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Martha Kaplan is a Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College since 1990. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1988), an MA from the same institution (1981), and a BA from Bryn Mawr College (1979). Her research focuses on political anthropology, colonial and postcolonial societies, and the anthropology of water, nation, and environmental imagination. She has conducted fieldwork in Fiji, India, the United States, and Singapore.
Her academic interests include ritual studies, cosmology, and the anthropology of religion, alongside historical anthropology and Pacific Studies. She teaches courses such as 'Introduction to Anthropology' and 'Imagining Asia and the Island Pacific.' Currently, she is working on a book titled Water Cultures: Fiji, New York, Singapore. Kaplan collaborates with her husband, John D. Kelly, an anthropologist, and contributes to interdisciplinary programs in Asian Studies and International Studies at Vassar.
