Congratulations to GRSJ community member and past sessional, Fiana Kawane, on receiving the prestigious Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship at SFU for 2024/25.
Presented by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at SFU, the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities Program increases the visibility of the contributions of the humanities and arts to the university community. It also engages the wider community through publicly involved scholarship and creativity.
Fiana’s fellowship is hosted by SFU’s department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and in collaboration with the Global Asia Program. Her fellowship centres the intersection of sound, performance, poetry, migration, and waterways. Drawing on her embodied and intergenerational knowledge as a heritage speaker of Japanese and Punjabi, she will be immersing herself in sonic, poetic, and embodied archives of migration, and leading public engaged, art-research inquiries of waterways.
“Many thanks to GRSJ Director, Dr. Nora Angeles for supporting my successful SFU Shadbolt fellowship application and ongoing guidance while I was teaching three courses at GRSJ over the last year. I am very grateful for the wonderful community that I had access to during this formative time.”
