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.
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).