'Robert John McGhee' (
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 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 Artic 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
★
Robert McGhee biography - Canadian Museum of Civilization
★
Entry from Canadian Who's Who