I was born in 1955 in Ithaca, NY. My father, Arthur Kaplan, was completing his PhD in Psychology at Cornell University. My mother, Doris Flax Kaplan, was a home economist and nutritionist. After a short stint in St. Louis, Missouri, we moved to Bangor, Maine, where my father ran the first community mental health services and then a few miles down the road to Orono, Maine, when my father took a position as a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Maine (his alma mater). My mother got an MA in library science and worked at the university library in the reference department. I lived with my parents and younger brother in Orono, on the ancestral land of the Penobscot Wabanaki people, until I left for college in Massachusetts.

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Caren Kaplan papers Kaplan, Caren Feminist Theory Archive. Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. MS.2022.007 6 linear feet (5 record center cartons and 2 file boxes) 1968–2022 English Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies at University of California, Davis. She has been a leading scholar of Transnational feminism, Postcolonial theory, and Militarization Studies. This collection includes correspondence related to Kaplan's academics, professional career, writings, and talks; papers from her undergraduate and graduate education; conference materials; syllabi and lecture notes; and draft writings. Materials date from 1968 – 2022. Kaplan (Caren) papers Biographical/Historical Note

Caren Kaplan provided the following first-person biographical note that is included here in italics. The original statement is located in the "Annotated index to contents" found in box 1 folder 1 of the collection.

I was born in 1955 in Ithaca, NY. My father, Arthur Kaplan, was completing his PhD in Psychology at Cornell University. My mother, Doris Flax Kaplan, was a home economist and nutritionist. After a short stint in St. Louis, Missouri, we moved to Bangor, Maine, where my father ran the first community mental health services and then a few miles down the road to Orono, Maine, when my father took a position as a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Maine (his alma mater). My mother got an MA in library science and worked at the university library in the reference department. I lived with my parents and younger brother in Orono, on the ancestral land of the Penobscot Wabanaki people, until I left for college in Massachusetts.

We were among the few Jewish families in our town and experienced casual as well as organized anti-Semitism. My parents were progressive liberals and belonged to the local chapter of the NAACP in the 1960s. My mother took us to anti-war rallies on campus. Family friends included many international faculty, and we regularly visited family in New York. When I was in high school I was very serious about studying dance and art. Feminism was in the air. I attended a talk by Robin Morgan on the UM campus when she was on the circuit after the publication of Sisterhood is Powerful and founded a feminist "support group" in my high school. I subscribed to Ms. magazine and bought the first newsprint edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves (the subject of avid discussion in our high school support group). I was a classic "second wave" feminist until I reached college and graduate school and began to absorb critiques of the white and US exceptionalism of some parts of that movement. Summer jobs as a "downstairs" maid on coastal estates and as a waitress informed my class analysis through direct experience. I was fortunate to participate in the American Field Service (AFS) summer program in between junior and senior year in high school and I was assigned to live with a family in Istanbul, Turkey. This was a transformative experience—the first time I had traveled outside of the United States and the first time I had lived in a city. My parents were the children of immigrants from eastern Europe and the first members of their families to attend university and they instilled in me a deep respect for learning and for public education. Although I attended a private college myself (probably thanks to my mother's advocacy), public education could have been said to be our family's true "religion" and my father was markedly disappointed when I accepted my first job at Georgetown University. I had let him down. Fortunately, I redeemed myself when I moved to the University of California system.

After completing her PhD in the History of Consciousness program at University of California, Santa Cruz, Caren Kaplan began her career in the English Department at Georgetown University. She continued in the Women's Studies Department at University of California, Berkeley before moving to University of California, Davis in 2004. She retired from UC Davis in 2019 as Professor of American Studies and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies.

Kaplan has been a leading scholar of Transnational feminism, Postcolonial theory, and Militarization Studies. She is the author and editor of six books and numerous highly influential essays and articles. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Arabic. In addition to American Studies, Kaplan has been affiliated with Women and Gender Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Cinema and Technocultural Studies, the DE's in Feminist Theory & Research, Critical Theory, Performance Studies, and Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition. She also served for two terms as Chair of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group.

Personal and Biographical Series 1 1980 - 2022 "Annotated index to contents" 2022 1 1 Scope and Contents

This document was written by Kaplan, is arranged chronologically, and corresponds to Kaplan's original folder titles. The processor kept all original folders with their original contents so that researchers can easily locate annotations. Annotations include personal reflections, event details, and contextual information related to Kaplan's personal life and professional career. Particularly significant annotations have been noted in the inventory of this finding aid.

Blog posts: "Mind's Eye" re: "aerial imagery and assassination of Osama Bin Laden" 2011 1 2 "Collages" circa 1980-1990 1 3 Correspondence and handwritten notes re: podcast interview 2020 1 4 CVs: handwritten and typed drafts circa 1985 1 5 "Job search materials;" includes letters of recommendation, CVs, and writing samples 1985 - 1986 1 6 Letters of recommendation for Kaplan 1985 1 7 Memorial materials for Lester Mazor; includes typed draft comments by Kaplan and articles re: sexual harassment 2011 - 2022 1 8 Scope and Contents

