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Virginia Parks
- UGSRBA, History and HumanitiesUniversity of Colorado, Boulder19881993
- GSRMS, Urban PlanningUCLA19951997
- GSRPhD, GeographyUCLA19972002
- UGSRBA, History and HumanitiesUniversity of Colorado, Boulder19881993
- GSRMS, Urban PlanningUCLA19951997
- GSRPhD, GeographyUCLA19972002
- Associate ProfessorUniversity of Chicago20022015
- ProfessorOccidental College20152017
- ProfessorUrban Planning and Public PolicySchool of Social EcologyUC Irvine20172022
- ProfessorUrban Planning and Public PolicySchool of Social EcologyUC Irvine2017
- Faculty AssociateITS-IrvineUC Irvine2023
Record last updated: October 21, 2025.
Recent Publications
published journal article |
Nov 2025
NONPROFIT LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: The Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
published journal article |
Mar 2025
Fossil Fuel Layoff: Capturing Decarbonization Impacts on Workers Through a Refinery Closure
Labor Studies Journal
published journal article |
Feb 2025
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.
Climate Policy
Publications
Note: Publications listed below are generally limited to those associated activity during Virginia Parks's affiliation with ITS-Irvine. The list may be incomplete. For a more comprehensive list, please visit their Google Scholar profile or consult other data sources in their Related Information.
Journal Articles
- Virginia Parks, William Sites and Tadeo Weiner Davis (2025) “NONPROFIT LED NEOLIBERAL GROWTH MACHINES AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: The Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49(6), pp. 1417–1436. Available at: 10.1111/1468-2427.13350. [ITS-Irvine record]
- Virginia Parks and Ian Baran (2025) “Fossil Fuel Layoff: Capturing Decarbonization Impacts on Workers Through a Refinery Closure”, Labor Studies Journal, 50(1), pp. 28–53. Available at: 10.1177/0160449X241281938. [ITS-Irvine record]
- Hanna Lempinen, Virginia Parks and Anna Korpikoski (2025) “Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.”, Climate Policy, pp. 1–13. Available at: 10.1080/14693062.2025.2460665. [ITS-Irvine record]
- David Wilson, Robert W. Lake, Kimberley Kinder, Virginia Parks, Kevin Ward and Marc Doussard (2018) “Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market”, The AAG Review of Books, 6(1), pp. 50–58. Available at: 10.1080/2325548X.2018.1402287. [ITS-Irvine record]
Books and Book Chapters
- Virginia Parks (2017) “Rosa Parks Redux: Racial Mobility Projects on the Journey to Work”, in Geographies of Mobility. 1st ed. Routledge. Available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315266336-6/rosa-parks-redux-racial-mobility-projects-journey-work-virginia-parks. [ITS-Irvine record]
Working Papers
- Virginia Parks (1996) Food-Related Transportation Strategies in Low Income and Transit Dependent Communities. Available at: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/85n1j2bb. [ITS-Irvine record]