Sutton, Mark - Physics - McGill University Mark Sutton uses x-ray diffraction to study the time-dependent behaviour of materials. Using the new synchrotron x-ray sources, he has developed new methods to perform in-situ time-resolved measurements which probe matter on nanometer length scales and with millisecond time resolution. These measurements give unique insight into how such dynamics effects the every-day properties of materials. ------------------ Sutton, Mark - Physics - McGill University Mark Sutton is an internationally renowned experimentalist who uses x-ray diffraction to study the behavior of non-equilibrium condensed matter. Using high intensity x-ray synchrotron radiation, he has developed techniques to perform time-resolved diffraction with millisecond time resolution to study the kinetics of phase transitions. He was also instrumental in developing and applying the important new technique of x-ray fluctuation spectroscopy. This technique exploits the unique properties of the coherent radiation from undulator sources, as well as recent developments in x-ray optics and detector technology to probe the structure of matter down to nanometer length scales and millisecond time resolutions.

(Fellow citation) Tsotsos, John - Mathematics and Computer Sciences - York University John Tsotsos is Canada’s premiere interdisciplinary vision scientist. His research addresses how the human brain processes what the eyes see as well as how to use that knowledge to develop innovative robotic systems that can see and understand the visual world in the performance of complex tasks. One of his major achievements is to define the Selective Tuning theory of vision: it has inspired new discoveries regarding the function of the human visual system as well as a new autonomous, intelligent, wheelchair for the physically challenged. His leadership in Canada is second to none, having built world-class vision groups and networks, and leading major scientific activities internationally in both computer and human vision science. ------------------ (2015 Dawson Medal citation) Tsotsos, John - Mathematics and Computer Sciences - York University John Tsotsos is Canada’s premiere interdisciplinary vision scientist, spanning computer and human vision. An international leader in active vision and computational models of vision and attention, he provided the first formal theorems regarding the complexity of human vision. Using these, he defined a neural architecture and theory of human visual attention, including counterintuitive predictions. These predictions have been strongly supported experimentally, now forming a new basis for vision science. His leadership in Canada is second to none, having built world-class vision groups and networks, and leading major scientific activities internationally in both computer and human vision science.

Toles, George - Arts - University of Manitoba George Toles is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film. For twenty five years, he has been the screenwriting collaborator of Canadian filmmaker, Guy Maddin. He has recently written an original screenplay for Guy's latest feature film, Keyhole (2011), which has just finished shooting. He also wrote the original story and co-wrote the screenplay for Canada's first stop-motion animated film, Edison and Leo. ------------------ Toles, George - Arts - University of Manitoba George Toles, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, Film and Theatre at the University of Manitoba is an extraordinarily accomplished scholar and artist who has established an international reputation for both his critical and his creative work. As the long-time scriptwriter for director Guy Maddin, he has helped shape one of the most innovative and highly-praised bodies of work in recent Canadian film; he is also one of the most important voices in contemporary film criticism. His work on film has been commissioned by editors working with major international presses, including Oxford and Routledge. His scholarly work, which includes studies of British and American literature from the nineteenth century to the present as well as film criticism, consistently reaches beyond the academy to demonstrate the importance of arts and culture to the larger society.

Savage, Candace - Creative Writing Candace Savage has earned an international reputation for the intellectual depth of her literary scholarship. The author of more than two dozen books on an impressive breadth of subjects, she has become one of the distinctive voices of Canada. ------------------ Savage, Candace - Creative Writing Candace Savage has earned an international reputation for the intellectual depth of her literary scholarship. The author of more than two dozen books on an impressive breadth of subjects, she moves from topic to topic with apparent ease, ranging from cultural studies to conservation biology to plasma physics. Her writing is animated by a desire to create connections, whether between science and literature, the past and the present, or readers and the urgency of the living world. In a literary career that spans thirty years, Savage has become one of the distinctive and distinguished voices of Canada.

Castillo Durante, Daniel - Littérature - Université d’Ottawa Daniel Castillo Durante, chercheur, essayiste et romancier d'origine argentine voit dans la littérature un outil de recherche et d'expérimentation qui rejaillit sur l'ensemble des sciences humaines. Aussi découvre-t-il dans ses livres un monde où l'hybridité, la mondialisation des marchés et le métissage des cultures finissent par remettre en question le stéréotype.

Castillo Durante, Daniel - Littérature - Université d’Ottawa Daniel Castillo Durante, professeur titulaire au Département de français de la Faculté des arts de l’Université d’Ottawa, est un chercheur, essayiste et romancier d’origine argentine qui a su se distinguer aussi bien dans le domaine de la théorie littéraire que de la littérature francophone. Ses travaux d’inspiration sociocritique et phénoménologique sur le stéréotype et son rôle dans la représentation littéraire et le transfert des savoirs dits « migrants », remarquables par leur originalité et leur indépendance d’esprit, leur rigueur analytique et leur envergure conceptuelle, ont été accueillis autant au Canada qu’à l’étranger comme des contributions majeures à la connaissance des rapports entre la littérature et les discours investis par le cliché et le martèlement des médias.

