Position
- Associate Professor in American Studies, University of California at Davis, 2008-present
Assistant Professor 2003–2008.
- Director, Environmental Justice Project, John Muir Institute for the Environment, U.C. Davis, 2006–Present.
Education
- Ph.D., New York University, Program in American Studies, September 2003.
- B.A., University of California at Berkeley, English, May 1995.
Publications
Books:
- Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Noxious New York was awarded the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. This prize is awarded annually to the best published book in American Studies.
Articles and Book Chapters:
with Jonathan London, Fraser Shilling, Gerardo Gambirazzio, Trina Filan, and Mary Cadenasso. Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta. Antipode. 41 (4): 807-843. 2009.
2009.Sze.et.al.Antipode.article.pdf.
With Tom Angotti. Environmental Justice Praxis: Implications for Interdisciplinary Urban Public Health. Interdisciplinary Urban Health Research and Practice, edited by Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Saegert and Susan Klitzman. 19-41. New York: Jossey Bass, 2009.
Angotti_and_Sze.pdf.
With Mike Ziser. Climate Change, Environmental Aesthetics and Global Environmental Justice Cultural Studies. Discourse, 29 (2): 384-410. Spring & Fall 2007.
Ziser_Sze_final.pdf.
Problems, Promise, Progress, and Perils: Critical Reflections on Environmental Justice Policy Implementation in California (2008) for the UCLA Journal of Environmental Policy, 26 (2): 255-289.
London_Sze.
*with Jonathan London, (2008). “Environmental Justice at the Crossroads,” Sociology Compass 2 (4): 1331-1354. Retrievable at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00131.x
Sze_and_London_sociology.
*Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender, and Globalization at the U.S. Borders. (2007). Sze_Women_and_Water
Special Issue on Women and Water in International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9 (4): 475-484.
- Boundaries and Border Wars: DES, Technology and Environmental Justice. (2006). Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies. Special Issue on Technology and American Studies in American Quarterly, 58 (3): 791–814.
- Reprinted in Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies, edited by Carolyn De La Pena and Siva Vaidhyanathan, 237–260. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- The Hummer: Race, Military, and Consumption Politics. In The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture, edited by Ellen Gorman and Elaine Cardenas, 221–232. Rowman: Littlefield. 2007.
the_hummer. - Bodies, Pollution and Environmental Justice, Educating for Environmental Change: Feminist Pedagogy and Environmental Justice Practice Special Issue, Feminist Teacher. 16 (2): 124–132. 2006.
bodies_pollution_and_EJ. - Environmental Justice, Urban Planning, and Community Memory in New York City, in Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice, edited by Sylvia Washington, Paul Rosier, and Heather Goodall, 171–182. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
EJ_Urban_Planning_Community_Memory. - Empowering Youth and Creating Healthy Environments in Northern Manhattan: WE ACT�s Youth Programs (with Swati Prakash and Alice McIntosh). Children, Youth and Environments 15 (1): 265–277. Invited Field Report for Children, Youth and Environments. 2005.
- Race and Power: An Introduction to Environmental Justice Energy Activism, in Power, Justice and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement, edited by David N. Pellow and Robert J. Brulle, 101–115. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.
race_and_power. - Gender, Asthma Politics, and Urban Environmental Justice Activism, In New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, edited by Rachel Stein, 177–190. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Gender_Asthma_and_Urban. - Asian American Activism for Environmental Justice, Peace Review 16 (2), 149–156. June 2004.
- Human Genetics, Environment, and Communities of Color: Ethical and Social Implications (with Swati Prakash). Environmental Health Perspectives 112 (6), 740–745. May 2004.
- The Literature of Environmental Justice, In The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics and Pedagogy, edited by Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans and Rachel Stein, 163–180. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.
EJ_literature. - Expanding Environmental Justice: Asian American Feminists’ Contribution, In The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics, edited by Nancy Holmstrom, 408–415. New York: Monthly Review, 2002.
- ‘Not By Politics Alone’: Gender and Environmental Justice in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, In Bucknell Review, edited by Glynis Carr, 29–42. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 44 (1), March 2000.
not_by_politics_alone.
- Have You Heard?: Gossip, Silence and Community in Bone, In Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Criticism. 2 (1), 59–69, Winter 1994.