Jerald T. Milanich

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name = Dr. Jerald Milanich

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nationality = United States
field = Anthropologist
Archaeologist
work_institutions = Florida Museum of Natural History
alma_mater = University of Florida
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prizes = Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Archaeological Council

Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is the curator 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.

In 2005, Milanich won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Archaeological Council.

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: [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDF1F31F93AA25756C0A961948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all "De Soto's Trail: Courage and Cruelty Come Alive"] and [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50717F834550C708CDDA80994DE484D81 "Experts Debte Theory On Columbus"] ]

Milanich is married to anthropologist Maxine Margolis.

Recent Books

*" Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Oddities: A New York City Journalist in Nineteenth-Century Florida". Gainesville, University Press of Florida (2005)
*"Florida's Lost Tribes--Through the Eyes of an Artist" Gainesville, University Press of Florida. (With artist Theodore Morris.) (2004)
*"Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians" Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press. (1999)
*"Famous Florida Sites--Mt. Royal and Crystal River" Gainesville, University Press of Florida (1999)
*"Florida's Indians From Ancient Times to the Present" Gainesville, University Press of Florida (1998)

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External links

* [http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/directory/cvs/jtm_cv.htm Florida Museum of Natural History page]
* [http://www.archaeology.org/0511/abstracts/letter.html Archeology Magazine - Letter From Arizona: Homeless Collections]
* [http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050517achievement.php Museum curator wins archaeological achievement award ]