Jeffrey Kaplan (academic)

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.^[1]

Dr. Kaplan sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals Terrorism and Political Violence, Nova Religio and The Pomegranate.^[1]

Previously, Dr. Kaplan was an Associate Professor of History at Ilisagvik College in Barrow, Alaska.^[2]

He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for a project on "The Emergence of a Violent Euro-American Radical Right" with Leonard Weinberg.^[3] Kaplan also occupied the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland from 1998–1999.^[4]

Publications

• Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture (Co-edited with Tore Bjørgo) (1995)
• Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements From the Far Right to the Children of Noah (1997)
• The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right (Co-authored with Leonard Weinberg) (1998)
• Beyond The Mainstream: The Emergence Of Religious Pluralism In Finland, Estonia And Russia (2000)
• Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right (2000)
• The Cultic Milieu (2002)
• Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future (2002);
• The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (consulting editor, with Editor-in-Chief Bron Taylor) (2005)

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