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.