Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan is an American academic who has authored and edited a number of books on religious violence

Religious violence

Religious violence is a term that covers all phenomena where religion, in any of its forms, is either the subject or object of violent behaviour. Religious violence is, specifically, violence that is motivated by or in reaction to religious precepts, texts or doctrines...

, terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...

 and the far right

Far right

Far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Far-right politics may involve anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are...

. 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

Nova Religio

Nova Religio is a peer-reviewed religious studies journal that focuses on New Religious Movements. The journal is published by University of California Press, in Berkeley, California...

and The Pomegranate.

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

Ilisagvik College

Iḷisaġvik College is a public community college located in Barrow, Alaska, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. The College is the only tribally controlled college in Alaska and is the northernmost accredited community college in the United States. Accredited in 2003 by the Northwest Commission on...

 in Barrow

Barrow, Alaska

Barrow is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is one of the northernmost cities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point. Barrow's population was 4,212 at the...

, Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation was established by Harry Guggenheim to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance.The foundation writes: "He was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis would in the end accomplish more...

 Research Grant for a project on "The Emergence of a Violent Euro-American Radical Right" with Leonard Weinberg

Leonard Weinberg

Leonard Weinberg was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 30, 1889. He was the founder of the large law firm in Downtown Baltimore, Weinberg and Green...

. Kaplan also occupied the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available...

 in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 from 1998–1999.

Publications

• Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture
  Nation and Race
  Nation and Race: The Developing Euro-American Racist Subculture is a book edited by Jeffrey Kaplan and Tore Bjørgo. It collects the papers of an international conference held in New Orleans, from December 8, 1995 to December 11, 1995....
  
  (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
  Encyclopedia of White Power
  Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right is a reference book edited by Jeffrey Kaplan. It focuses on the White Power movement, mainly U.S...
  
  (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
  Bron Taylor
  Bron Raymond Taylor is an American scholar and conservationist. He is Professor of Religion and Nature at the University of Florida and has also been an Affiliated Scholar with the Center for Environment and Development at the University of Oslo. Taylor works principally in the areas of religion...
  
  ) (2005)