See commentary on page 32 of "Annotated index to contents," box 1 folder 1

Party invitation to celebrate book publications by Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal 1996 1 9 Education Files Series 2 1968 - 1989 Hampshire College: commencement program May 28, 1977 1 10 Hampshire College: concentration statement and evaluations of Kaplan's work 1976 1 11 Hampshire College: correspondence re: "Committee to Re-Open the Rosenberg Case" 1974 1 12 Hampshire College: course materials: various courses: evaluations of Kaplan's work, circa 1976 circa 1976 1 13 Hampshire College: course materials: various courses: evaluations of Kaplan's work, 1977 1977 1 14 Hampshire College: course materials: various courses; includes annotated typed paper drafts and handwritten notes circa 1977 1 15 Hampshire College: course materials: various courses; includes syllabi and course evaluations by Kaplan 1974 - 1975 1 16 Hampshire College: course materials: Women into Literature and Criticism; includes syllabus and bibliography 1976 1 17 Hampshire College: event flyer 1987 1 18 Hampshire College: meeting notes [?] re: "a critique of Division III and some ideas for change by a group of Division III students" May 1976 1 19 Hampshire College: student paper: "The Circle Without Boundaries: Visions of the Mother/Daughter Relationship:" typed final draft 1977 1 20 Hampshire College: student paper: "Fantasy, Feminism, and the Fairy Tale:" typed draft and exam report 1976 - 1977 1 21 Hampshire College: student paper: "Klinefelter's Syndrome and Maternal Age:" typed draft and exam report 1975 1 22 Hampshire College: student paper: "Law and Liberty in the Democratic and Authoritarian State:" annotated typed draft 1976 1 23 Hampshire College: student paper: "Law and Politics:" typed draft circa 1974-1975 1 24 Hampshire College: student paper: "Mid-term" and "Final exam" papers for Political Science 128: typed drafts 1975 1 25 Hampshire College: student paper: "Nyberg v. City of Virginia:" annotated typed draft 1974 1 26 Hampshire College: student paper: "Order, Law, and Freedom: the Liberal Tradition:" annotated typed draft 1976 1 27 Hampshire College: student paper: "The Political Philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel:" typed draft with annotations by Lester Mazor 1976 1 28 Hampshire College: student paper: "The Relationship of Politics to the Judicial System:" typed draft with annotations by Lester Mazor 1974 1 29 Hampshire College: student paper: "Statutory Interpretation: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972:" typed draft 1974 1 30 Hampshire College: student paper: "Two Views on Language and Myth: Ernst Cassirer and Roland Barthes:" typed draft and exam report 1976 1 31 Hampshire College: transcript and portfolio circa 1979 1 32 Unidentified primary school: student paper: "The Chicago Police and the Democratic Convention:" handwritten draft and clippings circa 1968-1969 1 33 University of California, Santa Cruz: admissions materials; includes correspondence and statement of purpose 1979 1 34 University of California, Santa Cruz: applications for research support 1981 - 1982 1 35 University of California, Santa Cruz: bibliography: "Literature by Black Women: A List of Books" by Becky Birtha 1981 1 36 University of California, Santa Cruz: correspondence from Hayden White to entering students 1979 1 37 University of California, Santa Cruz: correspondence re: conference participation 1985 1 38 University of California, Santa Cruz: correspondence re: review of the Feminist Studies Research Group 1989 1 39 University of California, Santa Cruz: correspondence re: various topics including academic achievements and appointments 1980 - 1987 1 40 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: Feminist Theory: handwritten notes and typed self evaluation 1980 1 41 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: Feminist Theory; includes handwritten notes 1982 1 42 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: Feminist Theory; includes handwritten notes and assignment prompts circa 1981 1 43 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: Feminist Theory; includes typed notes 1980 1 44 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: Problems in the History of the Human Sciences: handwritten notes 1981 1 45 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: The Sixties from Sartic to Althusser: handwritten notes 1981 1 46 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: Theory of the Text: handwritten notes 1980 1 47 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: various courses: syllabi, 1979-1980 1979 - 1980 1 48 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: various courses: syllabi, 1981-1982 1981 - 1982 1 49 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: various courses: syllabi, 1984-1986 1984 - 1986 1 50 University of California, Santa Cruz: course materials: Versions of the Self: syllabus and handwritten notes 1985 1 51 University of California, Santa Cruz: dissertation manuscript: "The Poetics of Displacement: Exile, Immigration, and Travel in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing" (1 of 2) December 1987 1 52 University of California, Santa Cruz: dissertation manuscript: "The Poetics of Displacement: Exile, Immigration, and Travel in Contemporary Autobiographical Writing" (2 of 2) December 1987 1 53 University of California, Santa Cruz: dissertation narrative evaluation May 1982 1 54 University of California, Santa Cruz: "dissertation notes" circa 1987 1 55 University of California, Santa Cruz: dissertation prospectus: "Reading and Writing Difference: Sexual Difference in Feminist Thought:" annotated typed drafts May 1982 1 56 University of California, Santa Cruz: dissertation prospectus: "Reading and Writing Difference: Sexual Difference in Feminist Thought;" includes proposal and typed draft January 1982 1 57 University of California, Santa Cruz: dissertation prospectus: "Reading and Writing Difference: Sexual Difference in Feminist Thought;" typed draft annotated by Donna Haraway May 1982 1 58 University of California, Santa Cruz: event flyers for general events 1979 - 1986 1 59 University of California, Santa Cruz: event flyers for "History of Consciousness: Work in Progress" 1979 - 1986 1 60 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: "applications for dissertation support" 1983 2 1 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: correspondence 1983 - 1984 2 2 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: course evaluations 1983 2 3 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: event flyers and booklets 1982 - 1984 2 4 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: handwritten notes re: Blade Runner and Querrelle circa 1983-1984 2 5 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: handwritten notes re: "Freud" 1982 - 1983 2 6 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: handwritten notes re: "pre-Socrates" 1983 2 7 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: