Producción científica por año
Producción científica por año
Dr. Kaplan holds a full-time permanent position as a faculty administrator in the Hicks Honors College. There she has taught classes that focused on food and culture, cultural and national identity, modern Greek culture, folklore and literature, and an introduction to folklore. Her Ph.D. is in Folklore and Folklife, and her dissertation was on the interplay between Greek conceptions of their national identity and the influence of foreign travelers on that conception using as its subject travel accounts written by European visitors to the Corinthia in Greece in the period between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Kaplan utilizes approaches and methods drawn from the fields of anthropology, literature, and history. Her research interests are drawn from a range of different areas-- Greek national identity, pedagogy, food culture, and honors program community-building-- and the common thread among them all is an longstanding interest in community and identity. Her original research focus centered around community development of national identity a concern that has led her over the last 10 years to practice and teach about ethnic identity in the US through immigrant communities, often using the lens of food as a cultural and biological resource. In fact, food culture is woven through many of her teaching and research interests from the development of national identity in Greece, a classroom learning community, to the community she is trying to build in the Honors Program. Her most recent project leverages what she knows about food and the culture in elementary school communities to create a more positive food culture in each school. Her research is informed by a deep interest in the ways that cultures and community identities are built and interact with each other. These themes are apparent in her teaching as well. She uses ethnographic methods and qualitative research to analyze, strengthen, and make communities more positive in research, teaching, and administration as community-building.
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