LONG John Saul is one of Canada’s best know Africanists and a significant participant in national policy debates in the Republic of South Africa, as well as in other countries in the Southern African region, and even, as a long-time anti-apartheid writer and activist, in Canada itself. Indeed, he has shown expertise on a number of the nations of the southern part of the African continent and has written influential books and articles on each. His work has addressed major strategic development problems and profound moral issues, with significant theoretical and analytic sophistication and a fine mastery of historical detail. Canadian knowledge of southern Africa, and of politics and development in Africa generally, owe much to the high quality, committed scholarship of John Saul. SHORT Africanist John Saul is a significant participant in national policy debates in the Republic of South Africa and other countries in the Southern African region, and even, as a long-time anti-apartheid writer and activist, in Canada itself. His work addresses major development problems and moral issues, with significant theoretical and analytic sophistication and a fine mastery of historical detail. Canadian knowledge of politics and development in Africa owe much to his high quality, committed scholarship.

Shelley Saunders is an international leader in physical anthropology, whose research in skeletal biology has significantly advanced our understanding of growth, health, disease, mortality and demography in past human societies. She has conducted extensive studies of archaeological skeletal remains, including pre- and post-contact aboriginals of the Canadian Northeast, European immigrants to Canada, Egyptian pharaohs, as well as medieval French and ancient Roman populations. She pioneered an ancient and forensic DNA laboratory, as well as graduate training in this field in Canada.

Savory came to Toronto in 1960, as a Visiting Professor from the University of London. He was invited to stay and in 1961 joined Professor G. M. Wickens in founding the Department of Islamic Studies. In 1965 he became Associate Chairman, succeeding Professor Wickens as Chairman in 1968. Savory is one of a handful of world experts on Iranian history and Persian affairs generally. He is perhaps 'the' Western expert on the 16th/17th centuries in particular. A series of major articles on that period is acknowledged, particularly in the highly critical academic world of France and Germany, as standard work for decades to come. Among Islamists, Savory and his period are practically synonymous. His present major project is a critical study of traditional Iranian society.

Updated July 8, 2015 SCHIMMELPENNINCK VAN DER OYE, David, Department of History, Brock University David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is North America's leading historian of Russian international relations. Working at the intersections of diplomatic, intellectual, cultural and military history, he is internationally respected for his ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of Russia's ambiguous relationship with Asia past and present. His extensive work in Russian, Central Asian, and European archives have yielded publications translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Finnish, German and Russian.

Updated July 8, 2015 David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye est le historien le plus éminent en Amérique du Nord des relations internationales russes. Travaillant à l'intersection de l'histoire diplomatique, intellectuelle, culturelle et militaire, il est mondialement renommé pour ses contributions novatrices à notre compréhension de la relation ambiguë de la Russie avec l'Asie au passé et le présent. Ses recherches considérables dans les archives russes, d'Asie centrale, et européennes ont produit des publications traduits en japonais, chinois, espagnol, français, néerlandais, finlandais, allemand et russe.