Cymene Howe is a cultural anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States.
She has also been active in multi-modal approaches to knowledge and public anthropology through podcasting, documentary filmmaking and installations, most notably the Okjökull memorial.
Howe has conducted anthropological field work in Nicaragua, Mexico, Iceland and the United States and she has been the recipient of several research grants, including from the National Science Foundation and The Fulbright Program.
The educational film, Not Ok: A little movie about a small glacier at the end of the world,[4] featured the voice of Jón Gnarr as Ok mountain.
In August 2019, Howe and Boyer organized the installation of a memorial to Okjökull, the first of Iceland’s major glaciers to be destroyed by climate change.