handwritten notes and syllabus re: "Metaphor and Catharsis" 1983 2 8 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: handwritten and typed notes re: "Gilda" circa 1983-1984 2 9 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: letter to the editor 1983 2 10 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: student paper: "In the Transe of the Trans: Writing as Transition in the Baobab Tree;" includes typed draft and handwritten notes 1984 2 11 University of California, Santa Cruz: Education Abroad Program: transcript 1982 - 1984 2 12 University of California, Santa Cruz: flyers and organizing materials re: Graduate Feminist Caucus 1981 - 1986 2 13 University of California, Santa Cruz: Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse; includes correspondence, handwritten notes, and bound copies of "Inscriptions" 1985 - 1986 2 14 University of California, Santa Cruz: Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse; includes description, correspondence, and flyers 1984 - 1986 2 15 University of California, Santa Cruz: handwritten notes re: "Islam in World History" lecture by Norman O'Brown 1980 2 16 University of California, Santa Cruz: handwritten notes re: Nancy Chodorow's scholarship n.d. 2 17 University of California, Santa Cruz: "narrative evaluations" 1979 - 1986 2 18 University of California, Santa Cruz: notification of advancement to candidacy June 1982 2 19 University of California, Santa Cruz: print material; includes pamphlets and booklets re: History of Consciousness 1979 - 1986 2 20 University of California, Santa Cruz: student paper: "Discourse, ideology, and Myth: The Politics of Transliteration:" typed draft 1980 2 21 University of California, Santa Cruz: student paper: "Myth and Reason in Plato's Political Theory: typed draft annotated by Peter Euben 1979 2 22 University of California, Santa Cruz: student paper: "Towards a Theory of Feminist History:" typed draft 1980 2 23 University of California, Santa Cruz: student paper: untitled re: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: handwritten notes and typed draft annotated by Gayatri Spivak 1981 2 24 University of California, Santa Cruz: student paper: "untitled work in progress:" typed draft and handwritten notes 1981 2 25 University of California, Santa Cruz: student papers: various titles: typed drafts annotated by Hayden White and James Clifford 1979 2 26 University of California, Santa Cruz: student papers: various titles re: "feminism, graduate school, and politics:" typed drafts 1982 2 27 University of California, Santa Cruz: student paper: "'A Woman's Book:' Of Women Born and the Social Organization of Sexual Domination:" typed draft and comments 1981 2 28 University of California, Santa Cruz: student paper: "Women's Studies: History, Status, Issues, and Goals;" includes typed draft and handwritten notes 1985 2 29 University of California, Santa Cruz: transcripts 1979 - 1987 2 30 Administrative and Career Development Series 3 1985 - 2019 Georgetown University: application for Assistant Professor; includes correspondence and handwritten notes 1985 2 31 Georgetown University: correspondence re: invitation to lead a seminar 1989 2 32 Georgetown University: correspondence re: talk at Hampshire College 1989 2 33 Georgetown University: correspondence re: tenure and resignation 1994 2 34 Georgetown University: department evaluation of Kaplan 1988 2 35 Georgetown University: invitation and handwritten notes re: Washington Area Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourses circa 1987-1988 2 36 Georgetown University: teaching evaluations 1986 - 1991 2 37 State University of New York, Stony Brook: postdoc proposal materials 1989 2 38 University of California, Berkeley: correspondence re: merit review 1998 2 39 University of California, Berkeley: correspondence re: retention 1994 2 40 University of California, Berkeley: correspondence and handwritten notes re: appointment to Department Chair 2000 - 2001 2 41 University of California, Berkeley: job offer letter 1992 2 42 University of California, Berkeley: promotion to Associate Professor materials 2001 2 43 University of California, Berkeley: sabbatical report 2003 2 44 University of California, Berkeley: student testimonials of Kaplan as mentor 2002 2 45 University of California, Berkeley: tenure materials 1994 2 46 University of California, Berkeley: Women's Studies course offerings flyer Spring 1993 2 47 University of California, Berkeley: Women's Studies graduation remarks by Kaplan, 1993 1993 2 48 University of California, Berkeley: Women's Studies graduation remarks by Kaplan, 1995 1995 2 49 University of California, Berkeley: Women's Studies graduation remarks by Kaplan, 1999 1999 2 50 University of California, Berkeley: Women's Studies graduation remarks by Kaplan, 2001 2001 2 51 University of California, Davis: application for UC Davis Humanities Institute research cluster funding; includes correspondence and handwritten notes 2018 - 2019 2 52 University of California, Davis: application and award letter re: Faculty Research Seminar on Surveillance and Social Networks 2011 - 2012 2 53 University of California, Davis: application and related correspondence re: American Council of Learned Societies Innovation Fellowship 2005 - 2006 2 54 University of California, Davis: application and related correspondence re: Cultural Studies Director at UC Davis 2003 2 55 University of California, Davis: application and related correspondence re: University of California Humanities Research Institute 2011 - 2012 2 56 University of California, Davis: correspondence re: Culture and Theory graduate program proposal for University of California, Irvine February 6, 2005 2 57 University of California, Davis: correspondence re: five-year merit 2014 2 58 University of California, Davis: memorandum of understanding re: transfer of faculty appointment from Women and Gender Studies to American Studies 2011 2 59 University of California, Davis: correspondence re: Outstanding Mentor Award from the Consortium for Women and Research April 2010 2 60 University of California, Davis: correspondence re: reviewing Women and Gender Studies program at Harvard University February 6, 2005 2 61 University of California, Davis: correspondence re: University of California President's Faculty Research Fellowship in the Humanities 2010 2 62 University of California, Davis: memorial materials and related correspondence re: Ruth Frankenberg; includes memorial comments by Kaplan 2019 2 63 University of California, Davis: merit promotion materials 2009 2 64 University of California, Davis: program review of the Cultural Studies Graduate Group 2004 2 65 University of California, Davis: project proposal re: Vectors Summer Fellowship Program 2004 2 66 University of California, Davis: research project materials re: "Everyday Militarisms: Lethal Entanglements Collaboration between UC Davis and University of Sydney;" includes correspondence and handwritten notes 2018 - 2019 2 67 Scope and Contents

