Virginia Ochoa-Winemiller

Virginia Ochoa-Winemiller is a professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino studies at New Jersey City University. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Louisiana State University. As both an archaeologist and cultural geographer, Dr. Ochoa-Winemiller has conducted research in Latin America including several places in the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, and Honduras. Her research interests include spatial analysis, geographic information systems, ethnic and food geography, ethnoarchaeology,...See more

Virginia Ochoa-Winemiller is a professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino studies at New Jersey City University. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Louisiana State University. As both an archaeologist and cultural geographer, Dr. Ochoa-Winemiller has conducted research in Latin America including several places in the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, and Honduras. Her research interests include spatial analysis, geographic information systems, ethnic and food geography, ethnoarchaeology, pottery analysis and production, prehistoric households and domesticity, settlement patterns, social stratification, and origins of urbanization in Middle America. See less