Jennifer Saracino, Ph.D.

Dr. Jennifer Saracino is an assistant professor of Art History. Her research focuses on Indigenous pictorial and cartographic documents in early colonial Mexico City.

Her work has appeared in the journals Imago Mundi and Artl@s Bulletin as well as the edited volumes Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange since 1500 (SUNY Press, 2025), Collective Creativity and Artistic Agency in Colonial Latin America (University of Florida, 2023), and Mapping Nature Across the Americas (University of Chicago, 2020).

Her book Mapping an Indigenous Future: The Uppsala Map of Colonial Mexico City (University of Texas Press, 2027) focuses on the earliest known map of Mexico City painted by Indigenous artists after Spanish invasion. Her research and scholarship have been supported with fellowships from the Huntington Library, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, the Newberry Library, the American Society for Environmental History, and the John Carter Brown Library. Dr. Saracino received her joint PhD in Art History and Latin American studies from Tulane University.

At the University of Arizona, Dr. Saracino offers Before the Americas: Art of the Aztec, Maya, and Inka, Global Renaissance, Mesoamerican Manuscripts, Colonial Latin American Art, and Pre-Columbian: Aztecs and Incas.