Jerry C. Zee

Assistant Professor Jerry C. Zee holds a joint appointment in Princeton University's Department of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. He is currently on leave for AY 25-26. His research focuses on geophysical and environmental emergence as sites of political experiment, particularly through the lens of feminist science studies and environmental humanities. Zee examines China's geophysical and geopolitical entanglements via weather systems linking land degradation, dust storms, and atmospheric fallout across the Northern Hemisphere.

Education: Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley (2015). Previously served as Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz (Anthropology and Critical Race/Ethnic Studies) and was a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis. His work combines experimental ethnography with analyses of governance, engineering, and material culture.

Research interests include meteorology, political ecology, and the aesthetics of environmental governance. Awards include the Wenner-Gren Foundation Hunt Fellowship and UC Davis Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship.