Gregory Sharp
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of Sociology
Area of Expertise
Place and health,
Housing inequality,
Community resources,
Quantitative methods
Biography
Gregory Sharp is on leave during the 2025-26 AY at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University.
Professor 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. His 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.
Before joining Dartmouth, Sharp was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY-Buffalo (2015-2020) and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Rice University (2013-2015).
Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2013
M.A., Bowling Green State University, 1996
B.A., Bowling Green State University, 1993
Taught Courses
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.
Sharp, Gregory and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro. 2021. "Neighborhood Social Environments, Healthy Resources, and Adult Diabetes." Health & Place 67:102473.
Sharp, Gregory, Ellen Whitehead, and Matthew Hall. 2020. "Tapped Out? Racial Disparities in Extra-Household Kin Resources and the Loss of Homeownership." Demography 57:1903-28.
Schachter, Ariela, Gregory Sharp, and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro. 2020. "(Can't Get No) Neighborhood Satisfaction? How Multilevel Immigration Factors Shape Latinos' Neighborhood Attitudes." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 6: 1-16.
Sharp, Gregory. 2019. "Changing in Place? Neighborhood Change and Place Attachment among Movers and Stayers in Los Angeles." Population, Space and Place 25(5):e2189.
Sharp, Gregory. 2018. "Eclipsing Community? Neighborhood Disadvantage, Social Mechanisms, and Neighborly Attitudes and Behaviors." City & Community 17:615-35.
Sharp, Gregory and Cody Warner. 2018. "Neighborhood Structure, Community Social Organization, and Residential Mobility." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 4:1-14.
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