Prof. Danny Kaplan
CV
Current and Past Positions
2016 to present Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
and Director of Men Studies at the Gender Studies Program, Bar Ilan University
2015-16 Visiting Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Sociology Department, Yale University
2008 to 2015 Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Gender Studies
Program, Bar Ilan University
2006 Columbia University, Department of Sociology, Visiting Scholar.
2005-2007 Tel Aviv University, Horowitz Research Institute on Society and Economy,
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Host: Haim Hazan.
Summer 2005 University of Leipzig, Simon-Dubnov-Institut for Jewish culture, Visting Scholar
Host: Dan Diner.
2003-2004 Hebrew University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lady Davis
Postdoctoral fellow, Host: Meira Weiss.
Additional affiliations
Faculty fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
Co-director, Bar Ilan Center for Cultural Sociology.
Education
Ph.D. summa cum laude, 2003. Department of Behavioral Science, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
Supplementary studies at San Francisco State University, 2001. Host: Gilbert Herdt.
Dissertation title: The construction of fraternal friendship among contemporary Israeli men
Supervised by Niza Yanay. Committee: Eyal Ben-Ari, Dan Bar-On, Ruthellen Josselson.
MA magna cum laude, 1997. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Thesis title: Combat military service and the shaping of sexual identity
Supervised by Eyal Ben-Ari. Reader: Yoram Bilu.
BA magna cum laude, 1992. Department of Psychology and Amirim Program for Outstanding Students in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Grants and Fellowships
2021-2022 Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, grant for international workshop on Theorizing National Solidarity, 20,200$
2018-2019 Israel Science Foundation grant for international workshop on Involved Fatherhood and the Work-Family Interface, 70,000₪
2015-2018 Israel Science Foundation grant for research project on New Masculinity, Involved
Fatherhood and Work-Family Interface, 306,000₪
2016-2017 Israel Institute, visiting faculty program, annual scholarship, $68,760 (not used due to personal circumstances)
2011 Bar Ilan University Rector Grant for High-Ranked Research Proposal submitted to ISF,
“Israeli Freemasonry and the Engineering of Collective Intimacy.”13,000₪
2009 Grant by Henry J. Leir-Luxembourg Program, Clark University, for Organizing
International Workshop on Friendship and Nationalism, $12,000
2007 The Second Authority for Television and Radio, Hammer Scholarship, 10,000₪.
2005-2007 Horowitz Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, Postdoctoral fellowship, 140,000₪..
2005 Residency Scholarship by the State of Saxony, Germany, €2500.
2003-2004 Korot foundation, Hebrew University, Lady Davis Postdoctoral fellowship, 71,000₪
2004 Dafna Izraeli grant for research on gender in Israeli society, Bar-Ilan University, 500₪
2000 Research Grant for survey on attitudes toward minorities in the military, Palm Center,
UCLA, $1200
Awards
2018 Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology (first place), for article
Social club sociability as a model for national solidarity. Awarded by the Israeli
Sociological Association.
2014 Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology (third place), for article
Institutionalized erasures: How global structures acquire national meanings in Israeli
popular music. Awarded by the Israeli Sociological Association.
2009 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for article Folk Models of Dyadic Male
Bonds in Israeli Culture published in The Sociological Quarterly. Awarded by the
Midwest Sociological Society.
2008 Best article in qualitative methods award for article Public intimacy: Dynamics of
seduction in male social interactions. Awarded by the Association for the Study of the
Multidimensional Person.
1992 Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Prize for Excelling Students.
Research
List of Publications
a. Authored books
Kaplan, Danny (2018). The nation and the promise of friendship: Building solidarity through sociability. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kaplan, Danny (2006) The men we loved: Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. New York: Berghahn Books.
Kaplan, Danny (2003). Brothers and others in arms: The making of love and war in Israeli combat units. New York: Routledge [former Haworth Press].
Kaplan, Danny (1999). David, Jonathan and other soldiers: Identity, masculinity and sexuality in combat units of the IDF. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing (Hebrew).
* Peer reviews of the books have appeared in various journals, among them
Nations and Nationalism, The Review of Politics, American Ethnologist, Israel Studies Forum, Shofar, Men and Masculinities, AJS Review Focaal:European Journal of Anthropology, GLQ, Amiety, Sociologya Israelit, Hevrah Ve-Revacha.
b. Refereed articles
1) Kaplan, Danny (2021). Distinguishing Solidarity from Identity in Studies of Nationhood: An Alternative to the Civic-Ethnic Dichotomy? Nations and Nationalism. )Online before print)
2) Kaplan, Danny (2021). Imagining National Solidarity: Strangers-Turned-Friends-Turned-Brothers. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. )Online before print)
3) Offer, Shira, and Danny Kaplan (2021). The “new father” between ideals and practices: New masculinity ideology, gender role attitudes, and fathers’ involvement in childcare. Social Problems. (Online before print)
4) Kaplan, Danny (2021). Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party. Media, Culture and Society. Online before print.
