Melissa Fisher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University. Her book - Wall Street Women (Duke University Press, 2012) is an historical ethnography of the first generation of women on Wall Street (1950s through the recent financial crisis).

Melissa published some of her findings about 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 has also published her work in several books and journals, including the journal City and Society (Winter 2010).

Melissa received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University; Her B.A. is from Barnard College. In 2006 she was a Fellow at the Institute for Advance Study at Lancaster University. In 2009 Melissa spent time as an Invited Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm Center for Organizational Research (SCORE) at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. Melissa is currently an invited member of "Govermark" - a network of international scholars engaged in research on market actors as policy actors. In August 2010 she was one of the keynote speakers at the Critical Finance Conference at the University of Amsterdam.

For the past decade Melissa has also worked as a business anthropologist-consultant for a range of corporate and non-for-profit organizations, including Cultural Discoveries at BBDO Worldwide Advertising as well as the National Council for Research on Women in New York City. Her new project focuses on feminism, politics, gender mainstreaming and the marketplace.