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Gwen Sharp is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Nevada State College, a four-year teaching college in Henderson, Nevada. M.S. She received her M.S. in Rural Sociology and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She teaches Gender and Society, Racial and Ethnic Conflict in the U.S., Sex and Social Arrangements, Social Stratification, Popular Culture, and Introduction to Sociology.

Gwen's research focuses on the role media images in reproducing gender inequalities, particularly regarding issues of sexuality. She has a chapter, co-authored with Professor Lisa Wade, forthcoming in the 3rd edition of the book Images that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media. She also studies the sociology of agriculture, concentrating on the U.S. beef and dairy industries. She has also written about problems surrounding land ownership and land loss among African American and American Indian farmers, co-authoring the article "The Loss and Persistence of Black-Owned Farms and Farmland: A Review of the Research Literature and Its Implications" in the journal Southern Rural Sociology. She co-authors a regular column with Lisa Wade in the sociology magazine Contexts.