5) Kaplan, Danny (2020). National solidarity as confidentiality and complicity: Insights from a study of reality show Big Brother Israel. Sociologya Israelit 21(1), 102-123 (Hebrew)
6) Kaplan, Danny, and Efrat Knoll. (2019). A Cultural Model of Parenthood as Engineering: How Caregiving Fathers Construct a Gender-Neutral View of the Parent Role. Journal of Family Issues 40(3), 363 –389.
7) Kaplan, Danny (2018). Social club sociability as a model for national solidarity. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 6(1), 1-36.
8) Rosenmann, Amir, Danny Kaplan, Ruth Gaunt, Mariana Pinho, and Mor Guy (2018). Consumer masculinity ideology: Conceptualization and initial findings on men's emerging body concerns. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 19(2), 257-272.
9) Kaplan, Danny and Yoni Kupper (2017). Toward an Interaction-Centered Approach to Media Events: Mediated Public Intimacy on the Reality TV Show Big Brother. Journal of Communication 67(5), 758-780.
10) Kaplan, Danny, Rosenmann, Amir, and Sara Shuhendler (2017). What about non-traditional masculinities? Toward a quantitative model of therapeutic New Masculinity ideology. Men and Masculinities 20(4), 393–426.
11) Almog, Ran, and Danny Kaplan (2017). The nerd and his discontent: The seduction community and the logic of the game as a geeky solution to the challenges of young masculinity. Men and Masculinities 20(1), 27-48.
[Previous promotion:]
13) Rosenmann, Amir and Danny Kaplan (2014). Masculine body ideologies as a non-gynocentric framework for the psychological study of the male body. Body Image 11(4), 570–580.
14) Kaplan, Danny (2014). Jewish-Arab relations in Israeli Freemasonry: Between civil society and nationalism. Middle East Journal 68(3), 385-401.
15) Kaplan, Danny (2014). Freemasonry as a playground for civic nationalism. Nations and Nationalism, 20(3), 415-435.
16) Kaplan, Danny (2014). The architecture of collective intimacy: Masonic friendships as a model for collective attachments. American Anthropologist 116(1), 81-93.
17) Kaplan, Danny and Amir Rosenmann (2014). Toward an empirical model of male homosocial relatedness: An investigation of friendship in uniform and beyond. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 15(1), 12-21.
18) Danny, Kaplan (2013). National mood stations: The “commemorative mode” of Israeli radio broadcasting during memorial days and times of emergency. Megamot 49(2), 232-256 (Hebrew)
19) Kaplan, Danny (2013). Programming and editing as alternative models of music radio production. International Journal of Communication 7, 759-779.
20) Kaplan, Danny (2012). Institutionalized erasures: How global structures acquire national meanings in Israeli popular music. Poetics 40(3), 217-236.
*This article won the Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology (third place),
awarded by the Israeli Sociological Association.
21) Kaplan, Danny and Orit Hirsch (2012). Marketing nationalism in the absence of state: Radio Haifa during the 2006 Lebanon War. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 41(5), 495– 525.
22) Kaplan, Danny and Amir Rosenmann (2012). Unit Social Cohesion in the Israeli Military as a Case Study of “Don't Ask Don't Tell.” Political Psychology 33(4), 419-436.
23) Danny, Kaplan (2011). Neo-Institutional analysis of the rise of light mizrachi music on Israeli radio, 1995-2010. Sociologya Israelit 13(1), 135-159. (Hebrew)
24) Kupper, Yoni, and Danny Kaplan (2010). When the private meets the public: The politics of recognition in an LGBT organization for education and social change. Sociologya Israelit 12(1), 159-180. (Hebrew)
25) Kaplan, Danny (2009). The songs of the siren: Engineering national time on Israeli radio. Cultural Anthropology 24(2), 313-345.
26) Kaplan, Danny (2008). Commemorating a “suspended death”: Missing soldiers and national solidarity in Israel. American Ethnologist 35(3), 413-427.
27) Kaplan, Danny (2007). What can the concept of friendship contribute to the study of national identity? Nations and Nationalism 13(2), 225-244.
