Dr. Will C. van den Hoonaard, Emeritus Professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) had an engaging life conducting research in Canada, Iceland, and the United States. He has accrued a variety of life experiences that included living in a cave in France as a child and working in a goldmine in one of Canada’s Arctic regions. He served as Alternate Representative of the Dr. Will C. van den Hoonard, Emeritus Professor at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton) had an engaging life conducting research in Canada, Iceland, and the United States. He has accrued a variety of life experiences that included living in a cave in France as a child and working in a goldmine in one of Canada’s Arctic regions. He served as Alternate Representative of the Baha’I International Community to the United Nations in New York.

With wide-ranging interests he has contributed articles and books in a number of fields such as the history behind the discovery of the Dead-Sea scrolls, and his research on women mapmakers. His s scholarly life also grappled with ethnographies of Icelandic fishing villages, qualitative research, the contributions that women mapmakers during the past 700 years, the recent settlement of the Dutch in New Brunswick, and a history of the first 50 years of Canadian Bahá’í history. His book, Working with Sensitizing Concepts, continues to evoke considerable interest.

He authored 15 scholarly books and presented some 345 lectures and articles on many of these topics. He is regarded as a leading scholar in the field of ethics in research and Bahá’í Studies.