Jerry C. Zee
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Fellow 2025–26
- Current Project
- Faultlines: Geopolitics, Geophysics, and the Sino-American Pacific
- Project Discipline
- Anthropology
- Fellowship Title
- Donnelley Family Fellowship
About Fellow
Jerry Zee is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. His work speaks to contemporary questions of environmental politics, planetary change, and geopolitical experiment across East Asia and the Pacific.
Selected Publications
- Zee, Jerry. “Liquefaction and Liquidity: A Transpacific Orogeny in Race, Wealth, and Mud.” Environmental Humanities 15, no. 3 (2023): 190–202.
- Zee, Jerry. “Surface and Retreat: The China Virus in Three Lunar Years.” English Language Notes 61, no. 1 (2023): 30–9.
- Zee, Jerry. “Mt. Rainier.” Black Warrior Review 48, no. 2 (2022): 125–9.
- Zee, Jerry. “Planetary Bodies: Faults, Flesh, and Orogenesis in Ilana Halperin’s Physical Geology.” In Ilana Halperin: Felt Events, edited by Catriona McAra. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.
- Zee, Jerry. Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022.