Julie Sze is Professor of American Studies at

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...

. Her research deals with environmental justice, inequality and culture; race, gender and power; and community health and activism.

Education

Sze grew up in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City. She received her B.A. from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

in 1995. Sze earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

in 2003. She then joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis where she was promoted to professor in 2015.

Career

She is the author of three books: ''Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice'' (MIT Press, 2007), for which she won the 2008

John Hope Franklin Prize The American Studies Association (ASA) is a scholarly organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history. It was founded in 1951 and claims to be the oldest scholarly organization devoted to these topics. The ASA work ...

, ''Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis'' (University of California Press, 2015), and ''Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger'' (University of California Press, 2020). The latter offers a “primer” on activism for

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...

Selected publications

* * *

References

External links

* Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni New York University alumni University of California, Davis faculty Environmental justice scholars Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-academic-bio-stub