Sharon Emerson

{{short description|American biologist}}

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| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (BA)
University of Southern California (MS, PhD)

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University of Illinois, Chicago,
American Society of Zoologists

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Sharon B. Emerson (born 1945) is an American biologist and was a research professor emeritus at the University of Utah.

In 1993, she was chair of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the American Society of Zoologists.{{cite web |url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1280028/2-texans-among-list-of-winners-of-macarthur-grants.html |title=Archived copy |website=www.chron.com |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018230319/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1995_1280028/2-texans-among-list-of-winners-of-macarthur-grants.html |archive-date=18 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}

She taught at University of Illinois, Chicago.{{cite web|url=http://www.uic.edu/depts/wsweb/program/history.htm|title=UIC Gender & Women's Studies|website=Uic.edu|accessdate=25 October 2018}}