Catherine S. Fowler

Catherine S. Fowler
Born
Catherine Louise Sweeney

1940 (age 83–84)
SpouseDon D. Fowler
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisComparative Numic Ethnobiology (1972)
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropologist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity 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]

  1. ^ a b "Kay Fowler Elected into AAAS". University of Nevada, Reno. Nevada Today. 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
  2. ^ "UNR Anthropology Faculty". University of Nevada. retrieved June 30, 2011
  3. ^ "Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records". CoPar. retrieved 06-30-2011
  4. ^ "Society of Ethnobiology news". Society of Ethnobiology. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
  5. ^ "UNR Outstanding Researchers". University of Nevada. Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  6. ^ "NAS member directory". www.nasonline.org. 2011-03-05.
  7. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences members" (PDF). amacad.org. Retrieved 2011-06-30.