Lisa Fischer

Lisa Fischer is Director of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Digital History Center (DHC). Located in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, the DHC was created to harness new technologies to help in engaging the public in the continuing conversation about the American Revolution, citizenship, and democracy. The DHC is currently working on a several complementary projects ranging from the creation of a new comprehensive website on the on the American Revolution to “Virtual Williamsburg,” an initiative to create an interactive 3D model of the town as it looked in 1776 in collaboration with the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH).

Lisa received her M.A. in Anthropology with a Specialization in Historical Archaeology from the College of William & Mary, her B.A. from Amherst College, and holds a certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the DHC, she worked as an archaeologist in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Department of Archaeological Research and at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.