See commentary on page 39 of "Annotated index to contents," box 1 folder 1

University of California, Davis: review materials for Gender Studies at UCLA 2015 - 2016 2 68 University of California, Davis: typed notes re: "The Critical Militarization, Policing, and Security Studies Research Group" circa 2017 2 69 Conferences Series 4 1979 - 2021 Aerial Dispositions: The Format of Evidence; includes correspondence, poster, and various talk drafts 2015 - 2016 2 70 American Circuits, American Secrets; includes correspondence and talk draft by Kaplan, "Deception in Warfare: Interpretation and Stealth in Militarized Aeromobility" 2014 2 71 American Studies Association; includes correspondence and Kaplan's comments for "Rights, Rites, and Contemporary Cultural Politics" 1991 3 1 Atmospheric Politics: Asymmetrical Warfare from Above; includes correspondence and handwritten notes re: panel planning 2016 - 2017 3 2 Autobiography and Biography: Gender Text and Context; includes correspondence and schedule 1986 3 3 Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues: program and typed closing remarks by Kaplan April 1993 3 4 Beyond the Book: Humanities Scholarship in the Digital Age; includes program and opening remarks by Kaplan February 2008 3 5 The Challenge of Third World Culture; includes booklet and handwritten notes September 1986 3 6 Challenges to Conventional Knowledge: correspondence November 1, 2015 3 7 Conference Against the Use of Drones in Warfare: program and talk draft by Kaplan, "Drones, Cyborgs, and the Domestic Threshold of War" October 2017 3 8 The Cyborg Manifesto in honor of Donna Haraway; includes program, correspondence, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Lively Machines: Un/manned Aerial Vehicles" 2017 3 9 Depths of Violence, Surfaces of Empire: correspondence 2020 3 10 Different Readings: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Women, Texts, and Interpretation: call for papers and Kaplan's proposal 1988 3 11 Digital Legacies of the War on Terror: poster, correspondence, and typed notes 2021 3 12 Digital Scholarship: From Interactive to immersive Modalities Workshop: typed talking points February 8, 2011 3 13 Drones at Home; includes program, correspondence, handwritten notes, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Air Power at 'Home:' Continuities of Domestic Aerial Policing" 2012 3 14 Enbedded: Archaeologists and Anthropologists in Modern Landscapes of Conflict; includes program, correspondence, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Orienting Distance: Aerial Surveys in the Service of Modern Warfare" 2013 - 2014 3 15 Europe and its Others; includes program, schedule, and flyer July 13-15, 1984 3 16 Eyes in the Skies: Drones and the Politics of Distance Warfare; includes program and draft introductory remarks 2016 3 17 Feminist Re-Articulations of South Asia: program May 2005 3 18 Feminist Theory and Action: A North West Conference: review in "A Report from the Center for the Sociological Study of Women" 1979 3 19 From Agriculture to Activism: Thinking Digital Media Across Fields; includes program, correspondence, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Lively Machines: Un/manned Aerial Vehicles" 2017 3 20 Geography and Humanities Symposium: schedule and talk draft by Kaplan, "Aftermath" June 2007 3 21 The Legacy of Colonialism in American Popular Culture; includes correspondence, paper abstract, and panel proposal 1987 - 1988 3 22 Literature and Culture from 1492-1992; includes program, handwritten notes, and talk draft by Kaplan, "The Politics of Location as Transnational Feminist Critical Practice" 1992 3 23 Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices; includes program, correspondence, and untitled keynote draft by Kaplan 2013 - 2014 3 24 Militarism in Everyday Life: New Zones of Empire: conference proposal by Kaplan 2008 3 25 Modern Language Association; includes correspondence and talk drafts by Kaplan, " The Politics of Signification in the Poetics of Displacement" and "The Construction of History in the Fiction of Immigration" 1988 3 26 Narrative: An international Conference; includes program, handwritten notes, and talk draft by Kaplan, "The Politics of Location as Transnational Feminist Critical Practice" 1992 3 27 The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse; includes correspondence, program, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Deterritorializations: The Rewriting of Home and Exile in Western Feminist Minority Discourse" 1986 3 28 Off the Grid: Geomedia online conference; includes agenda, correspondence, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Staying with the Grid: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge and its Technics" 2021 3 29 Popular Culture Association; includes correspondence and partial talk draft 1988 3 30 Power and Authority in the Era of Trump: A Roundtable on the New American Empire; includes correspondence and typed notes and comments 2017 3 31 Race/Religion/War Symposium: poster, schedule, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Desert Wars: Unfolding Orientalism as the Limit of 'Genuine Knowledge'" October 2012 3 32 The Scholar and the Feminist VI: The Future of Difference: program April 21, 1979 3 33 The Scholar and the Feminist VII: Class, Race, and Sex: Exploring Contradictions, Affirming Connections: program April 12, 1980 3 34 The Second Sex Thirty Years Later: A Commemorative Conference on Feminist Theory: papers by others September 27-29, 1979 3 35 Security Populisms and Insecure Transmissions: Global Security Hub Workshop: schedule, correspondence, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Aerial Dispositions: The Format of Evidence" February 2016 3 36 Sensing the Long War: Sites, Signals, and Sounds: flyer 2013 3 37 Seuils et Traverses 3: colloque international et pluridisciplinaire sur l'écriture du voyage; includes program and talk draft by Kaplan, "Traveling Subjects of Cyberspace" July 2002 3 38 Sixieme Festival International de Films de Femmes: booklets and pamphlet March 1984 3 39 Socialist Scholars Conference; includes booklet and correspondence 1987 3 40 Society Counts: schedule and talk draft by Kaplan, "The Mind's Eye in Motion: Aerial Views" May 2015 3 41 Society for Social Studies of Science: panel organization materials and remarks by Kaplan October 2007 3 42 Sound, Vision, Action; includes program, correspondence, and talk draft by Kaplan, "The Emotion of Motion: Exceeding the Visual in Views from Above" 2014 3 43 Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association; includes correspondence and schedule 1988 3 44 Space, Materiality, and Violence: workshop description and talk draft by Kaplan, "Mapping Wartime: Remote Sensing the Coup d'Oeil and the First Military Survey of Scotland" 2015 3 45 Surveillance and Society: program and talk draft by Kaplan, "Security and Surveillance in the New World Order" 2009 3 46 Teaching Introduction to Women's Studies at Georgetown University: faculty symposium syllabus circa 1988 3 47 Technologies of Power; includes flyers, correspondence, and talk draft by Kaplan, "Empire and Everyday Militarism" 2021 3 48 Think Again: Feminist Research Forum: correspondence, program, and typed talk draft by Kaplan, "Dead Reckoning: Aerial Perception, Air Power, and the Social Construction of Targets" 2005 3 49 Towards an Anti-War, Anti-Security State Politics of Feminism, Race, and Empire: flyer and talk draft by Kaplan, "When and Where is War: Domestic Wartime" 2019 3 50 Transborder California Digital Mapping Project Workshop: program and talk draft by Kaplan, "The Time and Space of Precision Targets" 2009 3 51 Trans-Formations: Cross Cultural Communities and New Forms of Commonwealth Literature; includes correspondence and programs 1989 3 52 Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies of Travel, Militarism, and Empire: A Retirement Symposium in Honor of Caren Kaplan; includes flyer and zines May 6, 2019 3 53 Scope and Contents

