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Position:
Associate Professor, American Studies, University of California at Davis, 2008-Present
Assistant Professor in American Studies, University of California at Davis, 2003-2008
Director, Environmental Justice Project, John Muir Institute for the Environment, U.C. Davis, 2006-Present
Publications
Books
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.
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
(#22) With Gerardo Gambirazzio, Alex Karner, Dana Rowan, Jonathan London, Deb Niemeier,
Best in Show?: Climate Policy and Environmental Justice Policy in California. Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice. 2 (4): 179-184. 2009.
(#21) with Jonathan London, Fraser Shilling, Gerardo Gambirazzio, Trina Filan, and Mary Cadenasso (Lead Author). Defining and Contesting Environmental Justice: Socio-natures and the Politics of Scale in the Delta. Antipode. 41 (4): 807-843. 2009. Reprinted in Spaces of Environmental Justice (Antipode Book Series), edited by Ryan Holifield, Michael Porter and Gordon Walker. 219-256. Wiley Blackwell, 2010
(#20) 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.
(#19) With Mike Ziser. Climate Change, Environmental Aesthetics and Global Environmental Justice Cultural Studies. Discourse, 29 (2): 384-410. Spring & Fall 2007.
(#18) Sports and Environmental Justice: “Games” of Race, Place, Nostalgia and Power in Neoliberal New York City. Journal of Sports and Social Issues, 33 (2): 111-129. 2009.
(#17) The Question of Environmental Justice. In Urban Climate Change Crossroads, edited by Richard Plunz and Maria Paola Sutto, 11-16. New York: Urban Design Lab, Columbia University. 2009.
(#16) with Jonathan London and Raoul Lievanos. Problems, Promise, Progress, and Perils: Critical Reflections on Environmental Justice Policy Implementation in California. UCLA Journal of Environmental Policy, 26 (2): 255-289. 2007.
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(#15) with Jonathan London (lead author), Environmental Justice at the Crossroads, Sociology Compass 2 (4): 1331-1354.
(#14) Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender, and Globalization at the U.S. Borders. Special Issue on Women and Water in International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9 (4): 475-484. 2007.
(#13) The Hummer: Race, Military, and Consumption Politics. In The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture, edited by Ellen Gorman and Elaine Cardenas, 221-232. Lanham: Rowman Littlefield. 2007.
(#12) Boundaries and Border Wars: DES, Technology and Environmental Justice. Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies: Special Issue on Technology and American Studies in American Quarterly, 58 (3): 791-814. 2006.
Reprinted in Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Damian F. White and Chris Wilbert. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2009.
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.
(#11) Bodies, Pollution and Environmental Justice, Educating for Environmental Change: Feminist Pedagogy and Environmental Justice Practice Special Issue, Feminist Teacher. 16 (2): 124-132. 2006.
(#10) 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.
(#9) With Swati Prakash and Alice McIntosh. (2005). Empowering Youth and Creating Healthy Environments in Northern Manhattan: WE ACT’s Youth Programs. Children, Youth and Environments 15 (1): 265-277. Invited Field Report for Children, Youth and Environments.
Retrievable at http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/15_1/f4_WEACT.pdf
(#8) 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.
(#7) 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.
(#6) Asian American Activism for Environmental Justice, Peace Review 16 (2), 149-156. June 2004.
(#5) Sze, Julie and Swati Prakash. Human Genetics, Environment, and Communities of Color: Ethical and Social Implications, Environmental Health Perspectives. 112 (6), 740-745. May 2004.
(#4) 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.
(#3) 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.
(#2) ‘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.
(#1) Have You Heard?: Gossip, Silence and Community in Bone, In Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Criticism. 2 (1), 59-69, Winter 1994.
Toxic Soup Redux: Why Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Matter after Katrina. October 2005. Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Social Sciences Research Council, retrievable at http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Sze/
Grants, Fellowships, Honors and Awards (Individual)
1. 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. This prize is awarded to the best published book in American Studies.
2. Faculty Development Award, 2008-2009. UC Davis.
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3. U.C.D., Small Grant in Aid of Research Award, 2008-2010 ($2000).
4. Gifford Fellow on Population Studies, Center for the Study of Regional Change. $7500. 2007-2008.
5. Art of Regional Change Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Regional Change and Davis Humanities Institute. $1500. 2007-2008.
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6. U.C.D., Davis Humanities Institute Fellow, 2006-2007.
7. U.C.D., Small Grant in Aid of Research Award, 2005 ($2000).
8. U.C.D., Educational Technology Partner Grant, 2004.
9. U.C. Office of the President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2004, U.C.S.D. Ethnic Studies.
10. Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow, Williams College, 2002-2003, joint appointment in American Studies and Environmental Studies.
11. American Society for Environmental History, Travel Grant, 2003.
12. Environmental Leadership Fellow, Environmental Leadership Project, 2002-2004.
13. American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellow, 2002-2003.
Grants, Fellowships, Honors and Awards (for EJP)
1. UCCSI Community Outreach & Teaching Grant (with Flora Lu at UCSC), UC Humanities Research Center, $7500. 2009-2010.
2. Community Partnership Project Grant, American Studies Association. $3000. 2008-2009.
3. UCCSI Community Outreach & Teaching Grant, UC Humanities Research Center, $7500. 2008-2009.
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4. Ford Foundation. Co-PI: “Participatory Action Research on Environmental Justice in the Central Valley” (JMIE/EJP). $130,000. 2008-2010
5. New Initiative/ Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Committee on Research. Co-PI: “Environmental Justice and Regional Change in the Central Valley. (John Muir Institute of the Environment/Environmental Justice Project). $30,000. 2007-2008.
6. Ford Foundation. Co-PI: “Building Capacity for Environmental Justice Research.” (JMIE/EJP). $69,500. 2007-2008.
7. Consortium for Women and Research. Co-PI: “Research Interest Group on Gender, Race, and the Environment.” (JMIE/EJP). $2000. 2007-2008.
8. Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety. Co-PI: Grant: “Building a Foundation for Participatory Action Research with Agricultural Worker Communities: An Environmental Justice Perspective” (JMIE/EJP). $7500. 2007-2008.