Dr. Jerry Zee

Biography

Assistant Professor Jerry Zee is jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. As a sociocultural anthropologist, his research explores geophysical environmental emergence at the sites of political experimentation. His work is situated at the intersection of feminist science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and experimental ethnography. He examines the rise of China and the implications of geophysical geopolitical entanglements, focusing on how moving weather systems are linked to inland land degradation, major dust storm formations, and the eventual scattering of Chinese land and meteorological fallout across the Northern Hemisphere. Prior to his appointment at Princeton, he served as an assistant professor in Anthropology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was a Wenner-Gren Foundation Hunt Fellow. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley's Anthropology Department and was a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Program at the University of California, Davis in Science and Technology Studies.

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