See commentary on page 40 of "Annotated index to contents," box 1 folder 1

Transnational Feminist Practices Against War Continued: Critiquing Endless Wars of Empire: correspondence, flyer, and comments by Kaplan 2018 3 54 Transnational Feminist Practices Against War: 20 Years Later: poster and untitled talk draft by Kaplan 2021 3 55 The Transnational Politics of Gender and Consumption: booklet and poster October 8-9, 1999 3 56 University of California Bay Area Women's Studies Consortium Conference; includes correspondence and report 1981 3 57 University of California Humanities Research Institute Social Heterogeneity Exploratory Workshop: Civil War: proposal and talk draft by Kaplan, "Out of the Blue: Air Space and Civil War" 2017 3 58 The Visual Culture of Stealth: Deception and Detection Under Neoliberal Militarism: panel proposal, correspondence, and untitled talk draft by Kaplan 2010 3 59 War and Aesthetics; includes poster, handwritten notes, and talk draft by Kaplan, "The Fabric of War" 2021 3 60 Warfare and Healthcare: Action at a Distance and Bodies in Contact: panel description and talk draft by Kaplan, "Sensing Distance: the Time and Space of War" 2012 3 61 Women in America: leagues of Race and Ethnicity: booklet and flyer April 1989 3 62 Women's Studies and the Politics of Interconnection: pamphlet circa 1979-1981 3 63 Teaching Materials Series 5 1987 - 2019 The Arts of War: Military Culture, Media, and Technology: syllabi and assignment prompts n.d. 3 64 Cultural Geographies of Gender and Travel: syllabus Spring 2000 3 65 Feminist Cultural Studies: Travel, Gender, and Empire: syllabus Spring 1995 3 66 History and Theory of Feminism: syllabi 1988 - 1989 3 67 Images of America and Americans in Popular Culture: syllabi and assignment prompts 2012 - 2019 3 68 Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World: syllabi Spring 1999 and Spring 2000 3 69 Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World: syllabi and assignment prompts 2006 - 2007 3 70 Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World: typed lecture notes 2006 - 2009 3 71 Modernism and the Colonial legacy: syllabi 1987 3 72 Objects and Everyday Life: syllabi and assignment prompts 2012 - 2018 3 73 Questions of Travel: Exploration, Expatriation, Immigration, and the Poetics of Displacement: syllabi 1990 3 74 Research Seminar: syllabi 2004 - 2019 3 75 Short Story/Novel: syllabi and assignment prompts 1987 - 1988 3 76 Theories of Cultural Studies: syllabi circa 2004 3 77 Theories of Cultural Studies: The Cultural Studies of Militarism: syllabus Spring 2006 3 78 Theories of Cultural Studies: Studies in Political and Cultural Representations: The Space/Time of Militarized Power: syllabus Winter 2012 3 79 Theories of Cultural Studies: Wartime Atmosphere and Infrastructures: syllabus Winter 2017 3 80 Theory and Critical Research: syllabus Spring 1999 3 81 Transporting the Subject: Cultures of Time and Space: syllabus Fall 2001 3 82 Travel, Gender, and Empire: syllabi 1990 3 83 Travel, Gender, and Empire: Memoirs by Women: syllabus 2009 3 84 United States Cultures in Time: The Inter-War Years: syllabus Spring 1997 4 1 War, Power, and Technology: syllabus 2008 4 2 Women's Studies: An Introduction: syllabi and handwritten notes 1987 4 3 Writings and Related Series 6 1984 - 2020 Article: "Aerial Surveying as Air Control: Geographical Knowledge in Mandate-Era Iraq:" typed draft 2018 4 4 Article: "Coronavirus Drone Genres: Spectacles of Distance and Melancholia;" includes annotated typed draft and handwritten notes 2020 4 5 Article: "Hillary Clinton's Orient: Cosmopolitan Travel and Global Feminist Subjects:" correspondence 2001 4 6 Article: "Iraq from Above: The Visual Culture of Modern War:" project proposal circa 2009-2010 4 7 Article: "On Location:" correspondence 1994 - 1997 4 8 Article: "Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Feminist Practices:" correspondence re: reprint 2003 4 9 Article: "Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Feminist Practices:" typed draft and related correspondence 1999 - 2000 4 10 Article: "Precision Targets: GPS and the Militarization of Everyday Life;" includes annotated typed drafts and related correspondence 2013 4 11 Article: "Questionnaire:" correspondence 2000 - 2001 4 12 Article: "Reconfiguration of Geography and Historical Narrative: A Review Essay:" correspondence 1990 4 13 Article: "Resisting Autobiography: Outlaw Genres and Transnational Feminist Subjects:" correspondence re: reprint 1996 - 1997 4 14 Article: "Resisting Autobiography: Outlaw Genres and Transnational Feminist Subjects:" correspondence re: reprint and translation 2015 4 15 Article: "Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies:" correspondence 1993 - 1995 4 16 Article: "Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides:" thank you note re: reprint 2004 4 17 Article: "Transnational Feminist Practices Against War:" correspondence re: reprint 2020 4 18 Article: "Transnational Feminist Practices Against War:" typed draft and correspondence 2001 4 19 Article: "Transporting the Subject: Technologies of mobility and Location in an Era of Globalization:" correspondence re: reprint 2002 4 20 Article: "Transporting the Subject: Technologies of mobility and Location in an Era of Globalization:" typed draft and correspondence 2000 - 2001 4 21 Article: "Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context:" correspondence re: reprint, 1997 1997 4 22 Article: "Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context:" correspondence and agreement re: reprint, 2000 2000 4 23 Article: "Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context:" correspondence and agreement re: reprint, 2001-2002 2001 - 2002 4 24 Article: "A World Without Boundaries:" correspondence 1994 - 1995 4 25 Article: "A World Without Boundaries:" correspondence re: reprint 1996 - 1999 4 26 Book: Aerial Aftermaths: author questionnaire 2016 4 27 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): annotated typed draft photocopy (1 of 2) n.d. 4 28 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): annotated typed draft photocopy (2 of 