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 mater	New York University
Thesis	Noxious New York : the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice (2003)
Academic work
Institutions	University 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 full 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.