Dr. Bob Fisher has been teaching Psychology at Lee University since 1983. After serving as chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences department from 1997-2000, he returned to the classroom full-time. He received the Lee University Excellence in Teaching Award in 1997.

Dr. Fisher’s courses include Writing for Psychology, Learning and Cognition, Physiological Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, History and Systems of Psychology, Capstone for Seniors, and graduate level Personality Theory.

He did his undergraduate work at Lee, then went on to complete his master’s degree at Georgia State University and his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where he wrote his dissertation on motivation and learning.

Dr. Fisher was born in Fresno, Calif. When he was nine years old his family moved to Hawaii, where he lived for the next seven years. He graduated from Atholton High School in Simpsonville, Maryland in 1976.

He and his wife Kim have three children, Emily, Matt, and David, and a granddaughter, Haley.

You can contact him at rfisher@leeuniversity.edu