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, 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. She is the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment.