History professor Bill Waiser and English professor Len Findlay will be inducted into the Society at a Nov. 17th ceremony in Edmonton. Members of the society are selected by their peers for outstanding contributions in their fields. A total of 80 new Fellows were named today by the Society.

"The U of S is proud that the extraordinary talent and expertise of these two distinguished academics has been recognized with this prestigious national honor," said U of S President Peter MacKinnon.

Professor Waiser is known to thousands of Saskatchewan people as the author of the highly acclaimed Saskatchewan: A New History (2005) and as host of Looking Back: Saskatchewan History on CBC television (1999-2001). Other honours bestowed upon Waiser include the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (2006) and being named a U of S Distinguished Researcher (2004).

His RSC citation reads in part: "W.A. (Bill) Waiser combines an impressive record of scholarly publication with effective communication of scholarship to the general public and service to his professional peers to make a profound contribution both to the academic world and Canada's general citizenry....These practices extend Waiser's valuable scholarship from the ivory tower to the public square."

Professor Findlay is director of the U of S Humanities Research Unit and has served as the Northrop Frye Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Toronto. He has worked closely with the Canadian Centre for Native Law, University of Saskatchewan International, and the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and has served as senior policy analyst with the universities branch of the Saskatchewan government.

Findlay's citation reads: "Len Findlay has produced influential work on Romantic and Victorian authors and movements. He has more recently turned to the reciprocal nineteenth-century flows of radical thought between Europe and Canada, and to the failure of Canadian radicals to show common cause with Canada's First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. For the past decade, he has collaborated with Aboriginal colleagues in defining and promoting the Indigenous Humanities."

Today's announcement brings to 16 the number of U of S Society members. A complete list is available at: www.rsc.ca
After induction into the Society, Fellows are allowed to use FRSC for Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada after their names.

The Society has a current membership of more than 1,700 Fellows who are recognized as the leaders in their fields.

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