Marianna Torgovnick, Associate Chair of English Department; Professor of English, Duke University: 1981.
Robert Edward Tracy, Emeritus Professor of English and Celtic Studies, University of California, Berkeley: 1981.
Billie Lee Turner II, Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, Clark University: 1981.
Frederick Turner, Writer; Founders Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson: 1981.
Donald Robert Uhlmann, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson: 1981.
Eugene Charles Ulrich, Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, University of Notre Dame: 1981.
John Von Hartz, Writer, New York City: 1981.
David B. Wake, Professor of Integrative Biology, Curator of Herpetology, and Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley: 1981.
John Walker, Artist, Brookline, Massachusetts: 1981.
Gerald C. Weales, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Pennsylvania: 1981.
Michael Weil, Film Maker, San Francisco: 1981.
Otto Karl Werckmeister, Mary Jane Crowe Distinguished Professor of Art History, Northwestern University: 1981.
Roger J. B. Wets, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis: 1981.
David Anthony Wevill, Poet; Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin: 1981.
Lourdes Arizpe, Research Professor of Social Anthropology, College of Mexico, Mexico City: 1981.
Paulo Bruscky, Artist, Recife, Brazil: 1981.
Carlos F. Bunge, Senior Research Physicist, Institute of Physics, and Professor of Physics and Chemistry, Biomedical Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City: 1981.
German Cáceres, Composer; president, El Salvador Council for Music: 1981.
Adolfo Canitrot, Senior Research Economist, Center for Studies of the State and Society, Buenos Aires: 1981.
Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino, Professor of Linguistics and Director, Center for Applied Linguistics, National University of San Marcos, Lima: 1981.
Miguel Cervantes, Artist, Mexico City: 1981.
Teresa del Conde, director, Museum of Fine Arts, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City: 1981.
Néstor García Canclini, Research Professor of Social Anthropology, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City; director, Center for Documentation and Research, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City: 1981.
Belita Koiller, Professor of Physics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: 1981.
Daniel Leyva, Poet; Assistant Director of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Relations, Mexico, D.F.: 1981.
Sergio Miceli Pessôa de Barros, Fuel Professor of Sociology, University of São Paulo: 1981.
Lygia Carvalho Pape, Artist; Adjunct Professor, Center for Architecture and Art, Santa Ursula University, Rio de Janeiro: 1981.