Maryanne L. Fisher

Full Professor, Psychology, Saint Mary’s University

Maryanne L. Fisher, PhD is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, and an Affiliated Faculty member at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. She is an award winning teacher, and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles mostly pertaining to women and evolutionary psychology. She edited the Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition (2017, Oxford University Press), and was lead editor on Evolution’s Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women (2013, Oxford University Press). Her current primary areas of investigation are women’s intrasexual competition for mates, mothering, women’s cooperative alliances, and interpersonal relationships in general.

Experience

2014–present

Full Professor, Saint Mary's University

Education

2004

York University, PhD
1999

McMaster University, MSc
1997

York University, BA (summa cum laude)

Professional Memberships

International Society for Human Ethology
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
North Eastern Evolutionary Psychology Society

Honours

Fellow of the North Eastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (2019), Canada 150 Community Leadership and Citizenship Award (2017), Association of Atlantic Universities Distinguished Teacher Award (2016), Canada Progress Club Women of Excellent Award (2014)