Julia's publications appear in peer-reviewed journals, academic blogs, and mainstream media [pictures linked to pieces below]. For access to any paywalled materials, please feel free to contact me at jsizek [at] berkeley.edu . 

Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles

Zombie Infrastructure: A Legal Geography of Railroad Monstrosity in the California Desert (Environment and Planning D)

Regulatory Alchemy: How the Water Cycle Becomes Capital in the California Desert (Antipode)

Playground (Journal for the Anthropology of North America)

California’s Groundwater Regime: The Cadiz Case (Resources)

Academic Blogs and Reviews

How Farmland was Financialized…for Groundwater (Institutional Landscapes)

Our Ramona (Boom California)

Interviews with the Native American Land Conservancy (News from Native California)

Pollution Does Not Just 'Go Away' (Engagements)

Remembering in the Aftermath (Society for Cultural Anthropology Fieldsights)

What are you reading? Iris Marion Young and Ernst Kantorowicz (Society for Cultural Anthropology, Fieldsights)

Anthropologists Teach In (Society for Cultural Anthropology)

Subterranean Legal Geographies: Regulating Groundwater in California (Law and Space (Un)Journal)

Seeing Beyond the Joshua Trees in the East Mojave (Edge Effects)

Journalism, Essays, and Cultural Commentary

How Dirt Biking Shaped the Bay Area—and the West (Bay Nature)

In Bloom: Mary Beal's Mojave (Mojave Project/ KCET Artbound)

Want to Buy a Town? (LAist)

The New West: Why Republicans Blocked Public Lands Management (The Guardian)

The American West's Great Checkerboard Problem (Zocalo Public Square/San Francisco Chronicle)

The Trouble with Cadiz (Mojave Project/KCET Artbound) (Nominated for an LA Press Club Award)

The History of Vaccines Through An East Bay Regional Park (Bay Nature)

FOMO Spirituality (Blog of the LA Review of Books)

The Joshua Tree Aesthetic (Blog of the LA Review of Books)

Willie Boy: How a Manhunt Became Myth (Mojave Project / KCET Artbound)