Jeffery Kaplan

Jeffery Kaplan, Ph.D.

Director of the "Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence, and Memory"

office: A/C 313

phone: (920) 424-7072

email: kaplan@uwosh.edu

Education:
Ph.D. in the History of Culture from the University of Chicago 1993; M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 1989;
M.A. in Linguistics from Colorado State University 1981.

Interests and expertise:

Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and the Director of the UW Oshkosh Institute for the Study of Religion, Violence and Memory. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals Terrorism and Political Violence (for which he serves as book review editor), Nova Religio and The Pomegranate. He was awarded two Fulbright Lectureships in the West Bank (1986-1988), a Fulbright Bicentennial Chair at the University of Helsinki (1998-1999), and a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Award (1995).

He is the author or editor of eleven books on religious violence and millenarian terrorism. His publications include: The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature [with Bron Taylor]; Millennial Violence: Past, Present and Future (2002); The Cultic Milieu (2002); Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right; (2000); Beyond The Mainstream: The Emergence Of Religious Pluralism In Finland, Estonia And Russia (2000); The Emergence of an Euro-American Radical Right [Co-authored with Leonard Weinberg] (1998); and Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements From the Far Right to the Children of Noah (1997). In addition, he has authored numerous articles, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews which have appeared in a multi-disciplinary range of academic journals. His most recent publications are “"Islamophobia in America?: September 11 and Islamophobic Hate Crime,” Terrorism and Political Violence 18:1 (Winter 2006), and “New Religious Movements and Globalization.” In Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft, eds., New and Alternative Religions in the United States, Vol. 1. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006).

Works in progress: “The Fifth Wave: The New Tribalism?,” forthcoming in Terrorism and Political Violence and a monographic work, Terrorist Groups and the New Tribalism: Terrorism’s Fifth Wave, is contracted to Routledge.