Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
Dr. Fisher is an Assistant Professor of anthropological archaeology at the University of South Carolina who studies the deep histories of environmental justice conflicts through community-engaged archaeology. Since 2013, she has been conducting research in and with the community of Yaxunah, Yucatán, Mexico. Her research investigates the historical-ecological dynamics of colonial and modern cattle farming in Yucatán, as well as the history of gold mining in the Carolinas. Her research interests also include the entangled histories of global food systems, interactions among Indigenous and colonial ecological knowledges, and the application of archaeological approaches to environmental justice conflicts.
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