John Grace memorial philosopher in residence: Rizvana Bradley

Rizvana Bradley is associate professor of Film and Media and Affiliated Faculty in the History of Art and the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Bradley is the author of Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023), shortlisted for the 2024 MLA Prize for a First Book and named one of the Top Books of 2023 by FRIEZE. Her art criticism has been published in The Yale Review, Artforum, e-flux, Art in America, and Parkett, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs, including for the Serpentine Galleries, the New Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. She serves on the advisory boards of October and Camera Obscura. Bradley has curated a number of academic arts symposia, including events at the British Film Institute, the Serpentine Galleries, the Stedelijk Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Cecil H and Ida Green visiting professor: Simon A Cole

Simon A Cole is professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, and co-editor of the National Registry of Exonerations. His research focuses on science and technology in the criminal legal system, particularly forensic science. He is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard University Press, 2001), which was awarded the 2003 Rachel Carson Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science, and a co-author of Truth Machine: The Contentious History of DNA Fingerprinting (University of Chicago Press, 2008, with Michael Lynch, Ruth McNally & Kathleen Jordan).

John Grace memorial visitor in residence: Signa A Daum Shanks

Dr Signa A Daum Shanks is a lawyer, law professor, and historian. Currently working at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, she teaches, researches, and has taught property, torts, legal history, law and economics, game theory, Canadian constitutionalism and Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous legal traditions. Before becoming a full time academic, Dr Daum Shanks worked at a national law firm, MAG Ontario, the federal Departments of Justice and (now) Indigenous Services, and Saskatchewan Justice. Dr Daum Shanks is a Senior Fellow at Massey College. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as the Literary Review of Canada, Folklore, Queen’s Quarterly, and Canadian Literature.

Recognized with the President’s Award from the Women Lawyers Association of Ontario, a scholarly research prize from the Law Commission of Canada, the national Scholarly Paper Award from the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, and the Research Leader Award at York University, Dr Daum Shanks enjoys contributing to various Boards, including the Ontario Bar Association, the OBA Foundation, the CBA’s Law for the Future Fund, the Public Legal Education Association (Saskatchewan), and Saskatoon’s poverty law clinic (CLASSIC). She was appointed by the United Nations as a participant in the annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Dr Daum Shanks was a member of the Minister of Innovation’s Legislative Review Panel, the Minister of Heritage Advisory Panel on Online Harm, and in 2021 she was appointed the Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel for Supreme Court Appointments.

Dr Signa A Daum Shanks is also a proud shareholder of the community-owned Saskatchewan Roughriders. She will be in residence at Green College in the second half of October, 2025.
 

Inaugural Patricia Merivale scholar in residence: Christine Ferguson

Professor Christine Ferguson (FEA, FRHistS) is Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of popular fiction, science, and alternative spirituality in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. She is the author of three books and two edited works, including the essay collection The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Routledge, 2018), co-edited with Andrew Radford, and the new monograph Opens Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain’s Occult Revival, 1842-1936  (Oxford University Press, 2025). In 2026, she will publish the first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings as part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. 

Dr Ferguson is also a society member of Green College. She will be in residence at Green College for a week in late July 2025, and then for a longer period beginning in April, 2026. 

Visiting scientist from France: Emmanuelle Helloin

Dr Emmanuelle Helloin is a research engineer at INRAE (France) specializing in bacteriology. Her academic background includes a Master's in Microbial Ecology with a focus on biological treatment of wastewater, and doctoral research on the impact of environmental factors on Listeria monocytogenes in cheese production. She furthered her research with a postdoctoral fellowship focused on identifying virulence factors of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli. Currently, she is responsible for organizing and developing the CIRM-BP, a culture collection of animal and human pathogenic bacteria at INRAE (Nouzilly). Her expertise lies in the bacteriology of risk group 2 and 3 pathogens, with a strong emphasis on biosafety and biosecurity as well as ISO 9001 quality management. 

Dr Helloin's current objectives involve expanding the CIRM-BP collection to include commensal bacteria and a microbiota biobank, aiming to make these resources accessible to the international scientific community. She actively participates in European and national research projects focused on characterizing bacterial biodiversity and evaluating potential new antimicrobial agents.

