Catherine S. Fowler Explained

Workplaces:	University of Nevada, Reno
Discipline:	Anthropologist
Thesis Title:	Comparative Numic Ethnobiology
Thesis Year:	1972
Thesis Url:	https://www.proquest.com/openview/5325348cdc979658f0dafcb1b3444ab9/1.pdf
Birth Name:	Catherine Louise Sweeney
Spouse:	Don D. Fowler

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.

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]

Selected publications

• Fowler . Catherine S. . Bath . Joyce E. . 1981-12-01 . Pyramid Lake Northern Paiute Fishing: The Ethnographic Record . Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology . 176–186 . en . 3 . 2 . 0191-3557.
• Fowler . Catherine S. . Walter . Nancy Peterson . 1985-07-01 . Harvesting Pandora Moth Larvae with the Owens Valley Paiute . Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology . 155–165 . en . 7 . 2 . 0191-3557.
• Book: Fowler, Catherine S. . Great Basin . Dawson . Lawrence E. . 1986 . Smithsonian Institution . 978-0-16-004581-3 . D' Azevedo . Warren L. . Handbook of North American Indians . 11 . Washington . Ethnographic Basketry.
• Book: Fowler, Catherine S. . Great Basin . Liljeblad . Sven . 1986 . Smithsonian Institution . 978-0-16-004581-3 . D' Azevedo . Warren L. . Handbook of North American Indians . 11 . Washington . Northern Paiute.
• Book: Willard Z. Park's ethnographic notes on the northern Paiute of western Nevada, 1933–1940 . 1989 . University of Utah . 978-0-87480-316-7 . Fowler . Catherine S. . Anthropological papers 114 . 1 . Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Book: Fowler, Catherine S. . In the shadow of Fox Peak : an ethnography of the Cattail-eater Northern Paiute people of Stillwater Marsh . Nevada Humanities Committee . 2002 . 9781890591120 . en . 1992.
• Fowler . Catherine S. . 1992-07-01 . Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics in the Great Basin: Some proposals for the 1990s . Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology . 13–21 . en . 14 . 1 . 0191-3557.
• Book: Fowler, Catherine S. . Fowler . Don D. . 2008 . School for Advanced Research Press . 978-1-930618-95-4 . en. (Winner of the 2009 New Mexico Book Award in the Anthropology/Archaeology/Science category)^[8]
• Book: The Northern Paiute-Bannock dictionary: with an English-Northern Paiute-Bannock finder list and a Northern Paiute-Bannock-English finder list . 2012 . The University of Utah Press . 978-1-60781-030-8 . Liljeblad . Sven . Fowler . Catherine S. . Powell . Glenda . Salt Lake City, Utah.

See also

• Don D. Fowler
• Wuzzie George

References

1. Web site: 2011-05-20 . Kay Fowler Elected into AAAS . 2023-11-04 . University of Nevada, Reno . Nevada Today.
2. Web site: UNR Anthropology Faculty . University of Nevada. retrieved June 30, 2011
3. Web site: Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records . CoPar. retrieved 06-30-2011
4. Web site: Society of Ethnobiology news . 2011-06-30 . Society of Ethnobiology.
5. Web site: UNR Outstanding Researchers . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160421081053/http://www.unr.edu/cas/outstanding-researcher-award . 2016-04-21 . 2015-01-12 . University of Nevada.
6. Web site: 2011-03-05 . NAS member directory . www.nasonline.org.
7. Web site: American Academy of Arts and Sciences members . 2011-06-30 . amacad.org.
8. Web site: SAR Press Book Wins . 2011-06-30 . School for Advanced Research.