She was the recipient of the Monash Graduate and the Monash International Scholarships. She was also awarded the Center of Teaching Excellence Faculty Travel Award (2012) and the Humanities Texas Grant Award (2013). Her teaching interests are in leadership and organizational behavior. Dr. Fisher's area of research examines the relationship between leadership, culture, and dangerous contexts. Recent research projects have focused on the military expatriate and looked at the role of gender in forward combat zones. She has published multiple chapters in two different handbooks-one on leadership and another one on veterans. Journal articles have been published in Journal of Organizational Behavior, Military Psychology, Leadership, and the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, among others