Each year a senior scholar of distinction is invited to visit the CRRS to share his or her current research with the faculty and graduate students in Toronto and its vicinity, and to give two seminars. The program is designed to make possible informal contact between the visitor and local scholars.
| 1983 | Paul O. Kristeller | 1997 | Michael J.B. Allen |
| 1984 | Charles Trinkaus | 1998 | Richard McCoy |
| 1985 | John Tedeschi | 1999 | Charles Nauert |
| 1986 | Nicholas Barker | 2000 | Anne Lake Prescott |
| 1987 | ------------------ | 2001 | Elisabeth Gleason |
| 1988 | Heiko Oberman | 2002 | Margaret Bent |
| 1989 | Samuel Edgerton | 2003 | Susan Karant Nunn |
| 1990 | Annabel Patterson | >2004 | Charles Fantazzi> |
| 1991 | Terence Cave | 2005 | William B. Taylor |
| 1992 | Eugene F. Rice, Jr. | 2006 | Ann Rosalind Jones |
| 1993 | Peter Blayney | 2007 | John Najemy |
| 1994 | Ian Maclean | 2008 | Leslie Peirce |
| 1995 | Margaret King | 2009 | Andrew Pettegree |
| 1996 | Nicholas Mann |