Jeffrey Kaplan

Who is Jeffrey Kaplan?

Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan 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.

Dr. Kaplan sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals Terrorism and Political Violence, Nova Religio and The Pomegranate.

Previously, Dr. Kaplan was an Associate Professor of History at Ilisagvik College in Barrow, Alaska.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for a project on "The Emergence of a Violent Euro-American Radical Right" with Leonard Weinberg. Kaplan also occupied the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland from 1998–1999.