Roger Fouts

Roger S. Fouts (b. 1943) is an American primate researcher and co-founder of the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI) at Central Washington University. He is best known for teaching the chimpanzee Washoe to use American Sign Language, a groundbreaking project that transformed debates on animal cognition and communication. Alongside his wife Deborah Fouts, he expanded this research with other chimpanzees and became a leading advocate for great ape rights. His writings and activism link animal welfare with ethics and law.

“Excerpts from a project on Trees and Beasts” Denise Hoffman Brandt© Denise Hoffman What do we actually mean when we talk about nature? As a professor in a discipline that since the early 1970s has, mostly, claimed to practice “design with nature”—referencing Ian McHarg’s book (1969) of that title—that’s a question I have often asked. […]

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