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.
[2] Milanich's research interests include Eastern United States archeology, pre-Columbian Southeastern U.S. native peoples, and colonial period native American-European/Anglo relations in the America.
[1] In May 1987 he was cited in a New York Times article on de Soto written by John Noble Wilford.
[3] 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.