Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe

Not to be confused with Rhonda Dawn Sharp, another feminist economist.

Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
Born	1966 New York City
Nationality	American
Academic career
Field	Feminist Economics
Institution	Women's Institute for Science, Equity and Race (WISER) Bennett College
Alma mater	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
Influences	William A. Darity Jr. Cecilia Conrad
Awards	Rhonda Williams Prize (2004)
Website	WISER 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 mathematics at North Carolina Wesleyan College and Clark Atlanta University and was a 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 Women's Institute for Science, Equity, and Race (WISER) on International Women's Day in 2016.[5] WISER is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)3 research institute specifically devoted to the study of Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American women. In particular, Sharpe advocates for the disaggregation of data to examine outcomes separately for women in each group.[5][9][10]

Sharpe also served as president of the National Economic Association from 2017 to 2018 and holds a position on the board of the International Association for Feminist Economics.[11][12] She is an editor for The Review of Black Political Economy.[13]

Selected works

• Coleman, Major G., William A. Darity Jr, and Rhonda V. Sharpe. "The Moral Hazard of Discrimination Reports." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 67, no. 2 (2008): 149–175.
• Conrad, Cecilia A., and Rhonda V. Sharpe. "The impact of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) on university and professional school admissions and the implications for the California economy." The Review of Black Political Economy 25, no. 1 (1996): 13–59.
• Zhang, Li, Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Shi Li, and William A. Darity Jr. "Wage differentials between urban and rural-urban migrant workers in China." China Economic Review 41 (2016): 222–233.
• Sharpe, Rhonda Vonshay, and Omari H. Swinton. "Beyond anecdotes: A quantitative examination of Black women in academe." The Review of Black Political Economy 39, no. 3 (2012): 341–352.
• Blalock, Sacha D., and Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe. "You go girl!: Trends in educational attainment of Black women." In Black female undergraduates on campus: Successes and challenges. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012.
• Sharpe, Rhonda Vonshay. "We've Built the Pipeline: What's the Problem and What's Next?"[14]

References

1. "CSMGEP Profile: Rhonda Sharpe, A WISE(R) Woman". www.aeaweb.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
2. Ewing, Jack (2019-10-22). "Women Are Missing at Central Banks". The New York Times. 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. "Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe | Women in Economics | St. Louis Fed". www.stlouisfed.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
6. 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. "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