Professor Eran Kaplan was appointed to the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair of Israel Studies at San Francisco State University in August 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative History from Brandeis University in 2001. In 2001-02, he was the Ray D. Wolfe Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. From 2002 to 2008, he taught in the Department of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati, and from 2008 to 2011 he was Lecturer in Israel Studies at Princeton University. His newly released book (with Derek Penslar) is From Settlements to Statehood: The Origins of Israel, 1882-1948: A Documentary History, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Published in 2005 is the book, The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy. Kaplan is finishing a manuscript that is provisionally entitled: Beyond Post Zionism. He has contributed articles to such journals as Jewish Social Studies, The Journal of Israeli History, The Journal of Israeli Studies, and Alpayim, as well as the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on topics that include Zionist and Israeli history, Israeli cinema and art, modern Hebrew literature, Jewish orientalism, and more.