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 through ethnographic research, documentary practice, and collaborative digital knowledge production.

Through interdisciplinary and community-engaged methodologies, my work combines archival research, oral history, digital storytelling, mapping, and multimedia scholarship to explore the intersections of Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and decolonial feminist praxis.

This website serves as a portfolio of my research, teaching, digital humanities projects, and public scholarship.