Gregory Sharp
Associate Professor of Sociology
Gregory Sharp's research is devoted to advancing scholarship and informing policy on how and why the places in which people live, work, and play matter for individual health and well-being in the US. One area of work investigates how and why neighborhoods shape health and illness, focusing on activity spaces—the various places in which individuals conduct their daily activities. Professor Sharp's second line of inquiry, supported by the National Institute on Aging, examines how chronic experiences with housing instability (eviction, foreclosure, homelessness) contributes to racial and ethnic health disparities later in life.
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Department(s)
Sociology
Education
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2013
- M.A., Bowling Green State University, 1996
- B.A., Bowling Green State University, 1993
Selected Publications
Hess, Chris, Youngmin Yi, Gregory Sharp, and Matthew Hall. 2025. "Within-Day Diversity Change, Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Fear of Crime." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 11:1-19.
Warner, Cody and Gregory Sharp. 2024. "Nowhere to Launch? County-Level Correlates of Home-Leaving and Home-Returning." Population Research and Policy Review 43:33.
Sharp, Gregory and Richard M. Carpiano. 2023. "Neighborhood Social Organization Exposures and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Risk in Los Angeles." PLOS ONE 18(3):e0282648.
Denney, Justin T.*, Gregory Sharp*, and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro (*equal authorship). 2022. "Community Social Environments and Cigarette Smoking." SSM-Population Health 19:101167.