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Lynne Milgram is a Canadian cultural anthropologist whose research explores the commercialization of crafts, the operation of craft cooperatives, and issues in gender and development in the Philippines where she is affiliated as a Research Associate with the Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio. She is a professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD).

Early life
She was born in Toronto, Ontario the eldest of three children and received her at BA at the University of Toronto. She did her post graduate work at York University receiving her Ph.D in 1997.

Research
Milgram's current research ask questions about how women earn livelihoods in Northern Philippines sometimes in what the government considers illegal activity She explores Philippine women and the secondhand clothing trade (called ukay-ukay, meaning to sift, or dig in) both within the Philippines and between the Philippines and Hong Kong. She suggests that since the early 1990s with the growing trade in secondhand clothing from Northern to Southern countries, Philippine women and men have used this transnational trade to realize new opportunities in work and consumption.

She is also researching a fair trade women's cooperative in urban Manila, Philippines that uses recycled plastic juice drink containers to manufacture a variety of fashion accessories and home furnishings, exploring the extent to which these women have been able to utilize fair trade networks to market their products internationally.

Books

 * 2000 Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy, eds., Kimberly M. Grimes and B. Lynne Milgram. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
 * 1994 The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia, eds., B. Lynne Milgram and Penny Van Esterik. Montreal & Toronto: Canadian Asian Studies Association and the Museum for Textiles.

Articles and chapters

 * 2000 "Reorganizing Production for Global Markets: Women and Craft Cooperatives in Ifugao, Upland Philippines." Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy, eds., Kimberly M. Grimes and B. Lynne Milgram. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
 * 2000 "Situating Handicraft Market Women in Ifugao, Upland Philippines: A Case for Multiplicity". Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares, ed., Linda J. Seligmann. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
 * (forthcoming) Operationalizing Development: Women and Microfinance in Ifugao, Upland Philippines. Human Organization.
 * (forthcoming) "Women's Work, Modernity and the Global Economy: Negotiating Gender and Crafts in Ifugao", Upland Philippines. Gender and the Economy, ed., Gracia Clark. Landham, MD: University Press of America.

Selected awards and grants

 * 2009 OCAD Distinguished Research and Creation Award
 * 2008-2011 Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
 * 2008 R.L. Shep Textile Book Award. Textile Society of America
 * 2004-2007 Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
 * 1997-1999 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
 * 1997 Harold K. Schneider Prize in Economic Anthropology, Graduate Student Paper Competition, Honourable Mention. Awarded by the Society for Economic Anthropology.
 * 1994 Canada/ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Centre Academic Support Program, Student Research Grant
 * 1993 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Department of Social Anthropology, York University
 * Graduate Development Research Costs Award, Faculty of Arts, York University
 * 1990 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Ministry of Education