Dr Emmanuelle Helloin will be in residence at Green College for three months, beginning in September 2025.

John Grace memorial visitor in residence: elin kelsey

elin kelsey, PhD is an award-winning author, speaker, and thought-leader for the evidence-based hope and climate justice solutions movement. Her newest book, How to Be Hopeful: Empowering Practices to Overcome Despair and Act for Climate Justice will be published in October 2025. elin’s influence can be seen through the hopeful, solutions-focus of her clients, including the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools, and other powerful institutions where she has served as a visiting fellow including the Rachel Carson Center for the Environment and Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kone Foundation, the Salish Sea Institute, the Cairns Institute, and Stanford University. She co-created the viral social media campaign #OceanOptimism and is currently leading intergenerational collaborations with climate influencers to make evidence-based hope more shareable online. A best-selling children’s book author, her picture books reveal the intimate connections between humans and the greater-than-human world. Her work as a podcast host, film writer and exhibit creator celebrates the resilience that exists within ourselves, and across species. She is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Victoria School of Environmental Studies, and Western Washington University’s School of Environment. In 2020, she co-created an international network of researchers and practitioners working within the emerging academic discipline of Climate Emotions. She regularly leads workshops for environmental organizations, youth climate activists, educators, and community groups on evidence-based hope and serves as an author/artist in residence for schools around the world.  

Dr elin kelsey will be in residence at Green College in March, 2026. For more on her work, visit her website. Photo credit: Shay Markowitz.

21st writer in residence: Clara Kumagai

Clara Kumagai is from Ireland, Japan, and Canada. Catfish Rolling, her debut novel, was a 2024 YOTO Carnegie Medal nominee, and winner of the 2024 KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year. Her second novel, Songs for Ghosts, is out in 2025. She lives and writes in Ireland.

For her residency, Clara has organized the public series Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea, a multidisciplinary exploration of creativity and the ocean, and of the relationship between humans and the natural world. This series explores the ocean as a world unto itself, as well as a site for human journeys, and how traversing them links to themes of identity, (im)migration, and human connections to our environment. UBC’s coastal location and the ocean's fluctuations due to climate change heightens the relevance of engaging with the sea and our connection to water in thoughtful and insightful ways. The series’ guests include writers, a singer-songwriter, and a playwright, with a body of work that engages with nature and communities through the lens of both past and present.

Clara Kumagai will be in residence at Green College for three months, beginning in September 2025. Learn more about her work on her website.

John Grace memorial visitor in residence: Martha Langford

More information on Dr Langford's work and residency will be posted shortly.

22nd writer in residence: Theresa Muñoz

Theresa Muñoz was born in Vancouver, Canada and lives in Edinburgh. She is a poet and academic researcher, with a PhD from the University of Glasgow. She has published one collection of poetry, Settle, which was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Her second collection Archivum, an exploration of what it means to engage with archival artefacts, is published by Pavilion Poetry (2025). She has been awarded the Muriel Spark Centenary Award, Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Creative Scotland Award, and shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Award. She has directed several literary initiatives in the UK, including the Newcastle Poetry Festival and the James Berry Poetry Prize. 

Theresa Muñoz will be in residence at Green College for three months beginning in January, 2026.

Photo taken by Laura Meek.

Cecil H and Ida Green visiting professor: Mino-Giizhig (Wayne) Valliere 

Mino-Giizhig (Wayne) Valliere (Waaswaaganing; Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin) is an internationally acclaimed Anishinaabe artist and educator, a National Heritage Fellow (the highest award for traditional artists in the United States), a recipient of the prestigious
Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellowship, and a respected cultural leader throughout the Western Great Lakes region. Valliere has dedicated his life to the preservation of Anishinaabe culture and language, not only mastering scores of art forms but working intensively with youth to transmit traditional knowledge to the next generation. Valliere has constructed dozens of birchbark canoes, revitalized traditional games and sports throughout the region, and taught Anishinaabemowin to hundreds of students in the public school.

Mino-Giizhig Valliere will be in residence at Green College for a week in late October, 2025.