Laura Sharp
Research Interests
Social, cultural, and economic geography; science and technology studies; GIS
Selected Publications
Sharp, Laura and Chris Lukinbeal. 2015. Film Geography: A Review and Prospectus. In, Mediated Geographies/Geographies of Media, Science and Business Media series, International Handbooks of Human Geography. Edited by, Susan Mains, Julie Cupples, and Chris Lukinbeal. Sage.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2015. Performing America’s Toughest Sheriff: Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio’s Old West. Geojournal 80(6): 881-892.
Sharp, Laura and Chris Lukinbeal. 2014. Film Geography. In Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York: Wiley Press. Forthcoming.
Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp. 2014. Geography and Film. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sharp, Laura. 2014. Rev. of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Greene. Journal of Consumer Culture. Forthcoming.
Crampton, Jeremy W., Jay Bowen, Daniel Cockayne, Brittany Cook, Eric Nost, Lindsay Shade, Laura Sharp, and Malene Jacobson. 2013. Whose geography? Which publics? Dialogues in Human Geography 73(3): 73-76.
Contact Information
Degree(s)
Ph.D. Geography (Expected 2017), The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
M.A., Geography (2013), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
B.G.S., Geography (2009), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Courses Taught
GEOG 205: Places in the Media