Professor Leith's principal interest is France in the eighteenth century and the dominant occurrence of that century, the Revolution. The hitherto scarcely used material he has found cast new light on the topic of which he has made his researches the focus - the place of the arts, major and minor, in revolution. This topic has drawn him to study revolution in Russia and in China, as well as to such subjects as education in eighteenth century Europe and the religious views of Voltaire. Leith's work has earned him wide recognition among European scholars, especially in France, where he is a familiar figure at the Sorbonne and in "les Archives Nationales".

Trevor Levere's work in the history of ideas is notable for the range and exactness of his knowledge, not only of the scientific ideas which are his primary concern, but of the historical context in which they develop, and of the philosophical and theological ideas to which they are related. His scholarship in research into primary documentation is matched by a very sharp discrimination in judging implications and influences. His major work, "Affinity and Matter", gained prompt recognition as a classic in its field.

Jane Lewis has made major contributions to the literatures in two fields, the analysis of contemporary public health and welfare policy in Europe and North America, and the history of social welfare, motherhood, marriage and family in twentieth century Britain. Her Canadian work on family adaptations to offshore oil employment, and community medicine in Ontario and Quebec is a key part of her compelling and formative rethinking of the relationships among state interventions, gender and age hierarchies and class differences in households and communities. Her current research on the gendering of European welfare regimes and the history of British and North American social work continues her admirable pattern of simultaneous engagement in pointed and effective contemporary policy analysis and finely textured and original retrospective research.

An economist of uncommon range, Richard Lipsey has made major and enduring advances in customs union theory and welfare economics, in monetary economics, and in macroeconomic dynamics and the analysis of inflation and unemployment and economic growth. Never content with pure theory, he has insisted that economic analysis be verifiable and quantitative, and that it ultimately be the foundation of policy. A distinguished teacher on both sides of the Atlantic, he has influenced and inspired generations of students, not only in person but also through textbooks and contributions to the development of universities.

Margaret Lock is Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Her internationally recognized research focuses on an anthropology of the body, comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge, and the global impact of emerging biomedical technologies. Currently she is researching the post-genomic era and the social and political impact of the knowledge emerging in the burgeoning science of epigenetics. Lock is the author and/or co-editor of 17 books and has published over 200 scholarly articles. Her monograph Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America won six prizes. Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, and the co-authored An Anthropology of Biomedicine are also award-winning volumes. Lock is an Officier de L’Ordre national du Québec, a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Molson and Killam Prizes, and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, in 2011 she received The McGill Medal for Exceptional Academic Achievement and in 2015 was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2010 she has been an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Prof. Rod Macdonald has made outstanding contributions to Canadian legal scholarship, in both its official languages and both its legal vernaculars. His work embraces both socio-legal research and doctrinal analysis, and involves both applied and theoretical projects, in the areas of both public and private law. His recent highly original work on 'critical legal pluralism' has grown out of, and in turn helped to shape, a series of studies on 'access to justice' which have evoked considerable interest not only within the academic community, but in professional and public policy circles as well. His unusual versatility and virtuosity as a scholar is complemented by a deep commitment to collegial collaboration.

James Gordon MacKinnon is certainly one of Canada's leading econometricians and one of the most distinguished econometricians in the world. His two principal contributions are in the development of non-nested hypothesis testing and in the design of specification tests. Both of these are major theoretical and practical advances in the field. They greatly facilitate the acquisition and validation of quantitative knowledge about the economy. He had published many articles on a wide variety of topics in leading international journals, and his recent book "Estimation and Inference in Econometrics" (co-authored with Russell Davidson) is widely recognized as the definitive treatment of the subject.

Kathleen Mahoney has made a significant contribution to legal scholarship in the area of women's rights. Her original research into hate speech, pornography, prostitution and equality law has helped shape legal decisions, law school curriculum and public attitudes. She has been instrumental in promoting and providing education on equality to judges in Canada and around the world.

Susan Mann Trofimenkoff has established an enviable reputation as an historian in both French and English-speaking Canada. Her work has concentrated on two particular areas: the history of nationalism in Quebec and the history of Women. Her three books, "Action française" (1975), "The Dream of Nation" (1982), and "Stanley Knowles; The Man from Winnipeg" (1982) are all characterized by skilled research, originality of interpretation, and a lively, arresting literary style. In her articles on attitudes to women in Quebec, the contribution of women to Canadian intellectual life, and the problems of women in the labour force, Professor Trofimenkoff has made a marked impact on the study of this neglected aspect of Canadian history. She is recognized as an authority in her field.

Michael E. Marmura is one of a very small group of scholars who have won international recognition in the field of mediaeval Islamic philosophy. He is a member of the executive committees of learned societies both in North America and Europe, and of the editorial board of the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science. His published works, which include, five books, twelve chapters in books, and numerous articles in refereed journals, encyclopaedias and proceedings of conferences, are of the highest quality, distinguished particularly by their clarity and their penetrating analysis of the works of mediaeval Islamic philosophers and theologians.

Professor Bryan Massam, Department of Geography, York University, has gained international recognition as an authority on location theory in the social sciences as it relates to rational planning of administrative units. He has written major studies on what is the best place to locate public institutions and other facilities within an area, taking into account all relevant but what are often contradictory social and economic factors. Bringing together concepts from the field of spatial analysis, the characteristics of different kinds of public facilities, and the need to satisfy the perceptions of the population to be served, he has developed increasingly comprehensive syntheses on decision making in the planning process.