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Cease Wyss

Host Department: Indigenous Studies

Cease Wyss is a traditionally trained Indigenous ethnobotanist and accomplished sculptural artist. Wyss' 36-year career as an artist has been very productive with 30+ presentations, residencies, and shows. Their projects have appeared in international and local art exhibitions, most recently at MIT’s ISO Incubator Program, the Swiss Institute in New York City, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Semi-Public, 221A, Vancouver, and the Cabinet at SFU's School for Contemporary Arts. Cease has also received various accolades, including the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation’s VIVA Award for the Visual Arts and an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Emily Carr University.

During their fellowship, Wyss plans to bring settler students and the larger community to various sites within the Sto:lo region, the GVRD and the Howe Sound/Sunshine Coast region of the Salish Sea. These land-based conversations and walks will begin a dialogue about those places and their original context, and to compare this with the current land use and interpretations of the land – and engaging with ideas of remediation, restoration and cultural reciprocity. Through discussions and through selected readings, these walking sessions will investigate specific cases in which local Indigenous communities are fighting local governments for sovereignty over their stolen lands and waters.

Cease's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2025 to August 2026.

Darby Minott Bradford

Host Department: English

Darby Minott Bradford is an award-winning poet, translator, and accomplished literary programmer. They have published two poetry collections and two translations, which have collectively garnered accolades such as Winner of the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, Finalist for the Governor General Literary Award, and Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Their latest translated work, Ring of Dust by Louise Marois, was published by Brick Books in spring 2025. During their fellowship, Bradford proposes to continue development of their hybrid-form manuscript Elsewhere, as well as grow an audio body of work based on these evolving texts. Through both this writing and recorded interviews with local literary artists, cultural workers, and SFU community members, their project seeks to investigate and open conversations about how people afford art and academic practices in unsustainably expensive cities. They will also serve as SFU English’s in Writer-in-Residence in Fall 2025.

Bradford's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from January to August 2026.

Krystle Dos Santos

Host Department: English

is an actor, singer, creator and community organizer, who has produced two music albums and theatrical shows. Her albums have won the Western Canadian Music Award twice. She has also organized various educational programs about Black-Canadian history in Canada.

Continuing her passion to amplify and tell the many overlooked stories of Black Canadians, Dos Santos' project will put on a theatre show about the stories of the women who owned and ran the restaurant, Vie’s Chicken and Steaks in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley. This performance will tell the larger story of the historical Hogan’s Alley community, starting with the migration of a group of Black Americans from San Francisco to Salt Spring Island where Vie was born, to the destruction of the beloved Hogan’s Alley neighbourhood in 1975.

Krystle's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2025 to May 2026.

Yiting Pan

Host Department: History

is an accomplished architecture professional and heritage scholar. She completed her PhD in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at University of Cambridge, and since then has worked as a researcher, heritage consultant, and lecturer. She has served as Vice Director of Historic Architecture and Architectural Conservation Research Group (Soochow University) and Initiator and Organizer of the First China-Portugal Heritage Research Forum. She has received numerous awards and grants, including the Ministry of Science and Technology of China Grant for National Key R&D Program and First Prize in Academic Research in the School of Architecture (Soochow University).

Pan’s proposed project will fill the gap in research around the collective experiences of Chinese-Canadian architects within the city’s architectural and social history. Through documenting the professional journeys of three generations of Chinese-Canadian architects, she will capture oral histories of older architects for knowledge preservation. This will culminate in a publicly available creative map and digital guide of Chinese-Canadian architectural buildings in Metro Vancouver from 1900 to the present, along with published research. Pan is also a founding member of the . 

Yiting's term as a Shadbolt Fellow runs from September 2025 to May 2026.