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]
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