Kent Fowler, University of Manitoba

Research

social complexity ancient states economics archaeological sciences Zulu Kingdom South Africa cattle domestication

Latest funding

The history and genetics of African cattle domestication: Insights from southern African cattle breeds
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$71,979
Between kings and commoners: An integrated approach to the political economy of the Zulu Kingdom
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$159,780
Between kings and commoners: An integrated approach to the political economy of the Zulu Kingdom
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$239,731

All 6 grants and awards

The history and genetics of African cattle domestication: Insights from southern African cattle breeds

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Fowler, Kent

Keywords: cattle; domestication; ancient DNA; Africa; Southern Africa; mitochondrial DNA

$71,979

Between kings and commoners: An integrated approach to the political economy of the Zulu Kingdom

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fowler, Kent D.

Keywords: social complexity; ancient states; economics; archaeological sciences; Zulu Kingdom; South Africa

$159,780

Between kings and commoners: An integrated approach to the political economy of the Zulu Kingdom

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fowler, Kent D.

Keywords: social complexity; ancient states; economics; archaeological sciences; Zulu Kingdom; South Africa

$239,731

The rural provisioning of nineteenth century Zulu capitals, South Africa: Insights from ceramic compositional analyses

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Fowler, Kent D.

$74,978

Nature of early urban neighbourhoods in the Southern Levant: early Bronze Age at Tell es-Safi

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Partnership Grants

Keywords: archaeology; urbanism; early Bronze Age; Near East; Levant; complex societies; states

$2,694,791

Materializing identity: the influence of social networks on pottery production and the expression of Zulu identity in southeast Africa

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Fowler, Kent D.

Keywords: group identity; pottery technology; chaines operatoires; design grammar analysis; ethnoarchaeology; Zulu; Nguni; South Africa

$122,100

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: social complexity Dear Professor Fowler, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on social complexity connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "The history and genetics of African cattle domestication: Insights from southern African cattle breeds" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]