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| education = MA, PhD
| education = [[Colorado State University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br />[[Tufts University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br />[[University of Chicago]] ([[PhD]])
| employer = [[University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh]]
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==Publications==
==Publications==
*{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right |last2=Weinberg |first2=Leonard |publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=0-8135-2563-2 |location=New Brunswick |language=en |author-mask=2}}
*''Radical Religion in America: [[Millenarian]] Movements From the Far Right to the [[Children of Noah]]'' (1997). Published by [[Syracuse University Press]] as a 245-page hardcover ({{ISBN|0815626878}}) and paperback ({{ISBN|0815603967}}).
*''[[Nation and Race|Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture]]'' (1998; co-edited with [[Tore Bjørgo]]). Published in [[Boston]] by [[Northeastern University Press]] as a 273-page hardcover ({{ISBN|1555533329}}) and paperback ({{ISBN|1555533310}}).
*{{Cite book |title=Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture |title-link=Nation and Race |publisher=[[Northeastern University Press]] |year=1998 |isbn=1-55553-332-9 |editor-last=Kaplan |editor-first=Jeffrey |editor-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |editor-mask=2 |location=Boston |language=en |author-mask=2 |editor-last2=Bjørgo |editor-first2=Tore |editor-link2=Tore Bjørgo}}
*{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right |title-link=Encyclopedia of White Power |publisher=[[AltaMira Press]] |year=2000 |isbn=0-7425-0340-2 |location=Walnut Creek |language=en |author-mask=2}}
*''The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right'' (1998; co-authored with Leonard Weinberg). Published in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], by [[Rutgers University Press]] as a 238-page hardcover ({{ISBN|0813525632}}) and paperback ({{ISBN|0813525640}}).
*''Beyond the Mainstream: The Emergence of [[Religious Pluralism]] in [[Finland]], [[Estonia]], and [[Russia]]'' (2000). Published in [[Helsinki]] by [[Finnish Literature Society|SKS]] as a 386-page hardcover? ({{ISBN|9517461801}}).
*{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=Beyond the Mainstream: The Emergence of Religious Pluralism in Finland, Estonia, and Russia |publisher=[[Finnish Literature Society|SKS]] |year=2000 |isbn=95-1746-180-1 |location=Helsinki |language=en |author-mask=2}}
*{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements From the Far Right to the Children of Noah |publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]] |year=2001 |isbn=0-8156-2687-8 |language=en |author-mask=2}}
*''[[Encyclopedia of White Power|Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right]]'' (2000). Published in [[Walnut Creek, California]], by [[Altamira Press]] as a 585-page hardcover in 2000 ({{ISBN|0742503402}}).
*''The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization'' (2002; co-edited with {{ill|Heléne Lööw|sv}}). Published in [[Walnut Creek, California]], by [[AltaMira Press]] as a 353-page hardcover ({{ISBN|0759102031}}) and paperback ({{ISBN|075910204X}}).
*{{Cite book |title=The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization |publisher=[[AltaMira Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=0-7591-0203-1 |editor-last=Kaplan |editor-first=Jeffrey |editor-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |editor-mask=2 |location=Walnut Creek |language=en |author-mask=2 |editor-last2=Lööw |editor-first2=Heléne}}
*{{Cite book |title=Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future |publisher=[[Frank Cass]] |year=2002 |isbn=0-7146-5294-6 |editor-last=Kaplan |editor-first=Jeffrey |editor-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |editor-mask=2 |location=London; Portland |language=en |author-mask=2}}
*''Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future'' (2002; as editor). Originally appearing as a special issue of ''[[Terrorism and Political Violence]]'' (Vol. 14, No. 1; Spring 2002), it was published in London and [[Portland, Oregon]] by [[Routledge|F. Cass]] as a 318-page hardcover ({{ISBN|0714652946}}) and paperback ({{ISBN|0714682594}}).
*{{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature |publisher=[[Thoemmes Continuum]] |year=2005 |isbn=1-84371-138-9 |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=Bron |editor-link=Bron Taylor |location=London; New York |language=en |author-mask=2 |editor-last2=Kaplan |editor-first2=Jeffrey |editor-link2=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |editor-mask2=2}}
*''[http://www.religionandnature.com/ern/index.htm The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature]'' (2005; consulting editor, with [[editor-in-chief]] [[Bron Taylor]]). Published in London and New York by [[Thoemmes Continuum]] in 2 volumes, totaling 1877 pages, in hardcover ({{ISBN|1843711389}}). It was published in paperback in 2008 ({{ISBN|1847062733}})
* ''Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism: Terrorism's Fifth Wave'' (2010). Published in [[Abingdon, Oxon]], and New York by [[Routledge]] as a 235-page hardcover ({{ISBN|0415453380}}) and e-book ({{ISBN|0203857526}}).
* {{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism: Terrorism's Fifth Wave |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-415-45338-7 |location=Abingdon; New York |language=en |author-mask=2}}
* ''Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies'' Published in New York by Routledge as a 496-page hardcover ({{ISBN|0415814146}})
* {{Cite book |last=Kaplan |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Kaplan (academic) |title=Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-415-81414-0 |location=New York |language=en |author-mask=2}}


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 16:00, 10 August 2024

Jeffrey Kaplan
Born1954 (age 69–70)
United States
EducationMA, PhD
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Occupation(s)Professor, author
EmployerUniversity of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
Known forResearch 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]

Education

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]

Career

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]

Publications

  • ——; Weinberg, Leonard (1998). The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2563-2.
  • ——; Bjørgo, Tore, eds. (1998). Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture. Boston: Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-332-9.
  • —— (2000). Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-7425-0340-2.
  • —— (2000). Beyond the Mainstream: The Emergence of Religious Pluralism in Finland, Estonia, and Russia. Helsinki: SKS. ISBN 95-1746-180-1.
  • —— (2001). Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements From the Far Right to the Children of Noah. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0-8156-2687-8.
  • ——; Lööw, Heléne, eds. (2002). The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-7591-0203-1.
  • ——, ed. (2002). Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future. London; Portland: Frank Cass. ISBN 0-7146-5294-6.
  • —— (2005). Taylor, Bron; —— (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. London; New York: Thoemmes Continuum. ISBN 1-84371-138-9.
  • —— (2010). Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism: Terrorism's Fifth Wave. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-45338-7.
  • —— (2015). Radical Religion and Violence: Theory and Case Studies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-81414-0.

References

  1. ^ a b "Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence and Memory – Board of Academic Advisors". Archived from the original on 2018-08-17. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  2. ^ "Religious Studies Faculty". University of Wisconsin. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Revolutionary millenarianism in the modern world from Christian identity ..." Online Catalog of the Library of Congress. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  4. ^ Kaplan, Jeffrey; Bjørgo, Tore (1998). Nation and Race. p. 260. ISBN 9781555533328. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  5. ^ "The Emergence of a Violent Euro-American Radical Right". Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
  6. ^ "North American Studies – Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies". University of Helsinki. Archived from the original on 15 January 2006. Retrieved 12 June 2015.