Occupation: Professor
University: UC Davis
Organizations: American Studies Association
Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis. Her research draws on cultural geography, landscape art, and military history to explore the ways in which undeclared as well as declared wars produce views of terrain. Selected publications include Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Duke 2018); Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (co-edited with Lisa Parks, Duke 2017); Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (with Inderpal Grewal, McGraw Hill 2001; 2005); Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke 1996) Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (with Inderpal Grewal, Minnesota 1994) as well as two digital multi-media scholarly works, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets.