M.A., Geography (2013) The University of Kentucky

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1 LAURA L. SHARP ENR2 Building, Rm. S-433 Tucson, AZ (913) Ph.D., Geography (Dec. 2018) M.A., Geography (2013) The University of Kentucky B.A., Geography (2009) The University of Kansas KEY QUALIFICATIONS 8+ years of university teaching experience including online and GIS courses Proven online teaching effectiveness Successful completion of UA OIA Introduction to Online Teaching 10+ years of experience with ArcGIS for Desktop (ArcMap and Pro) 3+ years of experience with ArcGIS Online Demonstrated talent for written, visual, and verbal communication Proven ability to work independently, as a team, and to manage others Inimitable work ethic, initiative, organization, and follow through COMPUTER SKILLS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES ArcMap/Catalog ArcGIS Online/Portal ArcGIS Pro Sequel Server QGIS Web App Builder Adobe Creative Story Maps Cloud Op. Dashboard Hub/Sites Python HTML SQL CURRENT POSITIONS Teaching Associate GIS Technological Intern Information Technology Department, City of Tucson August 2017-present April present

2 SHARP 2 EXPERIENCE IN ONLINE, GEOGRAPHIC, AND GIS PEDAGOGIC PRACTICE AND THEORY Fundamentals of GIS Lab Assistant Assisted students using ArcGIS Pro to conduct vector data editing and capture, projective transformations, image georeferencing, topology error correction, suitability analysis using model builder, and raster calculations Assessed student work and provided feedback in constructive manner August 2018-Present Places in the Media Instructor of Record (Hybrid, Online, and In-Person) Created and delivered lectures two days per week to 50 undergraduate students on geographic concepts and media analysis techniques Translated complex topics to new learners Assessed students ability to critically engagement with course content Managed classroom of students with diverse personalities, backgrounds, and abilities August May 2018 Digital Geographies Practicum Instructor of Record Institute of Geography, Johannes-Gutenberg University Organized daily seminar on digital geographies, critical cartography, and web mapping Designed and steered collaborative field research project mapping city-wide festival Trained students to collect GPS, interview, and audio-visual data Trained students to process and visualize data in ArcMap, MyMaps, and Google Earth June-July 2016 Research Assistant UA Online, Conducted research about online education, specifically: o How tuition, operating costs, and educational quality vary by institutional type o Trends in micro-credentials, competency-based learning, and MOOCs o The pros and cons of online and in-person parallel course design Communicated findings in written and verbal summaries June-July 2015

3 SHARP 3 Course Development Assistant Geographic Information Systems Technology (GIST), Developed instructional content on map types, map interpretation, geodesy, projections, and reference systems for GIST 214: Map Science Developed instructional content on lay out, typography, color, symbolism, and classification methods for GIST 314: Principles of Cartography Designed multi-media content for online teaching environment August May 2015 Teaching Assistant Department of Geography, University of Kentucky Facilitated discussions between undergraduate students Worked as part of a team to develop instructional content, activities, and assessment PROFESSIONAL GIS EXPERIENCE Technological Intern City of Tucson, IT-GIS Collaborate with Tucson Police, Transportation, and City Manager s Office to build GIS web applications that meet departments unique needs Work with ArcGIS Server to create geo-processing services used in web applications Build and maintain datasets in City s Enterprise geo-database Design maps for print in ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap April Present GIS Technician United States Geologic Survey Used ArcMap to digitize and buffer land disturbances in the Chocolate Mountains July April, 2017 DISSERTATION RESEARCH ARTICLE OPTION Conducted 36 interviews with public officials, film industry professionals, and homeowners Developed innovative methodology for the study of film and television production

4 SHARP 4 Used Qualtrics to design and administer survey to 100 Los Angeles homeowners Analyzed results and summarized in three articles: o Sharp, Laura. (Under Review). Motion Pictures, Mobile Markets: Making the Film Locations Market in Los Angeles California. Submitted to the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. o Sharp, Laura. (Under review). Embodied Cartographies of the Unscene: A Feminist Approach to (Geo)Visualizing Film and Television Production. Submitted to Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies. o Sharp, Laura. (In preparation). Labor Precarity and the Effects of Tax Incentives On Location Professionals in New Orleans. Being submitted to Environment and Planning A. PUBLICATIONS Books In press Lukinbeal, Chris, Laura Sharp, Anton Escher, and Lisa Sommerlad (Eds.), Media s Mapping Impulse. Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 2018 Sharp, Laura But how do you show that in a film? Absence, Cartographic Anxiety, and Geographic Realism Through the Landscapes of Akira Kurosawa s Dersu Uzala. GeoHumanities. DOI: / X Lukinbeal, Chris, and Laura Sharp Performing America s Toughest Sheriff: Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio s Old West. GeoJournal 80(6), Crampton, Jeremy W., Jay Bowen, Daniel Cockayne, Brittany Cook, Eric Nost, Lindsay Shade, Laura Sharp, and Malene Jacobsen Whose geography? Which publics? Dialogues in Human Geography 73(3): Book Chapters 2018 Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp Hollywood s Lingua Franca: Narrative Formula Through the Geography of Transformers 4: Age of Extinction. In, Brunn, Stan and Kehrein, R. (Eds.), Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer.

