Robert John McGhee

Robert John McGhee

Robert John McGhee (born 1941) is a Canadian archaeologist and author specializing in the archaeology of the Arctic. He is currently Curator of Western Arctic Archaeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. He is also currently working at RBC Dexia Investor Services as a Senior Collateral Analyst.

He was born in Wiarton, Ontario in 1941. He studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Calgary, receiving a Ph.D. in 1968. McGhee worked in the Middle East as a student. He went on to study the remains of Martin Frobisher's expedition searching for the Northwest Passage, a 2000-year old village in the Siberian peninsula and an Inuit village at Resolute, Nunavut. He was awarded the Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2000. McGhee is a former president of the Canadian Archaeological Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Selected bibliography

* "The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History Of The Arctic World" (2005) ISBN 0-1951-8368-1
* "The Arctic Voyages Of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure" (2001) ISBN 0-7735-2235-2
* "Ancient People of the Arctic" (1996) ISBN 0-7748-0553-6

External links

* [http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/petra/petra3e.html Robert McGhee biography - Canadian Museum of Civilization]
* [http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=mceacher&t=51950&d=1046 Entry from Canadian Who's Who]


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