Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela

MARCIA OCHOA, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Introduced by PURNIMA MANKEKAR, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University

Marcia Ochoa received her Ph.D. in cultural and social anthropology from Stanford University. Ochoa's research focuses on Colombia and Venezuela, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, feminism, and queer theory.