Julie Sze | |
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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 |
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]
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]
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]
Julie Sze | |
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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 |
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]
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]
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]