Charles R. Menzies is a Canadian anthropologist and full professor. He is a member of the Gitxaala Nation of northwestern British Columbia and an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.^[1]

Menzies was born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada, as the eldest of three children of Shirley Marie Menzies (née Naud), an elementary school teacher, and Harry Basil Menzies, a commercial fisherman.^[2][3]

Menzies grew up working on his family's commercial fishing boat. As a commercial fisherman^[4] Menzies worked in the halibut longline, salmon seining, and herring seining fisheries.^[2][5]

Menzies graduated from Prince Rupert Secondary School in 1980. He studied anthropology and sociology at Simon Fraser University. He has a MA from York University and a PhD from the City University of New York.^[2][6][7]

Menzies is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Oceans and Fisheries^[8] at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the North Coast of BC^[9] and Brittany, France.^[10] His British Columbia Coast research includes archaeological, ethnographic, and political economic projects.

• Menzies, Charles R. (2016) People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• Menzies, Charles R. (2011) Red Flags and Lace Coiffes: Identity and Survival in a Breton Village. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Menzies, Charles R. (ed.) (2006) Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

• Charles Menzies's webpage
• The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC. Director: Charles Menzies
• Forests and Oceans for the Future