Professor Fisher earned her B.A. in Classical Greek from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, her M.A. in Classics from Florida State University, and her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Minnesota.  She is an archaeologist, who has excavated at numerous sites: Revolutionary War sites in Virginia; the Etruscan site at Cetamura in Italy; and numerous sites of the Classical and Bronze Age periods in Greece.  Her interests include the archaeology of connections between peoples and cultures, and cultural resource protection throughout the world.

In 2015-2016 she taught and researched in the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management at Aksum University in Aksum, Ethiopia, as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar.  Her current Fulbright project is on the connections between Greece and Ethiopia from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period.  During her Fulbright research in Greece, Professor Fisher will be affiliated with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 

Stephanie L. McNulty, Ph.D. is the Honorable John C. and Katherine Kunkel Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College, where she teaches courses on democracy, Latin American politics, and development. Her research examines the spread of participatory democracy globally. Her work links historical experiments with participatory democracy, including the Haudenosaunee, Greek city-states, and Andean governance structures, to contemporary institutions such as NYC's Civic Engagement Office, Vermont's town meetings, and Bolivia's local participatory planning tradition. Dr. McNulty is the author of several books, including The Power and Perils of Participatory Democracy: Participatory Budgeting and Democracy in Peru (Oxford University Press, 2026), which explores the effects of participatory governance on democratic governance in Peru. Dr. McNulty is a member of multiple international networks of scholars and practitioners who research and practice participatory democracy, such as the Par-City research network and People Powered. Her scholarship has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Hewlett Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the American Political Science Association. Dr. McNulty lives in Lancaster, PA--a wonderful city in Central Pennsylvania-- with her family and pets.