Steve Fisher served as associate professor/curator of special collections at the University of Denver from 1981 to 2012, when he became the university historian. For many years he has taught preservation and rare book courses the DU School of Library and Information Science. Fisher has written numerous articles on DU and South Denver history, and is the author of University Park and South Denver (Arcadia, 2009) and South Denver and University Park, A History (The History Press, 2012).