Jerald T. Milanich Papers

Jerald T. Milanich is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida. He received his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Florida (BA 1967, MA 1968, Ph.D. 1971). His varied research interests include Eastern United States archaeology, Southeastern U.S. native peoples, and colonial period European-aboriginal relations in the New World. He has produced or edited more than fourteen scholarly books and one hundred articles about the prehistory of Florida, early Spanish expeditions, the Spanish colonial mission system, nineteenth century archaeological exploration in Florida, and ethnography of the Seminoles, and also regularly writes features for Archaeology Magazine and other popular science publications. Milanich received 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. He and his wife anthropologist Maxine Margolis live in New York.

More information on Dr. Milanich can be found at the Florida Museum of Natural History website: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/