Catherine (Kay) Fowler is University of Nevada, Reno Foundation Professor, Emerita , at the University of Nevada, Reno where she taught anthropology from 1964 to 2008. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Utah, and was  staff ethnographer and ethnohistorian for the Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project from 1961 to 1963. She received her master’s degree and doctorate in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has been a Research Associate in Anthropology at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, since 1970.  She has served as President of the Society for Ethnobiology and the Council on Museum Anthropology, and has held numerous offices in other national and regional scholarly societies. 

She has collaborated with Native peoples in the Great Basin and the northern Southwest since 1962 on many ethnographic, ethnobiological, language, and land-issues projects.  Her research and teaching also focus on Native American art and  museums. She is currently (2010) serving her third term as a Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. She is the recipient of numerous national and regional awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Great Basin Anthropological Conference (2008) and Outstanding Researcher of the Year from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1995. 

She has authored, co-authored, or edited over 100 scholarly publications on Great Basin culture histories, Native ecologies and practices, material culture, art, and land issues. Among them are Tule Technology: Northern Paiute Uses of Marsh Resources in Western Nevada (1990) and In the Shadow of Fox Peak: An Ethnography of the Cattail-Eater Northern Paiute People of Stillwater Marsh (1992). Her most recent works include The Northern Paiute Language:  A Dictionary, to be published by the University of Utah Press (2011), and Facing Snow Mountain: Las Vegas–Pahrump–Desert Southern Paiute Culture in the Late 19^th Century, for the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service. In preparation are four edited volumes of Isabel Kelly’s ethnographic notes and material culture collections from Southern Paiute peoples in the 1930s.

Don Fowler is the  Mamie Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historic Preservation, Emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he  taught from 1964 to 2006. A native of Utah, he did undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Utah, and was a staff archaeologist on the Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project from 1957 to 1962.  He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1965.   He is a Past-President of the Society for American Archaeology, and has been a Research Associate in Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution since 1970. He has been Principal Investigator on over 70 research grants and contracts relating to archaeology, environmental issues, and heritage and archival preservation.  He is the author, co-author, or editor of over 120 research papers, monographs and books on Desert West and Southwest archaeology, the history of Western exploration and early photography, the history of social thought, and heritage resources management and ethics.  He has also served as a consultant and “talking head” for five Public TV documentaries.   

His latest books are The Glen Canyon Country, a Personal Memoir, to be published by the University of Utah Press (2011);  A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930, also published  by the University of Utah Press (2010).  

In 1986, the University of Pittsburgh awarded Fowler its Distinguished Graduate Medal. He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from the Society for American Archaeology, the Register of Professional Archaeologists, and the Great Basin Anthropological Association, among others, and was named University of Nevada, Reno Outstanding Researcher of the Year in 2003.