Don D. Fowler is an anthropologist and archaeologist in the southwestern United States. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah

University of Utah

The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

 and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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. As a student Fowler worked on the Glen Canyon Project, surveying the canyon for archaeological data before the dam was 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

Society for American Archaeology

The Society for American Archaeology is the largest organization of professional archaeologists of the Americas in the world. The Society was founded in 1934 and today has over 7000 members. The Society holds an annual conference and publishes the flagship journal of American archaeology,...

 and from 1988 to 1991 he held a Foundation Professorship from the University of Nevada, Reno

University of Nevada, Reno

The University of Nevada, Reno , is a teaching and research university established in 1874 and located in Reno, Nevada, USA...

. He is now the Mamie Kleberg Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology, Emeritus at the University of Nevado, Reno. and sits on the advisory board of The Center for Desert Archaeology.

Awards

• Distinguished Graduate Medal, University of Pittsburgh
  University of Pittsburgh
  The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
  
   (1986)
• Society for American Archaeology
  Society for American Archaeology
  The Society for American Archaeology is the largest organization of professional archaeologists of the Americas in the world. The Society was founded in 1934 and today has over 7000 members. The Society holds an annual conference and publishes the flagship journal of American archaeology,...
  
   Lifetime Achievement Award (2003)
• Outstanding Researcher of the Year, University of Nevada, Reno
  University of Nevada, Reno
  The University of Nevada, Reno , is a teaching and research university established in 1874 and located in Reno, Nevada, USA...
  
  (2003)

Selected Bibliography

• Fowler, Don D. In a Sacred Manner We Live: Photographs of the North American Indian (1972) ISBN 0-8271-7202-8
• 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) ISBN 0-87474-416-4
• Fowler, Don D. A Laboratory of Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846–1930 (2010) ISBN 978-1-60781-035-3
• Fowler, Don D. The Glen Canyon Country: A Personal Memoir (2011) ISBN 978-1-60781-134-3 / 978-1-60781-127-5
• Fowler, Catherine S., and Don D. Fowler. The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times (2008) ISBN 978-1-930618-95-4
• Cordell, Linda S. and Don D. Fowler, eds. (2005). Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century ISBN 0-87480-825-1