues in Northern New Mexico. New Mexico Historical Review 73(4):321-345.

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