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] gmail.com . 

Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles and Reports

Coughlan, M.R., Huber-Stearns, H. and S. Schneider (Eds.) The Northwest Forest Plan, 30 years of social and economic change in rural forest-based communities (1994-2024) (Working Paper No. 125). Ecosystem Workforce Pro- gram, Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments, University of Oregon. https://hdl. handle.net/1794/31412. Lead author, Chapters 3-10.

The Bureau of Livestock and Motorcycles: Measuring Leisure in the Bureau of Land Management’s Off-Road Era (Environmental History)

Impossible Evidence: The legal dismal cycle of regulating off-roading in the California desert (Geoforum)

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

Brief Communication: Perspectives on Increasing Timber Harvest on National Forest Lands in the Pacific Northwest (Journal of Forestry)

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

Review of "The Settler Sea" (H-Net)

How Farmland was Financialized…for Groundwater (Institutional Landscapes). Soon to be published in an edited volume.

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)

Review of "Running Out" (JRAI)

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 Dirt Bikers Who Went to War on Desert Conservation (Zocalo Public Square, CalMatters, San Francisco Chronicle). Featured on KPCC's Airtalk with Larry Mantle.

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)