Melissa Fisher is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology
and Anthropology at Georgetown University. Her research interests include class and gender in America, culture and consumption, and the anthropology of business. Her forthcoming book - Wall Street Women: Gender, Class, and Power in America - is an ethnographic historical account of the first generation of women on Wall Street. Melissa published some of her findings on Wall Street women in a volume she co-edited with anthropologist Greg Downey in 2006 entitled Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, Duke University Press. The volume brings together ethnographies which explore how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. In 2007 the volume received a book nomination from the International Political Economy Group.

Melissa is the recipient of a range of fellowships and grants. In 2006 she was an Invited Fellow at the Institute for Advance Study at Lancaster University. She will be a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Center for Organizational Research at the University of Stockholm in Sweden in May 2008. She has presented papers at The American Anthropology Meetings, The Business History Meetings and the London School of Economics. Melissa teaches courses on urban culture, class and culture in America, and the anthropology of work. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a freelance corporate anthropologist specializing in ethnographic consumer research