Catherine S. Fowler
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1940 (age 85–86)
Catherine S. Fowler | |
|---|---|
| Born | Catherine Louise Sweeney 1940 (age 85–86) |
| Spouse | Don D. Fowler |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Comparative Numic Ethnobiology (1972) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Nevada, Reno |
Catherine "Kay" S. Fowler is an anthropologist whose work has focused on preserving the cultures of the native people of the Great Basin.[1] She earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh,[2] and from 1964 to 2007 taught at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she is now Professor Emerita.[1]
Fowler is a research associate for the Nevada State Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History where she has participated in the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records,[3] and she has served as president of the Society of Ethnobiology.[4] In 1995 she was named Outstanding Researcher of the Year at the University of Nevada, Reno.[5] In 2011, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences[6] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7] In 2012, Fowler received the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award by the Society of Ethnobiology.[8]
