Dr. Fisher is an archaeologist, a professor of anthropology at Colorado State University and the founder of the Earth Archive, which is focused on building a three-dimensional record of the entire planet. Dr. Fisher’s research has centered on unraveling the complex set of social and environ- mental variables that resulted in the formation of the Purépecha Empire in Michoacán, Mexico. He and his team were the first to document the ancient city now called Angamuco, and at a settlement in the Mosquitia region of Honduras in 2015, now called the City of the Jaguar, discovered a cache of artifacts—an expedition covered in a 2015 issue of National Geographic and the book The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story. His work appears in many edited volumes, such as The Archaeology of Environmental Change, journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and American Anthropologist, and popular publications such as The New Yorker. Dr. Fisher has conducted fieldwork and directed projects in the United States, Mexico, Honduras, Portugal, and Albania. In 2007, Dr. Fisher received the Gordon R. Willey Prize from the American Anthropological Association. He earned a BA from Michigan State University, and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin- Madison.