Julie Sze is Professor of American Studies at University of California, Davis. Her research deals with environmental justice, inequality and culture; race, gender and power; and community health and activism.[1]
Education
Sze grew up in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City.[2] She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. Sze earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University in 2003.[3] She then joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis where she was promoted to professor in 2015.[1]
Career
She is the author of three books: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2007),[4] for which she won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Prize,[5]Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015),[6] and Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger (University of California Press, 2020).[7] The latter offers a “primer” on activism for environmental justice.[8]
Selected publications
Sze, Julie (2007). Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Urban and industrial environments). MIT Press. OCLC940869417.
Sze, Julie (2015). Fantasy islands: Chinese dreams and ecological fears in an age of climate crisis. OCLC942228092.