A pioneer social historian, Joy Parr has made womens' history and the history of the family central concerns in her discipline. Her two major works, "Labouring Children" and "The Gender of Breadwinners", are at once scholarly works of great subtlety and power as well as touching, human documents that have reached a broad audience. Her scholarship has been recognized with the Canadian Historical Association's highest honour, the Macdonald Prize. Her essays and collections have reshaped Canadian history and helped connect it to an international literature on gender relations, economic change and the family.

Richard J. Pearson, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, has won an international reputation for his indefatiguable research on the archaeology of East Asia. His many publications deal with the culture history of eastern Canada, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia. Although his interpretive interests range widely, from palaeoecology to the development of social complexity and the study of art history, he has never sacrificed quality to breadth. His "The Archaeology of the Ryukyu Islands" is the major synthesis of the prehistory of this important region. His publications play a major role in keeping Western archaeologists informed about important advances relating to the archaeology of Japan, Korea, and China.

Professor Penelhum is one of the best-known Canadian philosophers now writing in the analytic tradition. While serving his university with distinction as chairman, dean and governor, and his profession as a founder, and later president, of the Canadian Philosophical Association, he has made incisive and strikingly original contributions to his subject through numerous books, articles and public addresses, and has been a major influence on the course of philosophical inquiry in Canada, His work has been in three overlapping areas: philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of David Hume. Its common focus has been on the problem of personal identity, on which he is an international authority. He is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Calgary.

Cranford Pratt has already distinguished himself as an outstanding Canadian scholar in the field of African studies. Six years of his academic career have been spent in Africa, four of them as the first Principal of the University College, Dar es Salaam, which is large measure his creation. It is, however, as a scholar that he is best known: his work on the political problems of newly-independent developing nations has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to Western understanding of them.

EDWIN GEORGE PULLEYBLANK, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, returned to his native Canada in 1966, after occupying the chair in Chinese at Cambridge University. His combination of mastery of two fields, of early Chinese history and of Chinese linguistics, has made him outstanding in a highly selected group of world scholars. His early historical books were followed by an increasing involvement in linking historical data with linguistic features that has culminated in his internationally recognized "Dictionary of Middle Chinese".

Zenon Pylyshyn is internationally recognized for his contributions to the establishment and development of the field of Cognitive Science. His research and writing on the 'architecture of the mind' and the computational processes involved in human perception and reasoning has led to over 60 scientific articles and six books, among them the now classic "Computation and Cognition" published in 1984. His numerous honors and awards include the Donald 0. Hebb award for distinguished contributions to the science of psychology, a Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the presidency of the Cognitive Science Society. He served for nine years as National Director of the program in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research before taking up his present post as Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.

S.J. Rachman, University of British Columbia, is a leading investigator in the areas of personality, clinical psychology and behavioural medicine. He has contributed significantly to the assessment of the effects of psychotherapy; to the understanding of the relationships between normal and neurotic cognition and emotion; and to the development of increasingly sophisticated techniques of behavioural therapy. His integrative theoretical and empirical work produced advances both in basic theory and in treatment. He is the Director of a major Canadian program in clinical psychology, holds important editorships, and has received numerous honors.

Balachandra Rajan, who was born in Burma, holds three degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a member of the Foreign Service of India from 1948-61, and during six of those years he served India at the United Nations. Subsequently he was a Professor of English in Delhi University, and in the universities of Wisconsin, Windsor, and Western Ontario. As an urbane and learned critic, and a prolific writer of books and articles, he has had a great influence in two fields of English Literature: the seventeenth century and Moderns. No important work on Milton, Yeats, or Eliot fails to acknowledge Dr. Rajan's work. Since 1966 he has been a regular reviewer of books on Milton for the "Times Literary Supplement". Ceased reviewing in 1975. Since his election to the Royal Society of Canada in 1975, he published The Overwhelming Question. Astudy of the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (Toronto: University of toronto Press, 1976), The Form of the Unfinished. english Poem from Spenser to Pound (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), Under Western Eyes. India from Milton to Mccaulay (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). He edited The Presence of Milton (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, Milton Studios XI, 1979), and co-edited Milton and the Imperial Vision (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1999) He was President of the Milton Society of America in 1972. Now a Canadian citizen, Dr. Rajan has gained for our country, by his erudition, sensitivity, authority, and graceful style, one more reputation of unquestioned international status.

Dr. Stephen J. Randall has been making a significant contribution to the study of American foreign policy, United States-Latin American relations, and Canadian-American relations for almost twenty years. Dr. Randall's strength as a scholar and historian is apparent in all of his scholarly writing. He has a reputation for balance, judicious analysis, and fairness. His work is consistently based on extensive research in American and non-American sources. All of it is placed in appropriate contexts. Dr. Randall is also a social historian, and works in business history, economic history, and Canadian-Latin American relations. He has been very active in attempting to strengthen Canadian academic relations with Mexico and Latin American countries, and he has worked hard both at McGill University and at The University of Calgary in broadening University contacts with the larger community. Widely praised by both graduate and undergraduate students as an excellent teacher and supervisor, he has a large number of successful Masters and Doctoral students to his credit. Dr. Randall is a scholar of broad national and international reputation, greatly in demand as an author and speaker in Canada, the United States and Latin America, whose opinions on Canadian-American relations, petroleum policy, and American-Latin American relations have been increasingly sought by the scholarly and business community over the last decade.

Donald Bruce Redford, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Toronto, has distinguished himself as philologist, historian and archaeologist. Author of a score of articles and three books, he has also participated in numerous excavations in Jordan and Egypt. He is Director of the Akhenaten Temple Project which is reconstructing the scenes on the walls of a temple dismantled in antiquity. This vast jigsaw is being assembled from over 35,000 scattered limestone blocks. Professor Redford's contributions in the field and in his publications have played an important part in putting the University of Toronto in the forefront of Egyptological studies.

E.J.Revell, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto, is a scholar's scholar, inter- national in reputation. Among Hebrew grammarians few can equal the depth and breadth of his learning. Even among Israeli scholars he is recognized and consulted as an authority. His work in Hebrew linguistics, grammar, and history of grammar is regarded by his peers as definitive. Revell has also worked in Arabic, Syriac, and Greek, usually for the light they shed on common linguistic phenomena such as stress patterns, musical chants, and syntactic problems.