Dr. Cynthia Fowler Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dr. Cynthia Fowler Assistant Professor of Sociology
Contact information:
Wofford College
125 Main Building
864.597.4698
fowlerct@wofford.edu
Photo Top Left:
Taking notes about a fire that burned a farmer’s cashew grove in
Bukambero in Kodi on Sumba, Indonesia
Spring 2012 Courses @ Wofford College
Cultural Anthropology & Communication (SOC 202)
Ecological Anthropology (SOC 311)
Case Studies in Public Health (SOC 493/BIO 493)
Interim 2012 Courses @ Wofford College
BIOSKETCH
Cissy Fowler is an Assistant Professor at
Wofford College, Secretary of the
Society of Ethnobiology, and co-Editor of
Ethnobiology Letters.
Cissy
conducts transdisciplinary research on society and nature. In
her fieldwork in Eastern Indonesia’s dry monsoonal tropics, she
studies the materialization of fire; that is, fire as a creative
expression of social relations and ecological perceptions. Cissy also engages in participant observation with
American mountain bikers who create meanings through their
encounters with forests mediated by technologies. In the U.S.
South, Cissy focuses on the critical study of fire
science and the use of fire to manage landscapes. Cissy also serves as a
Commissioner of the Foothills Fire Service Area.