Howells, Coral Ann - Literary Studies - University of Reading / University of London Coral Ann Howells is the foremost scholar of Canadian literature in Britain. Her publications and teaching, particularly in the field of contemporary English-Canadian women’s writing, have inspired several generations of young scholars worldwide. Her special interest is in the writing of Margaret Atwood, and most recently she has co-edited with Eva-Marie Kröller the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. ------------------ Howells, Coral Ann - Literary Studies - University of Reading / University of London Coral Ann Howells has made outstanding contributions to the international study of Canadian literature, and her publications and teaching have shaped several generations of young scholars worldwide. A distinguished researcher of the gothic and historical novel, she has been particularly remarkable in her work on women writers, with a special emphasis on the writing of Margaret Atwood. Her eminence has been recognized with invitations to edit the Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood as well as co-edit the Cambridge History of Canadian Literature.

Matus, Jill - Literature - University of Toronto Jill Matus is an internationally-known scholar of Victorian literature and culture. Focusing in a sustained way on representations of mind and body, her research has been a major force in building interdisciplinary bridges between the history of the novel and the histories of medicine, physiology and psychology. With eye-opening results, her work on Victorian fiction has helped modern audiences understand how often literature has been an agent in the formation of scientific ideas. ------------------ Matus, Jill - Literature - University of Toronto Jill Matus is an internationally-known scholar of the fiction of Victorian Britain, as well as contemporary African American literature. With cultural representations of mind and body as sustained focus in her research on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors (from Charles Dickens to Toni Morrison), she has been a major force in building interdisciplinary bridges between the history of the novel and the histories of medicine, physiology and psychology. With eye-opening results, her work on Victorian fiction has helped modern audiences understand how often literature has been an agent in the formation of scientific ideas.

Ross, Christine - Art History - McGill University Christine Ross is Professor and James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She has recently published The Aesthetics of Disengagement (2006) and co-edited Disengagement (2006) and co-edited Precarious Visualities (2008). Her book on Passages of time in Contemporary Art will be published in 2011. ------------------ Ross, Christine - Art History - McGill University Christine Ross, James McGill Chair in Contemporary Art History, is internationally recognized as a leading scholar of contemporary art history. Her pathbreaking work ranges over several themes, including video; performance and new media art; art, science and technology; subjectivity, identify and the body in contemporary art; feminism and gender in art and art history; and contemporary Canadian art. An internationally-renowned scholar of performance art, Dr. Ross is the author of and editor of the three widely acclaimed scholarly books, over 50 chapters and articles in prominent collections and peer-reviewed journals in art history, new media studies, and visual culture.

White, Lydia - Linguistics - McGill University Lydia White is internationally recognized as a pioneering scholar in the field of generative second language acquisition. Her work has resulted in a new research framework, guided by the hypothesis that second language acquisition can be explained in terms of a combination of the operation of universal linguistic principles and mother tongue influence. ------------------ White, Lydia - Linguistics - McGill University Lydia White is internationally recognized as the leading scholar in the field of generative second language acquisition. Her pioneering work is acknowledged to have created a new framework for second language research, guided by the hypothesis that universal principles and parameters which underlie the acquisition of a native language apply also to the attainment of a non-native language by adult learners. In addition, her research has provided crucial theoretical and methodological tools for investigating how the native language may affect the learning of a second language. She has published more than 100 scholarly articles and is the author of two acclaimed textbooks that have influenced the training of researchers world-wide.

Cook, Terry - History of archives and of recorded information - University of Manitoba Terry Cook has transformed archives from being perceived as storehouses of old records to sites of power worthly of scholarly attention. In rethinking appraisal to decide what records become archives, responding to the challenges of digital records and critical theory, and exploring archival history, Cook has developed, nationally and internationally, a distinctive voice for Canadian archival scholarship. ------------------ Cook, Terry - History of archives and of recorded information - University of Manitoba Terry Cook has transformed the academic understanding of archives from being simple storehouses of old records to becoming themselves the focus for close scholarly attention. Seeing archives as sites of power, and archivists as agents of interpretation rather than passive curators, Cook has effectively reinvented his profession in Canada and internationally: from coping with the super-abundance of modern records and determining the tiny percentage that will survive as archives to responding to the challenges of digital records and of critical theory. His pioneering writing in archival history has made him a distinctive voice for Canadian archival scholarship worldwide.