Catherine S. Fowler | |
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Born | Catherine Louise Sweeney 1940 (age 84–85) |
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]