Jeffrey Kaplan (born 1954) was an American academic who has written and edited a number of books on

racism Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...

religious violence Religious violence covers phenomena in which religion is either the target or perpetrator of violent behavior. All the religions of the world contain narratives, symbols, and metaphors of violence and war and also nonviolence and peacemaking. ...

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war aga ...

and the

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

. He was an associate professor of religion at the

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and a member of the board of academic advisors of the university's Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence and Memory. Kaplan formerly sat on the

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s of the journals '' Terrorism and Political Violence'', ''

Nova Religio ''Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering religious studies, focusing on the academic study of new religious movements. It was established in 1997 by Seven Bridges ...

'' and '' The Pomegranate''.

Early life and education

Kaplan was born in 1954. He earned an M.A. in

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from

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in 1981, an M.A. in

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from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (

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) in 1989, and earned a Ph.D. in the history of culture from the

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in 1993. His

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was titled "Revolutionary Millenarianism in the Modern World: From

Christian Identity Christian Identity (also known as Identity Christianity) is an interpretation of Christianity which advocates the belief that only Celtic and Germanic peoples, such as the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic nations, or the Aryan race and kindred peoples, are ...

to Gush Emunim".

Career

Kaplan was an associate professor of history at Iḷisaġvik College in Utqiagvik, Alaska. Kaplan was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant for a project on "The Emergence of a Violent Euro-American Radical Right" with Leonard Weinberg. Kaplan occupied the Bicentennial

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Chair in American Studies at the

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from 1998 to 1999.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaplan, Jeffrey American religion academics 1954 births Living people People from Utqiagvik, Alaska University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh faculty Researchers of new religious movements and cults Academics and writers on far-right politics Iḷisaġvik College faculty Scholars of terrorism