28) Kaplan, Danny (2007). Folk models of dyadic male bonds in Israeli culture. Sociological Quarterly 48 (1), 47-72.
*This article won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award by the Midwest
Sociological Society.
29) Kaplan, Danny, and Niza Yanay (2006). Fraternal friendship and commemorative desire. Social Analysis 50 (1), 127-146.
*This article won the best article in qualitative methods award by the Association for the Study
of the Multidimensional Person.
31) Kaplan, Danny (2004). “The most silent of the world’s passions”: Eroticism after death in the Israeli perception of male friendship. Teoraya VeBikoret (Theory and criticism) 25, 123-142. (Hebrew)
32) Kaplan, Danny (2003). The construction of combat emotions as a central site of "sexonality" Sociologya Israelit (Israeli Sociology) 5 (1), 49-73. (Hebrew)
33) Kaplan, Danny, and Eyal Ben-Ari (2000). Brothers and others in arms: Managing gay identity in combat units of the Israeli army. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29 (4), 396-432.
34) Ben-Cnaan, Nimrod, and Kaplan, Danny (2000). Performing drag in Israel: Jewish resistance on high-heels. Bamah: Drama Quarterly 159-160, 81-97. (Hebrew)
35) Adler, Nurit, Danny Kaplan and Vered Argaman (1998). Using career choice considerations in the counseling process: Examination of the structure of preferences, gender and age differences. Work 11, 331-338.
b. Chapters in collective volumes
36) Kaplan, Danny (2020). Fraternal and civic ties among Jewish and Arab Freemasons in Israel. In Gisela Dachs (eds.) Jüdischer Almanach Freundschaften Feindschaften, pp. 180-194. Berlin: Suhrkamp. (in German)
37) Kaplan, Danny (2014). “Marketing and nationalizing ethnicity: The case of Israeli Mediterranean pop music.” In Dan Caspi and Nelly Elias (eds.), Ethnic minorities and media in the holy land, pp. 99-116. London: Vallentine Mitchell Academic.
38) Kaplan, Danny (2012). Editing the nation: How radio engineers encode Israeli national imaginary. In Daniel Fisher and Lucas Bessire (eds.), Radio fields: Anthropology and wireless sound in the 21st Century, pp. 89-107. New York: New York University Press.
39) Kaplan, Danny (2012). “Cyclic Interruptions:” Popular music on Israeli radio in times of emergency. In Ranen Omer-Sherman and Rachel S. Harris (eds.), Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture, pp. 65-77. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
40) Kaplan, Danny (2011). Chemistry and alchemy: Narrative building-blocks of friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. In Bernadette Descharmes , Eric A. Heuser, Caroline Krüger and Thomas Loy (eds.), Varieties of friendship: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social relationships, pp. 119-141. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress.
41) Kaplan, Danny (2000). The military as a second Bar Mitzvah: Combat service as an initiation-rite to Zionist masculinity. In Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb (eds.), Imagined masculinities: Male identity and culture in the modern Middle East, pp. 127-144. London: El-Saqi Books.
Appeared in Arabic translation of the same book, pages 149-167.
Reprinted in: Estelle, Disch (ed.) (2002). Reconstructing gender: A multicultural Anthology, Third Edition. McGraw Hill.
d. Book reviews
Kaplan, Danny (2006) Review of Higate, Paul R. (ed.), Military Masculinities: Identity and the State. Men and Masculinities, 8 (3): 375-377.
e. Selected non-refereed publications
Kaplan, Danny (2010). The rise of “Mediterranean Pop” and its implications: an organizational analysis of the privatization reforms on Israeli radio. Panim 52-3, 155-164. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, Danny (2010). Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Lessons from Israeli combat units. Foreign Policy. February 3, 2010.
Kaplan, Danny (2009). Introduction to the Hebrew edition. Connell, R.W., Masculinities. Translated by Oded Wolkstein. Haifa: Pardes. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, Danny (2008). National mood stations: Music broadcasting policies on the regional radio. Research report submitted to the Second Authority for Television and Radio. (Hebrew)
Publications
List of Publications
a. Authored books
Kaplan, Danny (2018). The nation and the promise of friendship: Building solidarity through sociability. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kaplan, Danny (2006) The men we loved: Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. New York: Berghahn Books.
Kaplan, Danny (2003). Brothers and others in arms: The making of love and war in Israeli combat units. New York: Routledge [former Haworth Press].
Kaplan, Danny (1999). David, Jonathan and other soldiers: Identity, masculinity and sexuality in combat units of the IDF. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing (Hebrew).