2) n.d. 4 29 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): annotated typed draft photocopy (1 of 2) n.d. 4 30 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): annotated typed draft photocopy (2 of 2) n.d. 4 31 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): annotated typed draft photocopy (1 of 2) n.d. 4 32 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): annotated typed draft photocopy (2 of 2) n.d. 4 33 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): author questionnaire 2000 4 34 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): contract and related correspondence 1996 - 2001 4 35 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): correspondence re: "graphics and illustrations" 2001 4 36 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): correspondence re: "illustrations" 2001 4 37 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): correspondence re: "publicity" 2001 4 38 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): correspondence re: titles 2001 4 39 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): correspondence with Deborah Cohler 2001 4 40 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): cover drafts and related correspondence 2001 4 41 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): list of book recipients 2001 4 42 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): photo credits log n.d. 4 43 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): "photo prep procedures" n.d. 4 44 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of bibliography July 2001 4 45 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of conclusion July 2001 4 46 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of "front matter" 2001 4 47 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of graphics July 2001 4 48 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of part 1 (1 of 2) June 2001 4 49 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of part 1 (2 of 2) June 2001 4 50 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of part 2 June-July 2001 4 51 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of part 3 July 2001 4 52 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proofs of part 4 July 2001 4 53 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): proposal n.d. 4 54 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): "reports," 1995-2001 1995 - 2001 4 55 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): "reports," 2000 2000 4 56 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): typed drafts and related correspondence 2001 5 1 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): typed drafts and related correspondence re: "front matter" 2001 5 2 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): typed drafts of "instructor's manual" and related correspondence 2001 5 3 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): typed drafts of table of contents n.d. 5 4 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): typed and handwritten editing notes from Deb Cohler, 2001 2001 5 5 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): typed and handwritten editing notes from Deb Cohler, n.d. (1 of 2) n.d. 5 6 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (1st edition): typed and handwritten editing notes from Deb Cohler, n.d. (2 of 2) n.d. 5 7 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): author questionnaire and fact sheet 2004 5 8 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): correspondence re: edits 2002 - 2005 5 9 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): "reports" 2006 5 10 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): reviews 2002 5 11 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): typed acknowledgements n.d. 5 12 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): typed draft of preface n.d. 5 13 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): typed draft of table of contents 2004 5 14 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): typed notes re: "reworking table of contents" 2004 5 15 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): typed notes re: "working changes" n.d. 5 16 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (2nd edition): typed notes and related correspondence re: "copyediting" 2005 5 17 Book: Introduction to Women's Studies (3rd edition): correspondence 2009 5 18 Book: Questions of Travel: "author questionnaire" 1995 5 19 Book: Questions of Travel: correspondence re: Japanese translation 2003 5 20 Book: Questions of Travel: correspondence re: reader reports 1993 - 1995 5 21 Book: Questions of Travel; includes contract and related correspondence 1992 - 1996 5 22 Book: Scattered Hegemonies; includes correspondence and reader reports re: proposal 1990 - 1991 5 23 Book: Transporting the Subject: proposal and related correspondence 2016 5 24 Chapter: "Drone Sight:" correspondence June 6, 2012 5 25 Chapter: "Eyes in the Skies:" typed drafts and correspondence 2020 5 26 Chapter: "Getting to Know You:" correspondence 1991 - 1993 5 27 Edited book: Life in the Age of Drone Warfare: chapter outlines 2016 5 28 Edited book: Life in the Age of Drone Warfare: typed chapter draft by Kaplan, "Drone-O-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logistics of Distance Warfare" 2017 5 29 Edited book: Life in the Age of Drone Warfare: typed proposals 2014 5 30 Edited book: Next Wave: new Directions in Women's Studies; includes correspondence, reader reports, and handwritten notes 1998 - 2003 5 31 Edited book: Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: proposal and related correspondence 2001 - 2002 5 32 Introduction: Gloria Anzaldua: typed drafts circa 1990 5 33 Introduction: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society v. 26 no. 4; includes typed draft and correspondence 2000 - 2001 5 34 Review: Harlow, Barbara "Resistance Literature" and Jean-Pierre Durix "The Writer Written:" typed draft and correspondence 1988 - 1989 5 35 Review: Morley, David and Kevin Robins "Spaces of identity:" correspondence, typed draft, and handwritten notes 1996 5 36 Statement: "A Note from