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 land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...

. 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 land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

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

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

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, ''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 to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...

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