Nationality United States | Name Jerald Milanich | |
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Notable awards Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Archaeological Council Fields Anthropologist, Archaeology Books Archaeology of Precolum, Hidden Seminoles: Julian Di, The Timucua, Florida Indians and the in, Florida's Indians from anci |
The florida book awards 2011 award winner interview with jerald t milanich
Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida; and Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Milanich holds a Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Florida.
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Milanich has won several awards for his books. Milanich won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Archaeological Council in 2005 and the Dorothy Dodd Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Historical Society in 2013. He was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Milanich's research interests include Eastern United States archeology, precolumbian Southeastern U.S. native peoples, and colonial period native American-European/Anglo relations in the America. In May 1987 he was cited in a New York Times article:
Milanich is married to anthropologist Maxine Margolis.