A five-part series developed and taught by Dr. Michael M. Brescia, Curator of Ethnohistory and Professor of History
When
October 13, 20, 27, Nov 3, 10, 2027
9:30-11:30 AM (with a break at the halfway point)
In person in ASM Room 309 (limited space) or on Zoom
Details to come.
$200 members/$230 non-members in person (includes campus parking, coffee and light snacks)
$150 members/$180 non-members on Zoom
Amount paid over $120 is a tax-deductible gift.
Reserve your space now now by contacting Darlene Lizarraga at 520-626-8381 or dfl@arizona.edu.
Payment won't be due until August 2027
About Your Instructor
Dr. Michael Brescia is the Curator of Ethnohistory in the Arizona State Museum and has faculty affiliations with the Department of History, the James E. Rogers College of Law, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, the Southwest Center, and the National Center for Interpretation, at the University of Arizona. He teaches a wide-range of courses, such as Mexican history, Comparative History of North America, World History, Southwest Land and Society, and historical research methods. Michael is the co-author of two books that examine the broader historical forces that have shaped our continent from precolumbian times to the present: the fourth edition of Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas (with W. Dirk Raat, University of Georgia Press, 2010), and North America: An Introduction (with John C. Super, University of Toronto Press, 2009). In addition to his books, Michael's research has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals, including the Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Western Legal History, The Public Historian, and Journal of the Southwest, among others. He has served as lead curator of three museum exhibitions: the award-winning Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera, Intimacy of Faith: Retablos and Ex-Votos from Mexico, and The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, as well as smaller exhibits that display and interpret a discrete number of objects, including Law and Continuity in Early Independent Mexico (Special Collections, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, University of Arizona), and Curator’s Choice: La religiosa en soledad [The Nun in Solitude] (Arizona State Museum). Michael’s research has been supported over the years by several external funding agencies, including, for example, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Southwestern Mission Research Center (SMRC), and the Arizona Historical Records Advisory Board. He also has been a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico and Canada, a Visiting Research Fellow in the T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, a Visiting Professor and Researcher at El Colegio de San Luis, A.C., in the city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, and, in 2015, he held the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Research Fellowship in the Autry Museum of the American West (L.A., Calif.).