- PhD Job Candidate
- Pronouns: she/they
- Email: p.michelle.ochoaa@tamu.edu
- Office: WCSS 334
- Document: CV
- Linkedin: LinkedIn
Biography
Paula Michelle Ochoa is a PhD Candidate at Texas A&M University. Ochoa is interested in researching the intersection of socially constructed boundaries created within place, space, language, race, ethnicity, culture, community, gender, class, philosophy, politics, etc. Ochoa is also interested in working with research, mentorship, and leadership programs designed to provide high-impact practices to students in academic and social settings. Ochoa holds a B.A. in Mexican American and Latino Studies and Government from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as an M.S. in Sociology from Texas A&M University.
Ochoa’s research, The Transborder Lifestyle: Studying, Parenting, and Schooling Across Borders, examines the lifestyle of people who straddle simultaneous boundaries in multiple spaces of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. She uses "transborder" in English and "transfronterize" in Spanish to describe individuals experiencing this social phenomenon. Their ethnographic study explores transborderism in the context of the Texas borderlands, where data has been collected through field observations, visual ethnography, in-depth interviews, and surveys of families with K-12 children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to attend school and their teachers. Additionally, Ochoa incorporates an autoethnographic lens based on their experience as a transborder student and their journey studying transborderism and developing the Transborder Framework.
Ochoa’s research, The Transborder Lifestyle: Studying, Parenting, and Schooling Across Borders, examines the lifestyle of people who straddle simultaneous boundaries in multiple spaces of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. She uses "transborder" in English and "transfronterize" in Spanish to describe individuals experiencing this social phenomenon. Their ethnographic study explores transborderism in the context of the Texas borderlands, where data has been collected through field observations, visual ethnography, in-depth interviews, and surveys of families with K-12 children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to attend school and their teachers. Additionally, Ochoa incorporates an autoethnographic lens based on their experience as a transborder student and their journey studying transborderism and developing the Transborder Framework.
Research Interests
- Transborder/Transfronterize/o/a* Studies
- U.S.- Mexico Borderland Studies
- Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, and Latinx Studies
- Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Studies
- Sociology of Culture
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Place & Space Meaning Making
- Intersectional Studies