In 2016, he was awarded the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Outstanding Early Career Award and in 2019 he received the Arts Excellence in Research award from the University of Waterloo. In 2020, recognizing his track record of research and advocacy, the Association of Canadian Archivists awarded Milligan the Honourary Archivist Award. Finally, in 2022 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Since 2013, Milligan has been principal investigator of over $2.3 million in grant award funding, primarily dedicated to building sustainable research infrastructure.
Milligan is currently co-editor of Internet Histories and was a co-program chair of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. He has an extensive interdisciplinary service record, sitting on selection committees for multiple granting agencies as well as sitting on the steering committee for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. At Waterloo, Milligan has served both on the University Senate and the Board of Governors. More broadly, Milligan has served on advisory boards or committees with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Library and Archives Canada, Library of Congress, and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
He lives in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with his partner, son, and daughter.
You can read his full CV here, or his website here.
Education
- B.A. (Hons) Canadian History, Queen's University, 2006
- M.A. Canadian History, York University, 2007
- Ph.D Canadian History, York University, 2012
Research and teaching interests
- Canada
- Digital
- Social Movements
Courses taught
- HIST 109 Ten Days That Shook the World
- HIST 216 (Long) History of the Internet
- HIST 250 The Art and Craft of History
- HIST 303 Digital History
- ARTS 490 Socio-Cultural Implications of AI
- HIST 602 Canadian History II
- HIST 610 Digital History
- HIST 710 Canadian History Major Field
Key Areas of Graduate Supervision
- Postwar Canada
- Digital history
- Historical methodologies
- Internet/Web history