Amy Milligan

Ph.D. in American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, (2012)

Expertise

Articles

Milligan, A. (2023). Continuous Hope: The Jews of Selma, Alabama. Mosaic: The Alabama Humanities Alliance , pp. 28-30.

Milligan, A. (2023). Witnessing History: Civil Rights and the Jewish Community of Selma, Alabama.. Southern Jewish History , pp. 83-116.

Milligan, A. (2020). Creating Jewish Mothers: A Feminist Ethnographic Investigation of the Interfaith Parenting Circle. Nashim (37) , pp. 37-61 .

Milligan, A. (2019). Embodying Herself: A Jewish Feminist Approach to Body Liberation. , pp. 42-43.

Milligan, A. (2018). The Jewish Zealots of Tobacco Land: The Circuit Riding Rabbi Project’s Impact on Small Town Jews in North Carolina, 1950-1980. Jewish Culture and History.

Milligan, A. (2017). Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Upsherin, Alef-Bet, and the Childhood Navigation of Jewish Gender Identity Symbol Sets. Journal of Children's Folklore 38 , pp. 7-26.

Milligan, A. (2017). Styling Yiddishkeit: Jewish Women and Social-Religious Approaches to Hair and Hair Covering. Jüdisches Museum Berlin Journal 16 , pp. 21-25.

Milligan, A. (2014). Expanding Sisterhood: Jewish Lesbians and Externalizations of Yiddishkeit,. Journal of Lesbian Studies 18 (4) , pp. 437-455.

Books

Milligan, A. (2019). Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices. Lexington Books.

Milligan, A. (2014). Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women: Kallah’s Choice. Lexington Books.

Book Chapters

Milligan, A. (2023). 21st Century Rituals and Customs. The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the Twenty-First Century. (pp. 291-304) New York: Routledge.

Milligan, A. (2022). Hair The Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice (pp. 327-334) New York: Routledge.

Milligan, A. (2019). The Subversive Jewish Feminist Body: Creating Spaces of Protest through Embodiment in Synagogue Life Making Gender in the Intersection of the Human and the Divine (pp. 219-235) Cambridge Scholars Press.

Milligan, A. (2018). Bodylore and Dress The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies New York: Oxford University Press.

Milligan, A. (2018). Settings of Silver: the Feminization of the Sabbath, 1920-1945 Connected Jews: Expressions of Community in Analog and Digital Culture (pp. 69-88) New York: Liverpool University Press.

Milligan, A. (2011). Orthodox Judaism: The Shulchan Arukh (pp. 958-971) Dallas, TX: Schlager Group.

• 2024: Faculty Development Grant, Israel Institute
• 2023: Robert L. Stern Excellence in Teaching Award, Old Dominion University - Arts and Letters
• 2023: Alabama Jewish Folklife Fellowship, Alabama Folklife Association
• 2023: Frances S. Summersell Reserach Fellowship for the Study of the South, University of Alabama
• 2022: Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman Memorial Research Fellowship, American Jewish Archives
• 2022: Wilson Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina Wilson Library
• 2020: Jeffrey B. Spence Award for Interfaith Understanding, Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities
• 2019: Shining Star Award for Teaching, Old Dominion University
• 2019: NEH Summer Institute, Privilege and Prejudice: Jewish History in the American South
• 2019: People to Watch, Penn State University Alumni Association-Harrisburg
• 2019: Rabbi Theodore S. Levy Tribute Fellowship, American Jewish Archives
• 2019: Scholar in Residence, Congregation Beth Israel
• 2019: Southern Jewish Historical Society Research Grant,
• 2019: Summer Research Fellowship Program Grant, Old Dominion University
• 2019: Community Leader Award for Unity, Service, and Leadership, The Urban League of Hampton Roads
• 2018: Innovative Scholarship Award, Association for Jewish Studies Women's Caucus
• 2018: John R. Broderick Diversity Champion Award, Old Dominion University
• 2018: Summer Institute on Genocide Studies and Prevention (selected as one of 18), Keene State College
• 2017: Jim and Diane Shneer Fellowship in Post-Holocaust American Judaism, University of Colorado at Boulder
• 2017: Rubenstein Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Duke University
• 2014: American Academy of Religion: The Status of Women; LGBTIQ Persons; Racial, Ethnic and Minority Persons; and Persons with Disabilities in the Profession, Program Participant (30 selected nationwide), American Academy of Religion
• 2014: Interfaith Leadership and Service Award, Elizabethtown College
• 2013: Called to Lead: Leadership Excellence Award for Student Group Adviser and Mentor, Elizabethtown College
• 2013: Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Award, Elizabethtown College
• 2012: Sue Samuelson Award for Academic Excellence in American Studies, Penn State University – Harrisburg
• 2011: Raphael Patai Prize in Jewish Folklore and Ethnology, American Folklore Society and American Anthropological Association