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Jessica Mace, Ph.D., is an art and architectural historian. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Canadian Architecture and Landscape in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto and is an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Programme in Visual Art and Art History at York University. Her research explores concepts of modernity and heritage in the architecture of the nineteenth-century through to the present day, particularly in housing and in industrial and urban contexts in Canada. Her research has been supported by the Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage; le Centre interuniversitaire d’études sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions; a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship; the St. George’s Society of Toronto; and a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC).

Mace is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada and the Secretariat Officer for the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.

Her recent publications include the books A medieval legacy: The ongoing life of forms in the built environment. Essays in honour of Professor Malcolm Thurlby (edited; Éditions Patrimonium, 2020), Territoires d’identité: Les villes de compagnie du Canada, (co-authored with Lucie K. Morisset, Montréal: Éditions Patrimonium, 2019), Notions of Heritage (co-edited with Yujie Zhu, 2021), and Heritage Communities (co-edited with Myriam Joannette, 2019).

Select publications

• Editor in chief of Architecture Canada (from 2015 to present)
• Jessica Mace, “’A Cheap Farm House,’ c. 1864-onward,” Smarthistory, September 2, 2022.
• Notions of heritage, Jessica Mace and Yujie Zhu (eds.), Quebec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2021, 256 pages.
• A medieval legacy: The ongoing life of forms in the built environment. Essays in honour of Professor Malcolm Thurlby. Jessica Mace (ed.), Montreal, Éditions Patrimonium, 2020, 418 pages.
• Les communautés patrimoniales, Jessica Mace and Myriam Joannette (eds.), Quebec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2019, 218 pages.
• Lucie K. Morisset and Jessica Mace, Territoires d’identité: Les villes de compagnie du Canada, Montréal: Éditions Patrimonium, 2019, 173p.
• Jessica Mace, “The city as spectacle: Modernity and the urban fabric of Jarvis Street, Toronto,” L’architecture de l’identité. Produire et lire l’originalité des paysages culturels. Mélanges en l’honneur de Luc Noppen, Lucie K. Morisset (ed.), Montreal: Del Busso, 2020, pp. 31-47.