Position Title
FRI Board Member
Professor of American Studies
Dr. Julie Sze studies environmental justice and inequalities, the relationship between social movements and policy implementation, and the areas of public and environmental humanities at the intersection of three interdisciplinary fields: environmental, urban and ethnic studies from the vantage point of American Studies. She is author of Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2007), Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015), and Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger (University of California Press, 2020). She edited the collection Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power (NYU Press, 2018) and has written over 70 articles and book chapters.