Jeffrey Kaplan | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
Nationality | American |
Education | Colorado State University (MA) Tufts University (MA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Professor, author |
Employer | University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh |
Known for | Research on extremism |
Jeffrey Kaplan (born 1954) is an American academic who has written and edited a number of books on racism, religious violence, terrorism and the far-right. He is an associate professor of religion at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a member of the board of academic advisors of the university's Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence and Memory.[1]
Kaplan sits on the editorial boards of the journals Terrorism and Political Violence, Nova Religio and The Pomegranate.[1]
Kaplan earned an M.A. in Linguistics from Colorado State University in 1981, a M.A. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1989, and earned a Ph.D. in the history of culture from the University of Chicago in 1993.[2] His thesis was titled "Revolutionary Millenarianism in the Modern World: From Christian Identity to Gush Emunim".[3]
Kaplan was an associate professor of history at Iḷisaġvik College in Utqiagvik, Alaska.[4]
Kaplan was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for a project on "The Emergence of a Violent Euro-American Radical Right" with Leonard Weinberg.[5] Kaplan occupied the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland from 1998 to 1999.[6]