Dr. Jeffrey Milligan

Associate Professor

Jeffrey Ayala Milligan is an associate professor of philosophy of education and sociocultural/international development education studies. His research explores the challenges posed by religious tensions in the educational systems of multicultural, religiously diverse communities in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. He is the author of two books--Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality and Educational Policy: Schooling and Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Southern Philippines (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School: The Teacher as Prophetic Pragmatist (Lanham: University Press of America, 2002)--and more than twenty refereed articles in Philosophy of Education, Comparative Education Review, Journal of Thought, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Educational Foundations, Religious Education and other academic journals. He has been the recipient of two Fulbright Senior Fellowships (Philippines, 1999 and Malaysia, 2006), a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Coolidge Fellowship from the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life and research/creativity grants totaling more than $200,000. He is a fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society and a member of the International Network of Philosophers of Education, the Comparative and International Education Society, the American Educational Studies Association, and American Educational Research Association, and the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society.


				Dr. Jeffrey Milligan Associate Professor Jeffrey Ayala Milligan is an associate professor of philosophy of education and sociocultural/international development education studies. His research explores the challenges posed by religious tensions in the educational systems of multicultural, religiously diverse communities in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. He is the author of two books--Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality and Educational Policy: Schooling and Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Southern Philippines (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School: The Teacher as Prophetic Pragmatist (Lanham: University Press of America, 2002)--and more than twenty refereed articles in Philosophy of Education, Comparative Education Review, Journal of Thought, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Educational Foundations, Religious Education and other academic journals. He has been the recipient of two Fulbright Senior Fellowships (Philippines, 1999 and Malaysia, 2006), a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Coolidge Fellowship from the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life and research/creativity grants totaling more than $200,000. He is a fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society and a member of the International Network of Philosophers of Education, the Comparative and International Education Society, the American Educational Studies Association, and American Educational Research Association, and the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society.