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Caren Kaplan

Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Chairperson, Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Affiliated Faculty, Science and Technology Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz

Email: cjkaplan@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-2047
Office: 2222 Hart Hall

Caren Kaplan is Chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group, Professor in Women and Gender Studies, and affiliated faculty in Science and Technology Studies. She received her PhD in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz in 1987 and worked at Georgetown University and UC Berkeley before joining the faculty at UC Davis in 2004. She has published work on colonial and post-colonial travel and theories of displacement in the modern world as well as an introductory textbook on feminist transnational cultural studies. Her current research focuses on the aerial perspectives and militarized visual culture. Thanks to a Vector's residential fellowship at USC and an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship (2006-07), her most recent scholarship is collaboratively realized in digital multi-media as well as co-authored and single-authored conventional texts.

For more information about Prof. Kaplan, visit her website at www.carenkaplan.com.