Jessica Parish, SPPA Assistant Professor
We are delighted to announce Dr. Jessica Parish has joined the School’s faculty as of January 1, 2024 as SPPA Assistant Professor, and will be teaching courses on local and urban governance and sustainability.
Prior to joining the SPPA Faculty, Jessica was a Marie Curie International Fellow at the Center for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. Her MSCA project, funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, investigated the role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factor investing in the build-to-rent housing sector in the United Kingdom.
Jessica’s research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and focus on debates across urban environmental justice, sustainable development, and feminist theories of social reproduction. Her research and teaching also strive to learn from settler colonial theories and Indigenous knowledges to better understand how issues of housing and environmental justice – both of which are inextricable from land and property – are implicated in colonial pasts and presents as well as decolonized futures.
In addition to her academic roles, Jessica has also held research and policy positions at the Ontario Chiropractic Association and Lancaster House Publishing, and she is a past Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors at Toronto-based Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations.
Visit Jessica’s faculty page for more information.
Welcome Jessica!