Stuart Parker is a scholar, writer, broadcaster and political activist based in Prince George, British Columbia. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern BC. A former postdoctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Stuart’s academic writing has appeared in diverse academic journals including Sport and Society and the Journal of Mormon History. His most recent peer-reviewed publication, “Quesos y gusanos,” a study applying Carlo Ginzburg’s theory of a “folk substratum” to Mexican Mormon thought, appears in Just South of Zion: Mormons in Mexico and its Borderlands. Since 2005, he has delivered papers at the conferences of the American Historical Association, American Academy of Religion, BC Studies, the Canadian Historical Association, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, Mormon History Association and American Society for Theatre Research and Performance Studies, among others. He works on Anglo American politics, Mormonism, landscape phenomenology and Mexican history.
During his time in Toronto, Stuart served as a member, and later chair of the GTA Latin America Research Group (LARG), a community of faculty and graduate students from the universities in Southern Ontario. In BC, he was a founding member of the Pacific Northwest LARG.
In September 2012, Stuart co-founded Los Altos Institute an socialist institute focused on points of intersection among landscape, empire and epistemology in Western Canada. Through LAI, Stuart has run zero-barrier reading groups in Prince George, Vancouver, Surrey and online, as well as seven-week online courses and a series of intensive retreats throughout rural BC. Over two hundred people have participated in Stuart’s LAI programs since 2016; online reading groups and courses have drawn students from South Africa, Barbados, India and the US, in addition to the normal geographic terrain of Southern and Central BC. Stuart has recruited three additional group leader/instructors who provide additional programming on speculative fiction, film history and postmodernism.
Stuart is a longtime electoral reform activist, having co-founded the BC Electoral Change Coalition in 1997 and the Toronto Democracy Initiative in 2007. He has also served on the boards of Fair Vote Canada, most recently as Vice President, and Fair Voting BC and on the steering committees of the “Yes” campaigns in the 1996 Vancouver civic, 2007 Ontario provincial and 2005 and 2009 BC provincial referenda on proportional representation. Stuart refused to participate in the government-allied counterfeit “yes” committee in BC’s rigged 2018 referendum, instead campaigning as a free agent, debating the chair of the “no” campaign on three separate occasions.
Founder of the BC Green Party’s youth wing in 1988, Stuart is best-known for his two-year campaign against McDonald’s Restaurants’ (and five-year campaign against major grocery chains’) use of ozone-damaging foam packaging. Following the success of the campaign, Stuart served as the party’s leader from 1993 to 2000 but returned to the New Democratic Party shortly thereafter, having left the party over its support of the Meech Lake Accord in 1987.
From 2001-18, Parker served variously as a paid consultant, E-day organizer and riding association director for the NDP in BC and Ontario. Following the election of the Horgan government in BC, Stuart became disillusioned with the New Democrats over their plan to provide $6 billion in corporate welfare to the fossil fuel industry to increase exports of fracked natural gas. He resigned from the party in 2018.
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In 2019, he co-founded with BC Ecosocialist Party with long-time NDP comrades Geoff Berner, Alannah New-Small and Sharon Jackson. He currently serves as the party’s Organizing Chair.
In 2019, Stuart also began hosting a weekly public affairs radio show, currently broadcasting on CFUR 88.7 in Prince George and available as a podcast outside North-Central BC.
Since being prescribed the Basic Dungeons and Dragons boxed set by a child psychiatrist at the age of nine, Stuart has been an avid player of tabletop roleplaying games and still runs a weekly game for his partner’s daughters. From 2005 to 2009, he served as either a judge or board member for the annual RPG awards at Gen Con, the hobby’s main convention. He is currently working with a team of researchers at the University of Alberta to design a tabletop RPG-based intervention for children with developmental disabilities. As a fan and scholar of American religion, he appeared on the Space Channel’s panel discussions of Battlestar Galactica from 2008 until the series finale.
Formerly, a Unitarian and and Anglican, Stuart has teturned to the faith of his young adulthood, Bokononism. During his period as a Christian in Toronto, he was active in his faith community. Following his leadership in organizing a two conferences in support of Anglican same-sex blessings in 2007 in Toronto, he served as a regular panelist for CTS Christian TV’s public affairs program, On the Line until relocating to the US in 2010.
Nephew of the late Harry Jerome, Stuart gave the keynote speech at the opening of BC’s Black History Month celebrations in 1994 and served on the board of the BC Black Historical and Cultural Society in 2001-02.
