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Growing community and building futures with the 2025-2026 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows
Early this month, the 2025-2026 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows displayed the ways in which they are growing their communities and in turn building inclusive futures for all.
The theme for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences' (FASS) annual showcase of the Jack and Doris Fellowship in the Humanities was "Growing Community and Building Futures". Hosted at SFU's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, the Shadbolt Fellows demonstrated the ways they are creatively bridging the gap between artistic expression and research.
On February 5 2026, guests were welcomed and introduced to the Shadbolt Fellows by Dean Laurel Weldon and English professor Clint Burnham. This year's fellows are: Cease Wyss, Darby Minott Bradford, Krystle Dos Santos, and Yiting Pan who presented their projects funded through the Fellowship as well as participated in a lively moderated discussion.
Cease Wyss
Cease Wyss' background as an ethnobotonist and Matriarch of the Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo and Hawaiian people shaped their fellowship project as they brought settler students and the broader community to sites within the Sto:lo region (Greater Vancouver, Howe Sound, and the Sunshine Coast region of the Salish Sea.) They explained the value of land-based conversations comparing and contrasting between the traditional use of land to its present-day state. Delivering a hands-on experience to the community and students, Wyss went deeper having facilitated discussions on local Indigenous communities' and the local government's fight for sovereignty over unceded lands.
Darby Minott Bradford
Award-winning poet and current Writer-in-Residence for the Department of English, Darby Minott Bradford, walked through the process of developing their hybrid-form manuscript Elsewhere. Additionally, they are working to expand the text into an accompanying audio format. Bradford continues to engage with community members and local artists discussing the ways to make art and academic works accessible, sustainable, and affordable when urban landscapes become increasingly inequitable.
Krystle Dos Santos
Having graced stages and podiums throughout Canada, Krystle Dos Santos told the story of Vie's Chicken and Steaks in Vancouver's Hogan's Alley alongside stories from Black Canadians that are often overlooked. Dos Santos' background in acting, singing, and community organizing uniquely positions her to share these voices through performance. Her fellowship project takes her storytelling abilities into another dimension by creating a theatre production of the stories of the women who worked at Vie's Chicken and Steaks, one of which is the mother of the late Jimi Hendrix. The performance illuminates the larger story of Hogan's Alley, including the Black American migration from San Francisco to Salt Spring Island.
Yiting Pan
Founding member of the Asian Construction History Network, Yiting Pan addressed the gaps in archival research on the experiences of Chinese-Canadian architects in Vancouver's architectural and social history. Illustrating the research gap with the help of the Fellowship, Pan explained her plan to create a publicly accessible map and digital guide of Chinese-Canadian architectural buildings in Metro Vancouver from 1900 to present day. Pan walked through her process displaying archival images and newspaper articles that follow the professional journeys of several Chinese-Canadian architects as well as the social policies that were taking shape at the time.
English Professor and Shadbolt Coordinator, Clint Burnham introduced the Shadbolt Fellows.
Shadbolt Fellows during the moderated discussion and Q&A period.
An audience members asked a question.
An audience member directed a question to Yiting.
An audience member directed a question to the Shadbolt Fellows.
Yiting answered a question from the audience.
An audience member took part in the lively discussion.
Cease answered a question from the moderator, Clint.
Krystle presented at the podium.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is grateful to Jack and Doris Shadbolt for their generous endowment funding the fellowship program. Through this funding, the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities supports academic scholars, artists, knowledge keepers, and practitioners in promoting the approaches to the humanities and arts as important sites of creative and critical engagement with the major concerns of our times.