Dr. Bourne is an urban geographer who combines impressive contributions to urban spatial theory and the innovative application of analytic perspectives to problem solving, with a deep understanding of the implications of his research to the development and evaluation of public policy. His most impressive contributions have, without doubt, been his pioneering research work on urbanization in Central Canada; his comparative studies of strategies utilized for the regulation of urban systems in Canada, Britain, Sweden, and Australia; and his recent work on housing, the inner city, new urban forms, social polarization, spatial segregation and income inequalities within cities. His critical analyses of philosophical and political matters related to the development of public policy have always been tempered by a touch of realistic humour, a necessary characteristic for a researcher embroiled in the rapidity of change in the Canadian urban system.

Keith R. Bradley, Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, has made a definitive contribution to the study of Roman social history, in particular to the character of the Roman family and the role of slavery in Roman society. His books "Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire" (1987), "Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World" (1989), "Discovering the Roman Family" (1991), and "Slavery and Society at Rome" (1994) have become standard texts, and his numerous articles have had a major impact on the field. Prof. Bradley's scholarship is known above all for its skillful and learned synthesis of ancient literary and archaeological data with more recent history and theory concerning slaves and the family.

MICHAEL BRECHER, B.A. (McGill, 1946), M.A. (Yale, 1948), PH.D. (Yale, 1953), who has held numerous post-doctoral fellowships and travel awards, is R.B. Angus Professor of political science, McGill University, where he was first appointed in 1952. He is author of 25 major articles and nine books: "The Struggle for Kashmir" (1953), "Nehru: A Political Biography" (1959), "The New States of Asia: A Political Analysis" (1963), "Succession in India: A Study in Decision- Making" (1966), "India and World Politics: Krishna Menon's View of the World" (1968), "Political Leadership in India: An Analysis of Elite Attitudes" (1969), and " The Foreign Policy System of Israel: Setting, Images, Process" (1972), "Decisions in Israel's Foreign Policy" (1974), and "Israel, the Korean War and China" (1974). He has applied the theoretical concepts of foreign policy analysis to his own foreign policy interests with a diligence and an insight that have commanded scholarly approbation throughout the world. His studies of the foreign policy of India and of Israel are basic.

Robert Craig Brown's books and scholarly articles, taken together, constitute a first-rank contribution to the history of modern Canada. His primary interest has been in the period since 1896, and he is the co-author of "Canada Since 1896", the standard book on that critical era, one of the finest volumes in the Centenary Series published by McClelland & Stewart. His biography of Sir Robert Borden, published in two volumes in 1975 and 1980, is a massive work of resarch and analysis, a major reinterpretation of early 20th Century Canada, and one of the best biographies of a major political figure since Creighton's "Macdonald". This work, like all of Brown's publications, is characterized by scrupulous scholarship, balanced judgment and careful attention to the niceties of language. Professor Brown has been editor of the "Canadian Historical Review" and president of the Canadian Historical Association, and President of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.

It can be confidently stated that no other student in the discipline of anthropology can match the sensitive insight which Dr. Kenelm Burridge brings to bear upon the interpretation of the ideas and beliefs of other peoples. His work in Malaysia, the Middle East, and above all Australia and New Guinea, has been heightened by a respect for the religious values, the intellectual idioms, and the creative impulses of the peoples with whom he has lived. His influence upon students and colleagues, through his writings and his teaching, has been profound. At this time, when so many intellectual values are being questioned, it is refreshing to be able to pay hommage to a man who excites the minds of his readers and engenders a love of style in research and exposition.

Mireille Calle-Gruber's work represents a major contribution to the areas of the poetics of the French novel, the French feminist novel, and more specifically to the area of the study of the 'nouveau roman'. Her book on "L'Effet fiction. De l'illusion romanesque" is a detailed analysis of the complex relationship between the novelistic text and the strategies of reading it implies. Her books on Michel Butor, on Hélène Cixous, on Claude Ollier, are all innovative works which lead to the methodological renewal of literary studies through a dialectical form of literary criticism. Mireille Calle-Gruber is a world-ranking scholar, an excellent researcher and a very distinguished teacher.

James Maurice Stockford Careless is Professor and Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Toronto. A graduate of Toronto and Harvard universities, he served at Canadian Naval headquarters in the Naval Historical Section and in the Department of External Affairs during the Second World War. In 1945 he joined the Department of History at Toronto, where his interests have been increasingly concentrated upon teaching and research in Canadian history. He is Past President of the Ontario Historical Society and Vice-Chairman of the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario. His general history, "Canada: a Story of Challenge", won the Governor-General's Award for Academic Non-fiction in 1953. In 1959 he published "Brown of the Globe: The Voice of Upper Canada", the first of a two-volume study of George Brown, which won the University of British Columbia's medal for biography. Though his academic career is still in its early stages, Dr. Careless has already given exceptionally distinguished service to the cause of Canadian historical studies.

Marsha Chandler has made an outstanding contribution to the analysis of public policy in Canada. She is one of a handful of political scientists in Canada who have worked effectively with economists and legal scholars to provide a rigorous multidisciplinary perspective on public policy. Chandler has contributed to the analysis of the structures that shape policy making and to the political and economic factors that determine the content of policy. Her scholarship has focussed on urgent issues of public policy, but is always informed by rigorous theoretical interpretation. She ranks-among the foremost scholars in public policy in Canada today.

Professor Ching took the Ph.D. at the Australian National University and taught there and at Yale before accepting the invitation from the University of Toronto. She has been a Distinguished (Mellon) Visiting Professor at Rice University and held visiting professorships at Tübingen and Marburg. Her outstanding scholarly achievements are embodied in seven monographic length studies, four in English, two in Chinese, and one in German, 17 chapters of books, 15 refereed articles, and numerous contributions to encyclopaedia. She has served on no fewer than six editorial boards of learned journals. She is the most distinguished scholar in East Asian philosophy and comparative religious studies in Canada and one of the best known in that field in the world.

Dr. Clements' work significantly revises our understanding of literary modernism. Her book "Baudelaire and the English Tradition" documents with precision, thoroughness and brilliance the influence of Baudelaire on English writers. As co-editor of "A Feminist Companion to Literature in English" she has been responsible for approximately 1000 biographical-critical and topic entries presenting new information about women writers of the last century. This impressive scholarly recovery fundamentally alters our understanding of the literature of the period and lays the necessary basis for a significant and wide range of further work.