Winner:  Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825.
Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, 2022.

Best Collaborative Book Award

Editorial Board, Ethnohistory

Advisory Board, Atlantic Crossings Series, University of Alabama Press

American Historical Association

American Society for Ethnohistory

Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies

Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (GEMELA)

Illicit Relations in a Multi-Ethnic City: Emotions, Fidelity, and Economic Obligations in Colonial Mexico

'Por faltar a sus obligaciones': Matrimonio, género y autoridad entre la población indígena de la ciudad de México colonial, siglos XVIII y XIX.

Cacicas feature far and wide in the history of Spanish America, as female governors and tribute collectors and as relatives of ruling caciques—or their destitute widows. They played a crucial role in the establishment and success of Spanish rule, but were also instrumental in colonial natives’ resistance and self-definition.

Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825

Courtship, Marriage and Marriage Breakdown: Approaches from the History of Emotion (Routledge Research in Gender and History)

This volume, the first of its genre in English, brings together the pioneering work of scholars of urban Indians of colonial Latin America. An important, but understudied segment of colonial society, urban Indians composed a majority of the population of Spanish Americas most important cities. The geographic range, chronological scope, and thematic content of urban native studies is addressed by examining such topics as the role of natives in settling frontier regions, interethnic relations, notaries and chroniclers, and the continuation of indigenous governance. In spanning the entirety of the colonial period, the persistence and the creation of urban Indian identities and their contributions to colonial society is brought to the fore. Scholarly contributions include chapters by Susan Schroeder, Whither Tenochtitlan? Chimalpahin and Mexico City, 1593-1631 and David Cahill, "Urban Mosaic: Indigenous Ethnicities in Colonial Cuzco". The volume opens with commentary by John K Chance, pioneer scholar of urban Indians in Latin America and author of the highly praised Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca and is summed up in Concluding Remarks by Kevin Terraciano, author of the widely acclaimed The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Nudzahui History. The diverse themes, time periods, and geographic regions discussed herein make this illustrated book essential reading for all those engaged in  colonial and indigenous studies.

City Indians in Spain's American Empire: Urban Indigenous Society in Colonial Mesoamerica and Andean South America, 1530–1810 (First Nations and the Colonial Encounter)

Loyola Marymount University is a top-ranked national university by U.S. News and World Report, which places LMU among the top six Jesuit universities in the country and in the top six private universities in California. Founded in 1911, LMU is a Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount university with more than 7,100 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. LMU offers 56 undergraduate majors and 56 minor programs, along with 46 master’s degree programs, three doctorate programs and 12 credential/authorization programs. LMU’s intercollegiate athletics teams compete in the West Coast Conference with 14 Division I varsity sports.

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First Year Seminar:  History of Race and Gender

Colonial Latin America

Modern Latin America

Modern Mexico

Women in Colonial Latin America

Race in Colonial Latin America

Latin American Revolutions in Film

Seminar:  The Mexican Inquisition

Seminar:  Social Justice in Latin America

Dr. Ochoa is author and historian of Latin America. At Loyola Marymount University, she is a tenured Associate Professor of History and teaches courses on colonial and modern Latin American topics. Her research examines the intersections of identity (race, class, gender, and Indigeneity) with systems of power and the law in colonial and early national Mexico. She is co-editor of Cacicas: The Female Indigenous Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 (OU Press, 2021) and City Indians in Spain's American Empire (Sussex, 2012). She has published several book chapters on gender and the history of emotions and is currently completing an article, “Indigenous Women in Colonial Latin America,” for Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. In addition, Dr. Ochoa is working on an oral history project, “The Inclusive History and Images Project,” a university-wide collaborative effort seeking to recover the silenced histories of LMU’s BIPOC communities. Dr. Ochoa also serves on the Board of Editors for Ethnohistory and the Advisory Board for the Atlantic Crossings series published by the University of Alabama Press.

Dr. Ochoa is a first generation Mexican American, proud daughter of Mexican immigrants, and the first in her family to go to university.

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