MARGARITA R. OCHOA Loyola Marymount University Department of History 1 LMU Drive, Suite 3500, Los Angeles, CA 90045 (310) 568-6649 EDUCATION 2011

University of New Mexico, Department of History Ph.D. History Dissertation: Gender, Law, and Authority in Indigenous Mexico City, 1700-1829 Committee: Kimberly Gauderman (Chair), Linda B. Hall, Kevin Terraciano Elizabeth Q. Hutchison

2000-2002

University of New Mexico, Department of History M.A. History, minor in Political Science

1993-1998

University of California, Los Angeles B.A. History

PUBLICATIONS “‘Por faltar a sus obligaciones’: matrimonio, género y autoridad entre la población indígena de la ciudad de México colonial, siglos XVIII y XIX.” In Felipe Castro Gutiérrez, ed., Los indios y las ciudades de la Nueva España. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, 2010. Book Review of Deborah E. Kanter, Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850. In Colonial Latin American Historical Review 15:2 (2009). “Some Intricacies of Studying Colonial Nahuatl in Contemporary Mexico.” Latin American & Iberian Multidisciplinary Opinion Newsletter 22:1 (Fall 2006): 5-6. Co-Edited Books City Indians in Spain’s American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and Andean South America, 1600-1830. Co-Edited with Dana Velasco Murillo and Mark Lentz. Brighton, England: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. Text and Concordances of the Libro del cauallero Zifar (Libro del cauallero de Dios). Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional ms 11.309. Co-Edited with Anthony J. Cárdenas, Loreto Catoira, Manuel Ostos, and Jessi Aaron. Madison and New York: HSMS, 2007.

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In Progress Articles: “The (Dis)Order of Things: The Death and Legacies of Rodrigo de Paz in Colonial Mexico, 1524-1600”; “Indigenous Leadership, Gender, and Local Rule in Late-Colonial Mexico City.” FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS National Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship, 2008-09 Foreign Language Area Studies (Title VI) Summer Fellowship, Tulane University, 2007 Leadership for the Future Scholarship, National Education Association, National Council of La Raza, and National Association of Latino Elected Officials, 2002 Loyola Marymount University Summer Research Grant, BCLA, 2012 University of New Mexico The Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-10 Richard E. Greenleaf Fellowship, 2008-09; 2010-11 Ph.D. Dissertation Research Fellowship, Latin American & Iberian Institute, 2006-07; 2007-08 Research/Project/Travel Grant, Office of Graduate Studies, 2003; 2008 Research Grant, Graduate & Professional Student Association, 2003; 2005; 2007 Research Assistantship, Latin American & Iberian Institute, 2004-05; 2006-07 Ph.D. Graduate Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, 2003-05 M.A. Graduate Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, 2002-03 Foreign Language Area Studies (Title VI) Fellowship, 2002-03; 2003-04; 2004 Graduate Studies Fellowship, Center for Regional Studies, 2002-03 Graduate Assistantship, Department of History, 2000-02 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Loyola Marymount University, Assistant Professor History 398: Latin American History through Film (cross-listed: Catholic Studies) History 372: History of Early Mexico (cross-listed: Catholic Studies) History 172: Modern Latin America UNM Department of History, Graduate Assistant Medieval Europe (Fall 2003) History of New Mexico (Spring 2001) Western Civilization 101, 102 (2000-02)

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AREAS OF RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Latin America, Colonial Mexico, Ethnohistory, Urban Indians, Women and Gender, Nahuatl, Race/Ethnicity and Class, Law and Legal Culture LANGUAGES & SPECIAL SKILLS Proficiency: Spanish, Portuguese, Nahuatl Paleography and Translation: Spanish, Nahuatl CONFERENCES ORGANIZED “‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ and Gender: The Colloquium,” April 9-10, 2009, Albuquerque, NM. Conference Creator and Co-Organizer Presenter: “A Cacica for Mother-in-Law: Urban Indian Crime, Punishment, and Cultural Continuity in Late-Colonial Mexico City.”

SESSIONS ORGANIZED American Society for Ethnohistory, October 2011, Pasadena, CA. “Culture in Possessing: Land, Elders, and Authority in Eighteenth-Century Mexico City.” American Society for Ethnohistory, October 2009, New Orleans, LA. “Marriage, Power, and Authority: Urban Indians in Late-Colonial and Early National Mexico City, 1692-1829.” Latin American Studies Association, June 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “Litigious Identities: Native Families in Late Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1829.” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, January 2007, Santa Fe, NM. “Witchcraft, Superstition, and Pacts with the Devil: Gender Relations in Late-Colonial Mexico.” CONFERENCE PAPERS and INVITED PRESENTATIONS American Society for Ethnohistory, November 2012, Springfield, MO. “Indigenous Leadership in Late-Colonial Mexico City.” History Department, April 2012, Loyola Marymount University “Same Documents, Different Questions: Interpreting the Gendered Past of Early Latin America.” 3

Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Park City, UT, March 2012. “Indigenous Leadership in Late-Colonial Mexico City.” “The New Conquest History and its New Philology,” Department of History, CSU Bakersfield. January 24, 2012. “Alliance-Building and the Conquest of Mexico,” Guest Lecture, History of Colonial Mexico, Department of History, CSU Bakersfield. January 24, 2012. American Historical Association and CLAH, Chicago, IL, January 2012. “Nahua Mexico City: Bilingualism, Households, and Community in the Viceregal Capital, 1692-1806.” Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Querétaro, Mexico, October 2010. “Autoridad indígena en la ciudad de México colonial, siglos XVIII y XIX.” American Historical Association and CLAH, New York, NY, January 2009. “Urban Marriage: Natives in Late Colonial Mexico City, 1692-1829.” Coloquio Indios en ciudades novohispanas, UNAM, Mexico City, October 2008. “Familia, matrimonio y autoridad entre la población indígena de la ciudad de México colonial, siglos XVIII y XIX.” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, March 2004. “Images of War: A Picture Postcard Craze during the Mexican Revolution.” Home on the Range Colloquium, Albuquerque, NM, December 2003. “Women and Society in Colonial New Mexico: Gender, Memory, and the Ways in which People Mark Space.” PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Reader/Editorial Staff, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, 2008-09. Project Research Assistant, Spanish Colonial Research Center, UNM (in partnership, National Park Service), 2008-09. Library Services Coordinator, University Research Library (Kolligian Library), University of California, Merced, 2006.

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