John Muir Institute of the Environment

Julie Sze
American Studies
 University of California, Davis
 One Shields Avenue
 Davis, CA 95616

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Julie Sze

Associate Professor

Julie Sze, associate professor, American studies, is the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project in the John Muir Institute of the Environment. Her research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and community health and activism. She has published on a wide range of topics such as energy and air pollution activism; toxicity; the cultural politics of the Hummer, and on environmental justice novels and cultural production. Her book Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2007) 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. Sze has also worked with community-based environmental organizations in New York City and California for the past 15 years.