Professor Guengerich is an archaeologist whose research explores how human beings relate to the places and spaces around them, including the architecture that they build and the natural environments that they modify, use, develop, and help create. She directs ongoing research in eastern highland Peru, in the basin of the Amazon River, which explores how peoples’ relationship to cloud forest environments changed over time, particularly following conquest by the Inka Empire in 1450AD. Professor Guengerich also has studied monumental public sculpture in the Tiwanaku civilization (500-1000CE) and differences in house architecture and the nature of private space across history, and she is also interested in the role of comics, graphic novels, and other media in archaeology, and in the role that archaeology can play in sustainable tourism and community development.