Batten Endowed Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women's Studies at Old Dominion University
About
Amy K. Milligan is the Batten Endowed Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women's Studies at Old Dominion University, where she is also the director of the Institute of Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding. She is the author of Hair, Headwear, and Orthodox Jewish Women: Kallah's Choice (Lexington, 2014), as well as numerous journal articles on Jewish embodiment. As an ethnographer, she explores the folkloric manifestations of selfhood and identity on the body and uses these questions of bodylore to consider lived experiences of gender, sexuality, and Jewishness. Her work also probes the experiences of small or marginalized Jewish communities.
Current Work:
Dr. Amy Milligan recently completed her second book, Jewish Bodylore: Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices (Lexington) and is currently working on a third manuscript on the last Jews of Selma, Alabama. Her research centers on different ways the Jewish body is experienced at the intersections of gender and sexuality, as well as the role of marginalized voices in Jewish folk practice.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Jewish, Judaism, gender, sexuality, body
