Previous Chair

Enrique Ochoa
2006-2008

Author and educator Enrique C. Ochoa was selected as the 2006-2007 Michi and Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair of Multicultural Studies at Cal Poly Pomona.

Ochoa is a history professor at California State University, Los Angeles. His areas of specialization include Latin American, Mexican and Central American history; the United States and Mexico border; immigration; globalization; and Latinas/os in the United States. Ochoa is the author of Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food Since 1910 and the co-editor of Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities and Activism with Gilda L. Ochoa.

He looks forward to working on a campus-community based project that combines research, teaching, and community interests in food, culture and power. Cal Poly Pomona's historic connection to agriculture and food research provides an opportunity to have the Eastern San Gabriel Valley and Pomona as a case study. Ochoa seeks to engage the compus and community in conversation about the ways global and local transformations in the production, distribution, consumption, and marketing of food interact with issues of race, class and gender.

Ochoa received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in history from UCLA.