He spent the following year teaching at Northwestern University and subsequently took a position as assistant professor, with the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, and remained there for the rest of his career.
His PhD thesis, entitled 'History and Settlement of Lower Nubia,' argued that four principle parameters determined the density of Nubia over 4,000 years: the height of floods, agricultural techniques, foreign trade and wars. His doctoral work was funded by a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Award. Chang, a Chinese archaeologist, who joined the department during his final year of his PhD. He was co-supervised by William Kelly Simpson and Michael D. He was taught by George Peter Murdock and Benjamin Irving Rouse. Trigger received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. Life īorn in Preston, Ontario (now part of Cambridge), Trigger obtained his undergraduate education at the University of Toronto earning a B.A. He was appointed the James McGill Professor at McGill University in 2001. History and Settlement of Lower Nubia (1964)īruce Graham Trigger OC OQ FRSC (J– December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. University of Toronto (B.A., 1959) Yale University (Ph.D., 1964) Innis-Gérin Medal, Cornplanter Medal, Officer of the National Order of Quebec, Officer of the Order of Canada
