Julie Sze

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]

Julie Sze
Academic background
Alma materNew York University
ThesisNoxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice (2003)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis

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. OCLC 940869417.
  • Sze, Julie (2015). Fantasy islands: Chinese dreams and ecological fears in an age of climate crisis. OCLC 942228092.
  • Sze, Julie (2020). Environmental justice in a moment of danger. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-30073-6. OCLC 1108786678.

References
  1. "Julie Sze, Ph.D." UCDavis Cultural Studies. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  2. Ambriz, Naomi; Correia, David (2017-04-03). "Conversations in Environmental Justice: An Interview with Julie Sze". Capitalism Nature Socialism. 28 (2): 54–63. doi:10.1080/10455752.2017.1313877. ISSN 1045-5752. S2CID 151938996.
  3. "Julie Sze | University of California, Davis - Academia.edu". ucdavis.academia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  4. Reviews for Noxious New York
  5. "John Hope Franklin Prize | ASA". www.theasa.net. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  6. Reviews for Fantasy Island
  7. Reviews for Environmental Justice
  8. Ciucci, Carolina (2022-01-28). "8 Essential Books on Environmental and Climate Justice". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2022-05-25.


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