5 SHARP Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp City as Backlot: On Location in San Diego. In, Tesfahuney, Mekonnen and Karin Fast (Eds.), Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds. New York: Routledge Sharp, Laura and Chris Lukinbeal 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. Encyclopedia Entries, Book Reviews, and Editorials In press Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp Imagined Cities (Cinema). In, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. New York: Wiley Sharp, Laura and Chris Lukinbeal. Film Geography. In Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York: Wiley Press Sharp, Laura Rev. of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Greene. Journal of Consumer Culture 17(2): Sharp, Laura, and Shelby Smith The Montage Effect: A Note from the Editors. you are here: the journal of creative geography, 17: Lukinbeal, Chris and Laura Sharp Geography and Film. In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. PRESENTATIONS Invited Research Talks 2017 Cinematographic Scale and the Topographer s Gaze. Geomedia Speaker Series, Department of Geography, Media & Communications, Karlstad University. Karlstad, Sweden Motion Pictures, Mobile Markets: Making Film Location Markets in Los Angeles, CA. Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, Swansea University. Swansea, Wales.

6 SHARP Motion Pictures, Mobile Markets: Making Film Location Markets in Los Angeles, CA. Colloquium Series, Department of Geography, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. Conference Presentations 2018 Precarious Labor? The Effects of Tax Incentives On Location Professionals in New Orleans, New Orleans in Medial Imaginations Symposium, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, February 1-3, Motion Pictures, Mobile Markets: Making Film Location Markets in Los Angeles, CA, GeoMedia: Spaces of the In-Between, May 9-12, Cinematographic Scale and the Topographer s Gaze, Media s Mapping Impulse Symposium, June 17-18, 2016, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany Vision, Loss and the Sociality of Absence in Kurosawa s Dersu Uzala (1975), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, March 27-2, 2016, San Francisco, CA Visuality and Landscape in Kurosawa s Dersu Uzala (1975), 10 th Annual Landscape, Space, and Place Conference, March 3-5, 2016, Bloomington, IN Film Geography: A Review and Prospectus, GeoMedia: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds, May 5-9, 2015, Karlstad, Sweden Film Geography After the Real/Reel Binary, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2015, Chicago, IL Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio s Old West, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2015, Chicago, IL Understanding and Moving Beyond Film Geography s Real/Reel Binary, 76 th Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, September 24-28, 2014, Tucson, AZ Hey Joe, Where You Going with That Gun in Your Hand? Media as Practice in Joe Arpaio s Old West, 76 th Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, September 24-28, 2014, Tucson, AZ.

7 SHARP Performing America s Toughest Sheriff in Joe Arpaio s Old West, 20 th Annual Conference on Critical Geography, February 21-23, 2014, Boulder, CO Reading the Soviet Far East in Kurosawa s Dersu Uzala (1975), Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 9-13, 2013, Los Angeles, CA The Representation and (De)Commodification of Nature in Dersu Uzala (1975), Third Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 28-March 3, 2013, Lexington, KY SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE Elected Positions Graduate Student Representative, Communication & Media Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers President, Southern Arizona Geographers Association Journal Reviews 2018 Emotion, Space and Society 2016 Urban Geography 2016 Environment and Planning A Conference Organizing 2016 Symposium Organizing Committee, Media s Mapping Impulse, Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, June 17-18, 2016, Mainz, Germany Session co-organizer, Media Geographies Sessions I-X, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, April 20-24, 2015, Chicago, IL Conference organizing committee, 76 th Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, September 24-28, 2014, Tucson, AZ Session co-organizer, Media Geographies 1: Lights, Cameras, (Ray)guns!, 76 th Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, September 24-28, 2014, Tucson, AZ.

8 SHARP Session co-organizer, Media Geographies II: Lights, Cameras, Obsessions, 76 th Annual Conference of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, September 24-28, 2014, Tucson, AZ Session organizer and chair, Mapping the Potential for Landscape Political Ecology Studies, Third Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 28-March 3, 2013, Lexington, KY SERVICE TO DEPARTMENT Graduate-Faculty Representative School of Geography and Development, Colloquium Committee School of Geography and Development, External Relations Committee Department of Geography, The University of Kentucky SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Full Tuition Scholarship and Teaching Stipend Travel Grant Graduate and Professional Student Council, Present 2015 Full Tuition Scholarship and Teaching Stipend Department of Geography, The University of Kentucky German Studies Award, Most Outstanding Student Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures The University of Kentucky 2012

9 SHARP 9 REFERENCES John Paul Jones, III (Ph.D. Advisor) Professor of Geography and Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences Douglass Building 200 W. PO Box Tucson, AZ jpjones@ .arizona.edu (520) Gary Christopherson Associate Professor of Practice and Director for Applied Spatial Analysis School of Geography and Development ENR2 Building, Rm. S-530 Tucson, AZ gchristo@ .arizona.edu (520) Peter Johnson IT Manager and GIS Supervisor Information Technology Department City of Tucson 481 W. Paseo Redondo Tucson, AZ peter.johnson@tucsonaz.gov (520) Vincent Del Casino, Jr. Professor of Geography and Vice President of Academic Initiatives and Student Success Administration Building, Rm E. University Blvd. Tucson, AZ vdelcasino@ .arizona.edu (520)