Melissa Ochoa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Women's and Gender Studies
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology, Texas A & M University, 2019
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Purdue University, 2009
Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations & Rhetorical Advocacy, Purdue University, 2009
Research Interests
- Sociology of Gender
- Race & Ethnic Relations
- Social Psychology
Publications and Media Placements
- Ochoa, Melissa K. & Joe R. Feagin. Catcalling. University of California Press. Under Contract
- Ochoa, Melissa K. 鈥淐olorism in the Latina Community: The Internalization of Racialized Sexism.鈥� Feminists Talk Whiteness, edited by Leigh Anne Francis and Janet Gray. Taylor and Francis Publishing. Forthcoming
- Ochoa, Melissa K. 2022. 鈥淟ife Course and Emerging Adulthood: Protestant Women鈥檚 Views on Intimate Partner Violence and Divorce.鈥� 11(4): 169-184. (2022)
- Ochoa, Melissa K. 鈥�.鈥� Retrieved May 31, 2019
- Ochoa Garza, Melissa K. & Joe R. Feagin. 2019. 鈥淪exism.鈥� in , edited by George Ritzer & Chris Rojek. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. (2019)
- Ochoa Garza, Melissa K. 鈥淯nfiltered: Male Strangers鈥� Sexist Behavior Towards Women.鈥� Pp. 59-77 in Women and Inequality in the 21st Century, edited by Brittany C. Slatton and Carla D. Brailey. New York: Routledge. (2019)
Honors and Awards
- 2022-2023 Recipient of the AAUW Fellowship to complete her research at Saint Louis University. It's AAUW's largest and oldest funding program that has supported female scholars since 1888.