Fitore Hyseni completed her Master's degree in Public Administration at Syracuse University and a Bachelor degree in Public Policy and Economics from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Fitore's research interests broadly include social-spatial exclusion, geographies of inequality, urbanization and housing, and precarity.  Her dissertation research explores housing experiences of renters with disabilities and the effects of precarity on housing outcomes.  She is particularly interested in how welfare restructuring and austerity measures shape housing experiences of marginalized populations.