the Unicorns: A Cultural Studies PhD program Responds to Michael Berube:" typed draft September 23, 2009 5 37 Talk: "Aerial Aftermaths: The Colonial Present in '9/11' Views from Above:" correspondence and typed draft September 2016 5 38 Talk: "Aerial Aftermaths: Dispositions, Formats, and the Politics of Evidence:" typed draft April 2016 5 39 Talk: "Aerial Aftermaths: The Visual Culture of Everyday Militarization;" includes typed draft and correspondence November 2017 5 40 Talk: "Aerial Dispositions and Atmospheric Politics:" annotated typed draft April 2016 5 41 Talk: "Aerial Perspective: Visibility and the Biopolitics of Airpower:" typed draft February 2010 5 42 Talk: "Aerial Perspectives: The 'Revolution in Military Affairs' and the Digital Culture of Air Power:" typed draft, 2007 April 2007 5 43 Talk: "Aerial Perspectives: The 'Revolution in Military Affairs' and the Digital Culture of Air Power:" typed draft, 2008 April 2008 5 44 Talk: "Aftermath: Aerial Perspective and the First Persian Gulf War;" includes typed draft and related correspondence October 2006 5 45 Talk: "Air Power at 'Home:' Continuities of Domestic Aerial Policing:" typed draft April 2015 5 46 Talk: "Air Power's Visual Culture: Viewing Iraq:" typed draft, 2009 November 2009 5 47 Talk: "Air Power's Visual Culture: Viewing Iraq:" typed draft, 2010 February 2010 5 48 Talk: "Airspaces: Protest Drones and Atmospheric Politics:" typed draft April 2019 5 49 Talk: "Atmospheric Policing in the Age of Drone Warfare: Attunements to Colonial World-Making:" typed draft and related correspondence October 2018 5 50 Talk: "The Balloon Prospect: Panoramic Art and the Emergence of a Militarized Landscape:" typed draft and printed article February 2011 5 51 Talk: "Bomb Sight: The Visual Realism of Aerial Reconnaissance:" typed draft September 2012 5 52 Talk: "Bringing the War Home: Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances;" includes typed draft, correspondence, and handwritten notes 2018 - 2019 5 53 Talk: "Bringing the War Home: Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances:" typed draft May 2019 5 54 Talk: "Bringing the War Home: Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances:" typed draft and correspondence 2018 - 2019 5 55 Talk: "Colonial Discourse and Cultural Criticism:" typed draft and flyer April 1989 5 56 Talk: "The Cosmic View: Gender, Remote Sensing, and Global Politics of Location:" typed draft and related correspondence 2001 - 2002 5 57 Talk: "Desert Wars: Virilo and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge':" typed draft and poster November 2012 5 58 Talk: "The Digital Dimensions of the Multimedia Essay:" typed draft April 2013 5 59 Talk: "Drones and the Image Complex: The Limits of Representation in the Era of Distance Warfare;" includes typed draft and correspondence 2019 5 60 Talk: "Drones and the Image Complex: The Limits of Representation in the Era of Distance Warfare;" typed draft and correspondence 2019 5 61 Talk: "Everyday Militarization:" typed draft and poster March 2012 5 62 Talk: "Everything is Connected: Aerial Perspectives, the 'Revolution in Military Affairs,' and Digital Culture:" typed draft April 2007 5 63 Talk: "Eye in the Sky: The Limits of Representation in the Era of Distance Warfare:" abstract and correspondence 2019 5 64 Talk: "Feminist Studies Meeting Cultural Studies: What Does the Nexus Look Like Now in the United States?:" types notes March 2010 5 65 Talk: "Internationalizing Women's Studies: Confronting United States Imperialism:" typed draft and handwritten notes 2003 5 66 Talk: "Literature, Feminism, Gender, Race, Class:" annotated typed draft April 1988 5 67 Talk: "Mapping Wartime: Remote Sensing, the Coup d'Oleil, and the First Military Survey of Scotland:" typed draft April 2015 5 68 Talk: "Militarizing Cultural Studies:" typed draft March 2010 5 69 Talk: "The Mind's Eye in Motion:" typed draft October 2009 5 70 Talk: "The Mind's Eye in Motion: How Airpower Makes Naturecultures:" typed draft May 2010 5 71 Talk: "Mobile Subjects: Aerial Perception, Air Power, and the Social Construction of Targets:" typed draft December 2005 6 1 Talk: "Mobility and the War: The Cosmic View of United States 'Air Power':" typed draft November 2004 6 2 Talk: "Mobility and the War: The Cosmic View of United States 'Air Power':" typed draft and handwritten notes 2004 6 3 Talk: "New Directions in Transnational Feminist Studies:" typed draft and poster 2011 6 4 Talk: "Ontologies of Aerial Observation: Panoramic Reconnaissance and the Pre-History of Air War:" typed draft 2013 6 5 Talk: "Passage to Kabul: Thinking About Homebody/Kabul after 9/11;" includes typed draft, clippings, and handwritten notes 2001 - 2002 6 6 Talk: "The Poetics of Displacement in Buenos Aires by Alicia Dujoune Ortiz;" includes annotated typed drafts and panel poster December 1995 6 7 Talk: "Postcolonial Feminist Studies of Militarization;" includes partial typed draft and related correspondence 2006 6 8 Talk: "Postmodernism and Transnational Feminism: Autobiographical Strategies;" includes typed drafts, handwritten notes, and correspondence 1990 6 9 Talk: "Precision Targets: Consumer Subjects, Militarization, and the Politics of Location:" typed draft April 2008 6 10 Talk: "Remapping or Retelling History? The Politics and the Poetics of Displacement:" typed drafts and handwritten notes 1989 6 11 Talk: "Remote Sensing, Distance, and the Imaging of War:" typed draft April 2015 6 12 Talk: "The Representation of Secrecy: Satellite Surveillance and the Militarization of Space;" includes typed draft and related correspondence 2006 6 13 Talk: "Sensing Distance: The Time and Space of Air Power:" typed draft April 16, 2013 6 14 Talk: "Sensing Distance: The Visual Practice of Drone Warfare;" includes typed draft 2013 6 15 Talk: "Sensing Everyday Militarisms: tracing the Transnational Circuits of 'Pandemic Drones';" includes typed draft and correspondence 2020 6 16 Talk: "The Sovereignty of Context: Postcommodity's 'Repellent Fence' and Atmospheric Politics at the United States-Mexico Border;" includes typed draft and correspondence 2017 6 17 Scope and Contents

