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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.

Education

Sze grew up in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City. 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. 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.

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.

References

1. ^ "Julie Sze, Ph.D." UCDavis Cultural Studies. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
2. Ambriz, Naomi; Correia, David (2017-04-03). "Conversations in Environmental Justice: An Interview with Julie Sze". Capitalism Nature Socialism. 28 (2): 54–63. doi:10.1080/10455752.2017.1313877. ISSN 1045-5752. S2CID 151938996.
3. "Julie Sze | University of California, Davis - Academia.edu". ucdavis.academia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
4. Reviews for Noxious New York
   • Allen, Barbara L. (2007). "Review of Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice". Technology and Culture. 48 (4): 868–870. doi:10.1353/tech.2007.0146. ISSN 0040-165X. JSTOR 40061349. S2CID 110129461.
   • Maantay, Juliana (2008-05-01). "Book Review: Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice, by Julie Sze. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 296 pp. $24.00 (paperback)". Urban Affairs Review. 43 (5): 733–735. doi:10.1177/1078087407306413. ISSN 1078-0874. S2CID 153510445.
   • Roberts, Samuel (2008-07-01). "Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. By Julie Sze (Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 2007) 282 pp. $24.00". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 39 (1): 157–158. doi:10.1162/jinh.2008.39.1.157. ISSN 0022-1953. S2CID 195826920.
   • Homberger, Eric (August 2008). "John Louis Recchiuti, Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, $59.95/£39.00). Pp. 311. isbn978 0 8122 3957 7. - Julie Sze, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2007, £38.95). Pp. x+282. isbn978 0 262 19554 6". Journal of American Studies. 42 (2): 378–379. doi:10.1017/S0021875808004970. ISSN 1469-5154.
5. "John Hope Franklin Prize | ASA". www.theasa.net. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
6. Reviews for Fantasy Island
   • Veale, Michael (2015-01-03). "Book review: fantasy islands: Chinese dreams and ecological fears in an age of climate crisis by Julie Sze". LSE Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
   • Warren, James (2017-05-15). "[Book Review] Fantasy islands: Chinese dreams and ecological fears in an age of climate crisis by Julie Sze, 2015, University of California Press" (PDF). Island Studies Journal. 12 (1): 257–258. ISSN 1715-2593.
   • Leow, Joanne (2016-09-01). "Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis". English Language Notes. 54 (2): 199–200. doi:10.1215/00138282-54.2.199. ISSN 0013-8282. S2CID 165189552.
   • Henderson, Mark (2016-09-01). "Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis. By Julie Sze". Pacific Affairs. 89 (3): 635–637.
7. Reviews for Environmental Justice
   • Baptiste, April Karen (2020-12-01). "Julie Sze. Environmental justice in a moment of danger: An important addition to the body of environmental justice". Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 10 (4): 492–493. doi:10.1007/s13412-020-00630-9. ISSN 2190-6491. S2CID 221372912.
   • Earhart, Nick (2021). "Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze (review)". Western American Literature. 56 (3): 337–339. doi:10.1353/wal.2021.0047. ISSN 1948-7142. S2CID 246646488.
8. Ciucci, Carolina (2022-01-28). "8 Essential Books on Environmental and Climate Justice". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

External links

• Julie Sze publications indexed by Google Scholar

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