Temma Kaplan



Professor of History (Ph.D., Harvard, 1969) and Director of Women's Studies
E-Mail
temma.kaplan@sunysb.edu
Office
SBS S-332
Phone
631-632-7378
Fax
631-632-7367
Research Interests
In addition to work on comparative social movements, popular, political culture, and urban history, I have written widely about female and class consciousness and their effect on political organizing in particular historical contexts. As a kind of historical anthropologist, I'm interested in shaming rituals, visual representation, and how ordinary people express their political aspirations. I am trying to finish a book called Making Spectacles of Themselves, which is concerned with the relationship of historical memory and to the pursuit of justice in certain women's mobilizations during the so-called"democratic transitions" in Spain, Chile, Argentina, and South Africa from the seventies through the nineties.
Scholarly Works
Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements (New York: Routledge, 1997).

Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).