Welcome

I am Dr. Lourdes Schmader, a scholar of Digital Humanities, Indigenous feminisms, Latin American Studies, and environmental humanities. I earned my PhD in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies from the University of Miami in 2026.

My research examines Indigenous women’s resistance to extractivist development in the Ecuadorian Amazon, with particular attention to environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and decolonial feminist praxis.

Through ethnographic research, oral history, documentary filmmaking, and digital storytelling, I study how Indigenous Kichwa women mobilize collective forms of care, memory, and political organizing in response to extractivism and epistemic erasure.

This website features my research, teaching, documentary work, digital humanities projects, and public scholarship.