Directors

Founder & Director in Chief: Dr. Michelle Scalise Sugiyama – mscalise@uoregon.edu

Director of International Relations: Dr. Marcela Mendoza – mmendoza@uoregon.edu

Director of Field Research: Dr. Lawrence Sugiyama – sugiyama@uoregon.edu

 

Collaborators

Estudios Lingüísticos, Socioculturales y Etnohistóricos Sobre Pueblos del Gran Chaco Sudamericano

Spearheaded by Dr. María Belén Carpio at the Instituto de Investigaciones Geohistóricas (IIGHI)-CONICET/Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, this research group unites scholars and students from IIGHI and Universidad Católica Argentina in Argentina and the Human Animal Lab in the U.S. in the study of hunter-gatherers, ethno-linguistics, and traditional ecological knowledge of the Gran Chaco region.

Linguist Dr. María Belén Carpio (right), with Human Animal Lab co-Directors Dr. Michelle Scalise Sugiyama and Dr. Lawrence Sugiyama.

In May 2024, the research group hosted a workshop on “Diálogos entre Lingüística, Etnografía e Historia” (“Dialogues Between Linguistics, Ethnography, and History”), with Dr. Marcela Mendoza representing the Human Animal Lab. During her visit, Dr. Mendoza gave a public lecture on the colonization of the Bolivian Chaco in the 19^th century, with a focus on inter-ethnic relations in the Pilcomayo river region.

 

Research Assistants

Kieran Reilly, Biological Anthropology, class of 2020

Itzel Quiroz, Archaeology, UO class of 2020

Jesse Breeden, Psychology & Anthropology, UO class of 2020

Caryssa Dieni, Archaeology, UO class of 2020

Erica Lyon, Sociology, UO class of 2018