Fall 2009 Courses @ Wofford College click for more info

Cissy Fowler is an Assistant Professor who teaches courses in Anthropology, Public Health, and Environmental Studies at Wofford College. In her teaching, Cissy transmits scholarly information about people in their cultural, social, political, economic, and ecological surroundings with an attitude of advocacy for social justice and ecosystems health.

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Cissy's research is on multi-species interactions between people, plants, and animals at the local level and their links to regional- and global-level phenomena.  She has participated in interdisciplinary research in environmental anthropology, fire ecology, ethnobiology, ecosystems health, and medical anthropology, in Southeast Asia, Oceania, the U.S. South, and Brazil. Her current focus is on the critical study of fire science and the use of fire to manage landscapes. Cultural identity and natural resource management in Kodi (Sumba, Indonesia) was the focus of her doctoral research and continues to capture most of her attention.  Cissy currently serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Society of Ethnobiology and is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Ethnobiology.  Cissy also serves as a Commissioner of the Foothills Fire Service Area in Landrum, South Carolina.