Cinthya Ammerman, Dr.

Dr. Cinthya Ammerman Muñoz is an interdisciplinary scholar from Ngulu Mapu, ancestral Mapuche homelands in southern Chile. Her research and teaching focus on hemispheric Indigenous relations across the Americas and Indigenous land-defense movements.

Dr. Ammerman’s publications span pedagogical interventions in Native American Studies, plant-human migration entanglements, and digital humanities methodologies. Her recent publication, “A Madi Salve for Settler-Colonial Ruptures,” in Plants Beyond Borders, turns to the transhemispheric migration of madia sativa for lessons on Indigenous connectivity and belonging beyond settler-colonial borders and binaries.

She serves on the steering committee of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute, which supports Indigenous-led food sovereignty, ecological education, and cultural revitalization. She also serves on the board of Maple Microdevelopment, an organization that supports community-led economic development in southern Chile.