Participant Info
- First Name
- Margarita
- Last Name
- Ochoa
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- margarita.ochoa@lmu.edu
- Affiliation
- Loyola Marymount University
- Website URL
- https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/history/faculty/?expert=margaritar.ochoa
- Keywords
- Colonial Mexico; Indigenous Peoples; Family and Women's History; Race/Race Relations; Law and Legal Culture
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Dr. Margarita R. Ochoa is Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. She’s a specialist in Latin American history and society. Her research examines questions of identity (gender, race, and Indigeneity), structures of power, and law and legal culture in colonial and early-national Mexico. She is co-editor of Cacicas: The Female Indigenous Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 (Univ of Oklahoma press, 2021) and City Indians in Spain’s American Empire (Sussex, 2012). She has also published several articles and is completing a book manuscript on Indigenous families and society in 18th-19th centuries Mexico City. At LMU, Dr. Ochoa teaches courses in colonial and modern Latin American topics.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Mexico; New Spain; Latin America
- Expertise by Geography
- Latin America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Law, Race, Women
