Teaching Professor of Psychology
Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
Director of Research in psychology
B.A., Wake Forest University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Georgia
Dr. Terri Fisher attended Wake Forest University as an undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. in experimental/developmental psychology from the University of Georgia. She joined the faculty at Sewanee in 2016 after a long career at The Ohio State University at Mansfield. Dr. Fisher is very glad to be back in the South again, and she is thrilled to be teaching and researching at Sewanee.
Most of Fisher’s research and scholarly activity has centered on aspects of human sexuality. For many years, she primarily examined the extent and impact of parent-child communication about sexuality, but more recently, her research has focused on the role of the research context, societal expectations, and gender stereotyping on gender and personality differences in reports of various aspects of sexual behavior.
In addition to publishing numerous peer-reviewed articles, Dr. Fisher has co-edited the Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures (3rd ed., Routledge, 2011; 4th ed. Routledge, 2019), Speaking of Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Readings (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Current Directions in Human Sexuality and Intimate Relationships (Pearson, 2010). Fisher is a Past-President of the Midcontinent Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) and a Fellow of SSSS. She is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Sex Research and recently served on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Dr. Fisher has won awards for her research, her service, and her leadership.
Dr. Fisher splits her time between Sewanee and Signal Mountain, where she lives with her husband and an assortment of pets.
Courses offered
PSYC 100 Introduction to Psychology (Lab)
PSYC 101 Principles of Psychology
PSYC 213 Comparative Sexual Behavior
PSYC 360 Psychology of Gender (Lab)
PSYC 422 Controversies in Human Sexuality Research
