Research

Sharp, C-M. (2025). The Political Economy of Museums. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. doi.org/10.1080/15596893.2025.2465592
Sharp, C-M., Stangeland, J., & Sydorko, C. (June 2025). Preserving Oil: In Conversation with Educators at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum and Oil Museum of Canada. Energy Humanities.
Sharp, C-M. & Summers, S. (2025). Museum funding as critical practice. Museums & Social Issues. doi.org/10.1080/15596893.2025.2465592
Sharp, C-M. (2024). Architectural and Curatorial Extensions of Extraction at the Royal Ontario Museum. Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC), 49(1), 107-116.
Armstrong, E. & Sharp, C-M. (2024). Editorial: Mobilizing Museum Minerals. Museum & Society 22(2-3), 1-15.
Sharp, C-M. (2022). ‘Shell is proud to present…The Spirit Sings’: Museum Sponsorship and Public Relations in Oil Country. Museum & Society 20(2), 172-189.
Sharp, C-M. (July 21, 2022). From Collections to Sponsorship: Notes on the Extractive Museum. Incluseum.
Sharp, C-M. (2022). Oil-Sponsored Exhibitions and Canada’s Extractive Politics of Cultural Production. Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 13(1), 13-35.

Beckett, C., Desrochers-Turgeon, E., Kinder, J., Matson, Z., Sharp, C-M., et al. (2024). What It Takes: an all-ages colouring book about extraction. Beyond Extraction.
Sharp, C-M., Alton, C., Matson, Z., and McKay, E. (2022). Mining at the Museum: A Counter-Tour of the ROM’s Mineral Collection. Beyond Extraction.

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