Don D. Fowler is an anthropologist and archaeologist in the southwestern United States. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. As a student, Fowler worked on the Glen Canyon Project, surveying the canyon for archaeological data before the Glen Canyon Dam was finished being built. The Sundance Archaeological Research Fund is just one of the archaeological projects he has directed in the Great Basin. From 1985 to 1987 Fowler was the president of the Society for American Archaeology and from 1988 to 1991 he held a Foundation Professorship from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is now the Mamie Kleberg Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology, Emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno. and sits on the advisory board of The Center for Desert Archaeology.
Awards
Distinguished Graduate Medal, University of Pittsburgh (1986) Society for American Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award (2003) Outstanding Researcher of the Year, University of Nevada, Reno (2003)
Selected bibliography
Fowler, Don D. In a Sacred Manner We Live: Photographs of the North American Indian (1972) Fowler, Don D., Robert C. Euler, and Catherine S. Fowler. John Wesley Powell and the Anthropology of the Canyon Country (1981) Fowler, Don D. The Western Photographs of John K. Hillers (1989) Fowler, Don D. A Laboratory of Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846–1930 (2010) Fowler, Don D. The Glen Canyon Country: A Personal Memoir (2011) / 978-1-60781-127-5 Fowler, Catherine S., and Don D. Fowler. The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times (2008) Cordell, Linda S. and Don D. Fowler, eds. (2005). Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century
See also
Catherine S. Fowler
References
21st-century American anthropologists
American archaeologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) University of Utah alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni University of Nevada, Reno faculty