Julia Sizek is a research associate at the Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) in the Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments at the University of Oregon. As a cultural anthropologist and human geographer, Julia brings expertise in multi-jurisdiction land management, federal and state environmental regulation, and cultural resource management to the EWP team. At EWP, Julia currently works on the 30-year monitoring for the Northwest Forest Plan. 

Julia's other work has focused on the complexities and contradictions of land management in rural areas with fractionated ownership in the Southeastern California desert through the lenses of legal geography, political ecology, and environmental history. Her published research brings an eclectic approach to understand regulatory framings of groundwater financialization, how contemporary extractive companies rework railroad-era precedent, and the regulatory contradictions of off-road vehicle management. Other works in progress investigate the enduring legacies of the railroad checkerboard, nostalgia and postwar federal land disposal policies, and the history of the relationship between hunting and burro management. Julia has also worked with tribes and tribal organizations in California on various issues, including cultural resource management, sacred site acquisition, tribal history. 

PhD, Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkley (2022) 
AB, Anthropology and International Studies, University of Chicago (2013)