* Peer reviews of the books have appeared in various journals, among them
Nations and Nationalism, The Review of Politics, American Ethnologist, Israel Studies Forum, Shofar, Men and Masculinities, AJS Review Focaal:European Journal of Anthropology, GLQ, Amiety, Sociologya Israelit, Hevrah Ve-Revacha.
b. Refereed articles
1) Kaplan, Danny (2021). Distinguishing Solidarity from Identity in Studies of Nationhood: An Alternative to the Civic-Ethnic Dichotomy? Nations and Nationalism. )Online before print)
2) Kaplan, Danny (2021). Imagining National Solidarity: Strangers-Turned-Friends-Turned-Brothers. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. )Online before print)
3) Offer, Shira, and Danny Kaplan (2021). The “new father” between ideals and practices: New masculinity ideology, gender role attitudes, and fathers’ involvement in childcare. Social Problems. (Online before print)
4) Kaplan, Danny (2021). Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party. Media, Culture and Society. Online before print.
5) Kaplan, Danny (2020). National solidarity as confidentiality and complicity: Insights from a study of reality show Big Brother Israel. Sociologya Israelit 21(1), 102-123 (Hebrew)
6) Kaplan, Danny, and Efrat Knoll. (2019). A Cultural Model of Parenthood as Engineering: How Caregiving Fathers Construct a Gender-Neutral View of the Parent Role. Journal of Family Issues 40(3), 363 –389.
7) Kaplan, Danny (2018). Social club sociability as a model for national solidarity. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 6(1), 1-36.
8) Rosenmann, Amir, Danny Kaplan, Ruth Gaunt, Mariana Pinho, and Mor Guy (2018). Consumer masculinity ideology: Conceptualization and initial findings on men's emerging body concerns. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 19(2), 257-272.
9) Kaplan, Danny and Yoni Kupper (2017). Toward an Interaction-Centered Approach to Media Events: Mediated Public Intimacy on the Reality TV Show Big Brother. Journal of Communication 67(5), 758-780.
10) Kaplan, Danny, Rosenmann, Amir, and Sara Shuhendler (2017). What about non-traditional masculinities? Toward a quantitative model of therapeutic New Masculinity ideology. Men and Masculinities 20(4), 393–426.
11) Almog, Ran, and Danny Kaplan (2017). The nerd and his discontent: The seduction community and the logic of the game as a geeky solution to the challenges of young masculinity. Men and Masculinities 20(1), 27-48.
[Previous promotion:]
13) Rosenmann, Amir and Danny Kaplan (2014). Masculine body ideologies as a non-gynocentric framework for the psychological study of the male body. Body Image 11(4), 570–580.
14) Kaplan, Danny (2014). Jewish-Arab relations in Israeli Freemasonry: Between civil society and nationalism. Middle East Journal 68(3), 385-401.
15) Kaplan, Danny (2014). Freemasonry as a playground for civic nationalism. Nations and Nationalism, 20(3), 415-435.
16) Kaplan, Danny (2014). The architecture of collective intimacy: Masonic friendships as a model for collective attachments. American Anthropologist 116(1), 81-93.
17) Kaplan, Danny and Amir Rosenmann (2014). Toward an empirical model of male homosocial relatedness: An investigation of friendship in uniform and beyond. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 15(1), 12-21.
18) Danny, Kaplan (2013). National mood stations: The “commemorative mode” of Israeli radio broadcasting during memorial days and times of emergency. Megamot 49(2), 232-256 (Hebrew)
19) Kaplan, Danny (2013). Programming and editing as alternative models of music radio production. International Journal of Communication 7, 759-779.
20) Kaplan, Danny (2012). Institutionalized erasures: How global structures acquire national meanings in Israeli popular music. Poetics 40(3), 217-236.
*This article won the Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology (third place),
awarded by the Israeli Sociological Association.
21) Kaplan, Danny and Orit Hirsch (2012). Marketing nationalism in the absence of state: Radio Haifa during the 2006 Lebanon War. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 41(5), 495– 525.
22) Kaplan, Danny and Amir Rosenmann (2012). Unit Social Cohesion in the Israeli Military as a Case Study of “Don't Ask Don't Tell.” Political Psychology 33(4), 419-436.
23) Danny, Kaplan (2011). Neo-Institutional analysis of the rise of light mizrachi music on Israeli radio, 1995-2010. Sociologya Israelit 13(1), 135-159. (Hebrew)
24) Kupper, Yoni, and Danny Kaplan (2010). When the private meets the public: The politics of recognition in an LGBT organization for education and social change. Sociologya Israelit 12(1), 159-180. (Hebrew)
25) Kaplan, Danny (2009). The songs of the siren: Engineering national time on Israeli radio. Cultural Anthropology 24(2), 313-345.
