This volume is an outgrowth of the Special Session on Representation Theory and Harmonic Analysis held in honor of Ray Kunze at the 889th meeting of the American Mathematical Society on January 12-15, 1994 (Cincinnati). The mathematicians who gathered together for the special session included many of Kunze's former Ph.D. students, research collaborators, and others whose work has been influenced either directly or indirectly through their associations with Kunze. As the session progressed, it became clear that the papers being presented spanned a wide spectrum of group representations and harmonic analysis and their applications that would be of interest to a more extensive audience.