Marcia Ochoa | |
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![]() Marcia Ochoa | |
Born | 9 September 1970 |
Known for | Latino Studies, Transgender studies, Queer theory, Ethnography, "Perverse Citizenship" [1] |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Stanford University (Ph.D.) [2] |
Doctoral advisor | Purnima Mankekar and Renato Rosaldo |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California,Santa Cruz Stanford University |
Marcia Ochoa (born 9 September 1970) is a United States-based professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California,Santa Cruz. [3] They are the co-founder of El/La Para TransLatinas and is credited with popularizing the term "translatina." [4]
Ochoa moved to San Francisco in 1994. [5] They co-founded El/La Para TransLatinas in 2006 in San Francisco,California. [6]
Ochoa completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in Anthropology in 2005. [7] She began teaching at the University of California,Santa Cruz in 2005,chaired the Feminist Studies department from 2014 to 2017,and currently serves as Provost of Oakes College. She is also a professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies,Social Documentation,Anthropology,Latin American &Latino Studies,and Film and Digital Media. [3]
She published her first book based on her dissertation,Queen for a Day:Transformistas,Beauty Queens and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela,in 2014 through Duke University Press. [8] It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. [9] That same year,she edited the Transgender Studies Quarterly issue "Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary". [10] She is currently the editor of GLQ:A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. [11] [12]
Following the publication of Queen for a Day,Ochoa's work focused on early colonial violence in Latin America. [13]