Robert Goodby

Robert Goodby is a professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, holds a PhD from Brown University, and has spent forty years studying Native American archaeological sites in New England. He has served as president of the NH Archeological Society and on the NH Commission on Native American Affairs. His book, A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History, received a 2021-2023 People’s Choice Award from the NH Writer’s Project.

A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History (Summer Term 2025)

Participant Testimonials:

I loved this course. It radiates with the scholarship and human spirit of the instructor by his interdisciplinary knowledge poured into the experience of his archeological excavations--in the public interest. 

The Study Leader humanized archaeology by explaining some of his thought process as he presented his work and by being unusually capable of seeing the connection between the past and the present, and his awareness that the importance of the stone tools is the people who were using them.