John Michael Francis (born 1968) is a Canadian historian.

Francis was born in 1968 and raised inAlberta.^[1][2]

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in history, with honors, as well as a Master of Arts in the same subject, from theUniversity of Alberta.^[3] He then completed a PhD at theUniversity of Cambridge in 1998.^[3][4] Francis taught at theUniversity of North Florida from 1997 to 2012, when he joined theSt. Petersburg campus of theUniversity of South Florida as Hough Family Chair of Florida Studies. Between 2016 and 2020, Francis also served as chair of the USF Department of History and Politics.^[4] In September 2021,Ron DeSantis appointed Francis to a two-year term on the Florida Historical Commission.^[5] In October 2021, Francis was awarded the Officer’s Cross of theOrder of Isabella the Catholic byFelipe VI of Spain.^[6][7]

Francis founded a digital archive, La Florida, in 2018.^[8] The archive won the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation's 2024 Florida Preservation Award for communications and media.^[9]

• Francis, J. Michael (2015).St. Augustine America's First City: A Story of Unbroken History & Enduring Spirit. Editions du Signe.ISBN 9782746832206.^[10]
• Francis, J. Michael; Kole, Kathleen M. (2011).Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan and the Guale Uprising of 1597. North American Archaeology Fund.ISBN 9781939302205.^[11]
• Francis, J. Michael (2007).Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest. Pennsylvania State University Press.doi:10.5325/j.ctt7v626.ISBN 9780271029368.^[12]
• Francis, J. Michael (2005).Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. ABC-CLIO.ISBN 9781851094219.

• Living people
• Canadian expatriates in the United Kingdom
• Historians of Florida
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• University of Alberta alumni
• University of North Florida faculty
• University of South Florida faculty
• Recipients of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
• Digital archivists
• Historians from Alberta
• Historians of Colonial North America
• 21st-century Canadian historians
• Canadian expatriate academics in the United States
• 20th-century Canadian historians
• Historians of Colombia
• 1968 births
• Canadian archivists

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