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Don Fowler
Mamie Kleberg Professor Emeritus of Anthropology & Historic Preservation,
Director of the UNR Continuing Education Program in Heritage Resources Management.
Ph.D, University of Pittsburgh.

In support of my research, I have received 65 research grants and contracts, as well as a very large research endowment to create the Sundance Archaeological Research Fund. My archaeological field research has focused on the Great Basin. My archival and library research on the history of anthropology and theory is worldwide in scope.

I have been a research associate in anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution since 1970, am a past-president of the Society for American Archaeology, and received a Distinguished Graduate Medal from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 and a Special Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Archaeologists in 1991. In 2003 I received the Society for American Archaeology's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the University of Nevada, Reno's Outstanding Researcher Award.

Selected Publications:

Fowler, D.D., and C.S. Fowler. 1991. "The Uses of Natural Man in Natural History." In Columbian Consequences, Vol. 3. The Spanish Borderlands in Pan-American Perspective, edited by D.H. Thomas, pp. 75-100. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.

Fowler, D.D.1992. "Models of Southwestern Prehistory, 1840-1914." In Rediscovering Our Past: Essays on the History of American Archaeology, edited by J.E. Reyman, pp. 16-40. Avebury Press, Glascow, Scotland.

Fowler, D.D., and D.L. Hardesty (editors). 1994. Others Knowing Others. Perspectives on Ethnographic Careers. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

Fowler, D.D. 1998. "Harvard vs. Hewett: The Contest for Control of Southwestern Archaeology, 1904-1930." In Mainstreams and Margins: Studies in the Professionalization of Archaeology, edited by A.H. Kehoe and M.B. Emmrichs. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Fowler, D.D., and D.R. Wilcox. 1999. "From Thomas Jefferson to the Pecos Conference: Changing Anthropological Agendas in the North American Southwest." In Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930, edited by E. C. Carter, II, pp. 197-223. American Philosophical Society Memoir Vol. 231, Philadelphia.

Fowler, D.D. 2000. A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Hardesty, D.L., and D.D. Fowler. 1998. "Archaeology and Environmental Change." In New Directions in Anthropology and Environment: Intersections, edited by C. Crumley, pp. 72-89. Alta Mira Press, Walnut Creek.

Wilcox, D.R., and D.D. Fowler. 2002. "The Beginnings of Anthropological Archaeology in the North American Southwest." Journal of the Southwest 44(2):121-234.

Fowler, D.D., and D. R. Wilcox (Editors). 2003. Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology: Essays on Individuals and Institutions. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Cordell, L., and D.D. Fowler (Editors). 2003. One Hundred Years of Southwestern Archaeology: The Transformation of a Discipline. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Parezo, N.J., and D.D. Fowler. 2003. "Meet Them at the Fair." Anthropology at the Louisiana Purchase International Exposition, 1904. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

Fowler, D. D., and D. R. Wilcox (Editors). 2003. Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.