Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in

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. He is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the

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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

. 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

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in 2013. He was inducted as a Fellow into the

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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:"De Soto's Trail: Courage and Cruelty Come Alive"
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/ref> Milanich is married to anthropologist Maxine Margolis, also a professor at the University of Florida. They are the parents of historian Nara Milanich, who teaches at Columbia University.

Books

* With Samuel Proctor, editors. ''Tacachale: essays on the Indians of Florida and southeastern Georgia during the historic period''. The University Presses of Florida. (1978) * ''First Encounters: Spanish explorations in the Caribbean and the United States, 1492–1570''. University of Florida Press. (1989) * ''Earliest Hispanic/Native American interactions in the American Southeast''. Garland. (1991) * With Charles Hudson. ''Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida''. University Press of Florida. (1993) * ''Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida''. University Press of Florida. (1994) * ''The Timucua''. Blackwell Publications, Oxford, UK. (1996) * ''Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe''. The University Press of Florida. (1998) * ''Florida Indians from Ancient Times to the Present''. The University Press of Florida. (1998) * ''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 Lost Tribes—Through the Eyes of an Artist'' Gainesville, University Press of Florida. (With artist Theodore Morris.) (2004) * ''Archaeology of northern Florida, A.D. 200–900: the McKeithen Weeden Island culture''. (2004) * ''Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, And Other Oddities: A New York City Journalist in Nineteenth-Century Florida''. Gainesville, University Press of Florida (2005) * ''Laboring in the fields of the Lord: Spanish missions and southeastern Indians''. University Press of Florida. (2006)

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External links

''Archeology Magazine'' – Letter From Arizona: Homeless Collections

Museum curator wins archaeological achievement award
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