Julie Sze, Director

Director, Environmental Justice Project
Associate Professor, American Studies

Web site

http://ams.ucdavis.edu/~jsze/home page.htm

Research

Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her research is at the intersection of interdisciplinary fields: American studies, environmental, urban and ethnic studies. Sze's research focuses on race, class, gender and the environment, the environmental justice movement, urban environmentalism and environmental health. Her book from MIT Press, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Dec. 2006), analyzes the culture, politics and history of environmental justice activism in New York City within the larger context of privatization, deregulation and globalization.

Jonathan London

Director, Center for the Study of Regional Change
Assistant Professor, Human and Community Development
Senior Researcher, Environmental Justice Project

Web site

http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/london/london.html

Research

London's research focuses on rural social movements, community participation in environmental and natural resource management, and questions of equity in rural development in the Central Valley. London currently represents UC Davis on the Community University Research and Action Alliance for Justice (CURAJ) Advisory Board. CURAJ is a coalition of researchers, legal advocates, and community activists dedicated to applying research to address issues of race, poverty and environmental justice in the Central Valley. Members represent the Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Latino Issues Forum, Madera Coalition for Community Justice, Youth In Focus, UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law Center for Social Justice, UC Merced, UC Sacramento Center, and UC Davis.

Cort Anastasio

Land, Air and Water Resources

Web site

http://anastasio.lawr.ucdavis.edu

Areas of Interest

the science of air pollution and its link to policy, including environmental justice impacts; atmospheric chemistry and photochemistry

Heidi Ballard

Education

Web site

http://education.ucdavis.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=0900

Areas of Interest

environmental education; science education; in-service and preservice teacher learning; secondary education

Tom Beamish

Sociology

Web site

http://www.sociology.ucdavis.edu/tdbeamish/

Areas of Interest

organizations, institutions, and economy; environment and technology; field research methods

Mary Cadenasso

Plant Sciences

Areas of Interest

ecological boundaries; urban land cover and ecosystem function; riparian zone function in semi-arid savannas; integration of ecological and social theories; ecology and urban design

Ryan Galt

Community Development

Web site

http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/webpages/galt/

Areas of Interest

people-environment geography, cultural and political ecology, agricultural and environmental governance, political economy of sustainable agriculture, environmental justice and pesticides, cartographic design

Joyce Gutstein

John Muir Institute of the Environment
Director, Public Service Research Program

Web site

http://psrp.ucdavis.edu

Areas of Interest

engaged scholarship, university-community partnerships, place-based studies and education, community-based environmental research and engagement, environmental health and justice

Susan Handy

Environmental Science & Policy

Web site

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/handy/

Areas of Interest

neighborhood design and travel behavior, non-work travel behavior, automobile dependence and transportation planning practice

Ari Kelman

History

Web site

http://history.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Kelman_Ari

Areas of Interest

historical memory; the built environment; US environmental history; landscape theory and history; The Civil War and reconstruction; Native American studies

Benjamin Orlove

Environmental Science and Policy

Web site

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/orlove/orlove.htm

Areas of Interest

anthropology, ecology, and writing; climate, forecasting, and indigenous cultures

Mike Rios

Landscape Architecture

Web site

http://lda.ucdavis.edu/people/websites/rios.html

Areas of Interest

geography, urban design, community development, public policy, professional practice, and citizen participation in regional planning and urban design

Fraser M. Shilling

Environmental Science and Policy

Web site

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/research/Shilling/Default.htm

Areas of Interest

watershed assessment and adaptive management; road ecology and wildlife crossing; environmental justice (especially fish contamination); ecosystem services and indicators

Mike Ziser

English

Web site

http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/faculty/ziser/index.html

Areas of Interest

American literature before the Civil War; American nature writing through the present day; ecocritical theory; and Anglophone settlement literature (Canada, Australia, South Africa), ornithological writing, Transcendentalism, phenomenology, bioregionalism, and cognitive literary studies

Trina Filan

Geography

Thesis

The Spatial Distribution of Women Farmers in California and the Effects of that Distribution on their Access to Resources and the Longevity of their Operations

Areas of Interest

environmental justice and resource access; environmental justice and land use; environmental justice and food security

EJP Project

Environmental Justice and Regional Change in the Central Valley

Maggie La Rochelle

Community Development

Areas of Interest

Community knowledge, membership and space; environmental justice and interdisciplinary education; youth environmental identity; arts activism.

Raoul Lievanos

Sociology

Thesis

Harvesting Distinction: Politics of Place in Napa

Areas of Interest

water policy and activism, agriculture, social movements and organizations

EJP Project

Building a Foundation for Participatory Action Research with Agricultural Worker Communities: An Environmental Justice Perspective

Alison Alkon

Sociology

Thesis

Black, White and Green: Environmental, Community, Race and Class in Two Urban Farmers Markets

Areas of Interest

environmental justice and food, urban space, community-building and social movements, environmental justice and everyday practice

EJP Project

Building Capacity of the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis

Mari Cortez

Cultural Studies

Thesis

Reading the Scatalogical: The Tale of 2 Sitings

Areas of Interest

environmental justice and waste, border communities, sewage treatment

EJP Project

Building Capacity of the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis

Gerardo Gambirazzio

Geography

Thesis

Space, Race and Exclusion: A Spatial History of the Chinese Communities in the Sacramento Delta

Areas of Interest

space and identity in the Delta

EJP Project

Environmental Justice and Regional Change in the Central Valley

AB32 and Environmental Justice

Tracy Perkins

Community Development

Thesis

Becoming Political: Environmental Justice and Women in California's Central Valley

Areas of Interest

environmental justice, politicization, social movements, participation, organized labor, advocacy networks, popular education, community knowledge, agriculture

EJP Project

Building Capacity of the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis