Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe

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Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
Born1966
North Carolina Wesleyan College, B.A., Mathematics
Clark Atlanta University, M.A., Applied Mathematics
Stanford University, M.S., Operations Research
Claremont Graduate University, M.A., PhD., Economics
Doctoral
advisor
Cecilia Conrad
InfluencesWilliam A. Darity Jr.
Cecilia Conrad
AwardsRhonda Williams Prize (2004)
WebsiteWISER website profile

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe (born 1966) is an American economist who is the founder and current president of the

Women's Institute for Science, Equity, and Race (WISER).[1][2] She is a feminist economist who has been a faculty member at an extensive list of colleges and universities and served as president of the National Economic Association from 2017 to 2018.[3]

Early life and education

Sharpe was born in New York and moved with her parents to Virginia at a young age. She attended Highland Springs High School.[4]

Sharpe studied

graduate student in operations research at Stanford University.[5] She completed her PhD in economics at the Claremont Graduate University in 1998 under the guidance of Cecilia Conrad.[6] Her graduate committee consisted of Llewellyn Miller, John Angus, and Gary Smith.[7]

Claremont Graduate University, where Sharpe received her PhD.

Career

Sharpe has taught at Barnard College, Bennett College, Bucknell University, Columbia University, Duke University, and the University of Vermont.[8] She chaired the Department of Business and Economics at Bennett College from 2009 to 2012.[6] From 2008 - 2014, she was associate director of the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE), which she co-founded.[8] In 2012, she left her tenured position at Bennett College.[1]

Sharpe founded the

disaggregation of data to examine outcomes separately for women in each group.[5][9][10]

Sharpe also served as

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b "CSMGEP Profile: Rhonda Sharpe, A WISE(R) Woman". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  2. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  3. ^ "Rhonda Sharpe Bio". The Research In Color Foundation. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  4. ^ "Rhonda Sharpe, Mathematician of the African Diaspora". www.math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  5. ^ a b c "Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe | Women in Economics | St. Louis Fed". www.stlouisfed.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  6. ^ a b Staff, T. B. S. (2020-06-10). "20 Black Scholars You Should Know". TheBestSchools.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  7. ^ "VCU - Central Authentication Service - Login". login.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  8. ^ a b "The Real Superwoman: Grandmothers as caregivers". Center for Child & Family Policy | Duke University. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  9. ^ "How's the economy? vs. how's the economy for each of us?". Marketplace. 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  10. ^ "I Want To See Myself in the Data". Economic Policy Institute. November 19, 2019.
  11. ^ "NEA Officers and Executive Board | National Economic Association". www.neaecon.org. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  12. ^ "IAFFE - Board of Directors". www.iaffe.org. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  13. ^ "The Review of Black Political Economy". SAGE Journals. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  14. ^ https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=5524 CSWEP News, 2017 Issue II