Julie Sze

Julie Sze is an Associate Professor in American Studies at the University of California at Davis and founding Director of the Environmental Justice Project of the John Muir Institute of the Environment (http://ej.ucdavis.edu/). Her interdisciplinary research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published widely on a broad range of topics (http://ams.ucdavis.edu/~jsze/). Her book, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice examines urban inequality, environmental justice and contemporary culture, focusing on asthma and air quality, garbage and energy policy in the age of privatization and deregulation. Noxious New York won the 2008 John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book published in American Studies. Sze has also worked with community-based environmental justice organizations in New York City and California for the past 15 years.