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Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Institute of African American
Research and the Department of Economics
University of North Carolina, CB 3305
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Telephone: (919) 966-2383
Facsimile: (919) 966-4986
Email: sharper@unc.edu
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Rhonda Sharpe is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of African
American Research and the Department of Economics at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a research fellow, her research focuses
on funding and access to higher education and labor market discrimination.
Recent works evaluate the impact of funding discrepancies between
historically black and traditionally white land grants universities, the
impact of disparate treatment in education policy in the state of
Mississippi, and the impact of educational attainment on labor market
discrimination. She was a Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Scholar in the
Department of Economics from 2000-2002.
Sharpe comes to UNC after two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor in
the Department of Economics
at Barnard College in New York City
(affiliated with Columbia University).
She was also an instructor at Columbia
University in the
Department of International and Public Affairs during the 1998-99 academic
year. She teaches courses on the principles of microeconomics, poverty
and income distributions, operations management for public policy and
international affairs, statistics for economist, quantitative analysis, and
First Year Seminar: Meritocracy in America.
Sharpe received her BS from the North
Carolina Wesleyan College in 1988, majoring in mathematics with
extensive course work in chemistry and journalism. She
received her MS in applied mathematics in 1992 from Clark Atlanta University and her MS in
operation research from Stanford
University in 1994. Sharpe completed her MA in economics and
her Ph.D. in economics/mathematics in 1998 from the Claremont Graduate University.
For additional information on publications, research in progress, and
teaching, see Sharpe's c.v.
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