26) Kaplan, Danny (2008). Commemorating a “suspended death”: Missing soldiers and national solidarity in Israel. American Ethnologist 35(3), 413-427.
27) Kaplan, Danny (2007). What can the concept of friendship contribute to the study of national identity? Nations and Nationalism 13(2), 225-244.
28) Kaplan, Danny (2007). Folk models of dyadic male bonds in Israeli culture. Sociological Quarterly 48 (1), 47-72.
*This article won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award by the Midwest
Sociological Society.
29) Kaplan, Danny, and Niza Yanay (2006). Fraternal friendship and commemorative desire. Social Analysis 50 (1), 127-146.
*This article won the best article in qualitative methods award by the Association for the Study
of the Multidimensional Person.
31) Kaplan, Danny (2004). “The most silent of the world’s passions”: Eroticism after death in the Israeli perception of male friendship. Teoraya VeBikoret (Theory and criticism) 25, 123-142. (Hebrew)
32) Kaplan, Danny (2003). The construction of combat emotions as a central site of "sexonality" Sociologya Israelit (Israeli Sociology) 5 (1), 49-73. (Hebrew)
33) Kaplan, Danny, and Eyal Ben-Ari (2000). Brothers and others in arms: Managing gay identity in combat units of the Israeli army. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29 (4), 396-432.
34) Ben-Cnaan, Nimrod, and Kaplan, Danny (2000). Performing drag in Israel: Jewish resistance on high-heels. Bamah: Drama Quarterly 159-160, 81-97. (Hebrew)
35) Adler, Nurit, Danny Kaplan and Vered Argaman (1998). Using career choice considerations in the counseling process: Examination of the structure of preferences, gender and age differences. Work 11, 331-338.
b. Chapters in collective volumes
36) Kaplan, Danny (2020). Fraternal and civic ties among Jewish and Arab Freemasons in Israel. In Gisela Dachs (eds.) Jüdischer Almanach Freundschaften Feindschaften, pp. 180-194. Berlin: Suhrkamp. (in German)
37) Kaplan, Danny (2014). “Marketing and nationalizing ethnicity: The case of Israeli Mediterranean pop music.” In Dan Caspi and Nelly Elias (eds.), Ethnic minorities and media in the holy land, pp. 99-116. London: Vallentine Mitchell Academic.
38) Kaplan, Danny (2012). Editing the nation: How radio engineers encode Israeli national imaginary. In Daniel Fisher and Lucas Bessire (eds.), Radio fields: Anthropology and wireless sound in the 21st Century, pp. 89-107. New York: New York University Press.
39) Kaplan, Danny (2012). “Cyclic Interruptions:” Popular music on Israeli radio in times of emergency. In Ranen Omer-Sherman and Rachel S. Harris (eds.), Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture, pp. 65-77. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
40) Kaplan, Danny (2011). Chemistry and alchemy: Narrative building-blocks of friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. In Bernadette Descharmes , Eric A. Heuser, Caroline Krüger and Thomas Loy (eds.), Varieties of friendship: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social relationships, pp. 119-141. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress.
41) Kaplan, Danny (2000). The military as a second Bar Mitzvah: Combat service as an initiation-rite to Zionist masculinity. In Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb (eds.), Imagined masculinities: Male identity and culture in the modern Middle East, pp. 127-144. London: El-Saqi Books.
Appeared in Arabic translation of the same book, pages 149-167.
Reprinted in: Estelle, Disch (ed.) (2002). Reconstructing gender: A multicultural Anthology, Third Edition. McGraw Hill.
d. Book reviews
Kaplan, Danny (2006) Review of Higate, Paul R. (ed.), Military Masculinities: Identity and the State. Men and Masculinities, 8 (3): 375-377.
e. Selected non-refereed publications
Kaplan, Danny (2010). The rise of “Mediterranean Pop” and its implications: an organizational analysis of the privatization reforms on Israeli radio. Panim 52-3, 155-164. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, Danny (2010). Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Lessons from Israeli combat units. Foreign Policy. February 3, 2010.
Kaplan, Danny (2009). Introduction to the Hebrew edition. Connell, R.W., Masculinities. Translated by Oded Wolkstein. Haifa: Pardes. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, Danny (2008). National mood stations: Music broadcasting policies on the regional radio. Research report submitted to the Second Authority for Television and Radio. (Hebrew)
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