The University of Victoria has several visiting scholar programs which invite first rate scholars from around the world to come to Victoria for a week or a term to give a series of lectures and to participate in the life of the university.

Past Visiting Scholars

2011 J.K. (Jack) Chambers, University of Toronto, Canada
2011 Dr. Daming Xu, Nanjing University, China
2010 Sandra Chung, UC Santa Cruz
2009 John Ohala, UC Berkeley
2007 Rod Ellis, University of Auckland
2007 Elizabeth Ritter, University of Calgary
2006 Donall O Baoill, Queen's University, Belfast
2005 Merrill Swain, University of Toronto
2004 Rob Amery, University of South Australia
2003 Leanne Hinton, University of California Berkeley
2002 Morris Halle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001 Keren Rice, University of Toronto
2000 Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University
1997 David Nunan, University of Hong Kong
1995 Derek Bickerton, University of Hawaii, Emeritus
1994 John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1993 Jack Richards, Regional Language Centre
1992 Marianne Mithun, University of California at Santa Barbara
1991 Emmon Bach, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1990 Peter Fries, Central Michigan University
1989 Kenneth Hale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988 Teun van Dijk, University of Amsterdam
1986 Osamu Fujimura, Ohio State University
1985 Geoffrey Pullum, University of California at Santa Cruz
1984 Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology