AUTHOR, HISTORIAN, AND RESEARCHER
Margarita Ochoa
Specialist in Latin American History & Society
AUTHOR, HISTORIAN, AND RESEARCHER
Margarita Ochoa
Specialist in Latin American History & Society
BIOGRAPHY
About Margarita
Dr. Margarita R. Ochoa is 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 currently an Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University. She has also published several articles and is completing a book manuscript on Indigenous families and society in 18th-19th centuries Mexico City.
Publications
Cacicas
The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825
City Indians in Spain’s American Empire
Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica & Andean South America, 1530-1810