See commentary on page 37 of "Annotated index to contents," box 1 folder 1

Talk: "The Sovereignty of Context: Postcommodity's 'Repellent Fence' and Atmospheric Politics at the United States-Mexico Border:" typed draft 2019 6 18 Talk: "Transnational FGM Discourse: Colonial Tropes in Intersex Activism:" typed draft and correspondence 2001 6 19 Talk: "Transnational Feminist Practices in a Time of War: Global Feminism and the Recuperation of Nationalism:" typed draft April 2003 6 20 Talk: "Transporting the Subject: Mobility, War, and the Cosmic View of United States 'Air Power':" annotated typed drafts September 2004 7 1 Talk: "Twitter Terrorists, Cellphone Jihadists, and Citizen Bloggers: The 'Global Matrix of War' and the Biopolitics of Technoculture in Mumbai:" typed draft October 2009 7 2 Talk: untitled comments re: "aerial Aftermaths author meets critics:" typed draft 2019 7 3 Talk: untitled comments re: "atmospheric things:" typed draft 2019 7 4 Talk: untitled comments re: Critical Thinking and Academic Freedom Workshop October 2007 7 5 Talk: untitled comments re: "Cinema and the Military: Case Studies in Production:" typed draft March 2014 7 6 Talk: untitled comments re: "Everyday Militarisms: Lethal Entanglements Collaboratory:" typed draft September 2018 7 7 Talk: untitled comments re: Flagging Patriotism panel at the American Association of Geographers: typed draft April 2008 7 8 Talk: untitled comments re: "French feminism;" includes typed drafts and handwritten notes circa 1984-1985 7 9 Talk: untitled comments re: "Global Feminism and the Impacts of International Charity:" correspondence and typed notes 2020 7 10 Talk: untitled comments re: "Radionaviagtion and the Politics of Geographic Knowledge:" typed draft 2014 7 11 Talk: untitled comments re: Ronak Kapadia's paper, "Palestine in the Sky" for Newberry Library Seminar: typed draft November 2017 7 12 Talk: untitled comments re: Thinking the Transnational Workshop: typed draft March 2012 7 13 Talk: untitled comments re: "Wesleyan visit;" includes typed draft and correspondence 2019 7 14 Talk: "The View from Above: Air Power's Visual Culture;" includes typed draft, 2014 2014 7 15 Talk: "The View from Above: Air Power's Visual Culture:" typed draft, 2010 October 2010 7 16 Talk: "The View from Above: Air Power's Visual Culture:" typed draft, 2011 April 2011 7 17 Talk: "Viewing Iraq: The Colonial and Postcolonial Politics of Aerial Perspective;" includes typed draft and comments from Ella Shohot 2008 7 18 Talk: "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Analog and Digital Modes of Deception in Militarized Modernity:" typed draft April 2011 7 19 Talk: "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Deception and Detection Under Neoliberal Militarism:" typed draft December 2007 7 20 Talk: "The Visual Culture of Stealth: Interpreting Militarized Aeromobility:" typed draft November 2011 7 21 Talk: "The Way We Live Now: Critical Cosmopolitanisms, Global Feminism, and the Recuperation of Nationalism;" includes typed draft and handwritten journal entry re: leaving 7-day-old adopted baby for conference 2003 7 22 Scope and Contents

See commentary on page 24 of "Annotated index to contents," box 1 folder 1

Talk: "What We're Reading:" typed draft March 2012 7 23 Talk: "Wherever You Go, There You Are: The Politics of Location in the Age of Satellite Navigation Systems:" typed draft and handwritten notes 1997 7 24 Talk: "Whiteness and Commodity Feminism in a Transnational Frame:" typed draft and correspondence 1996 - 1997 7 25 Talk: "Worlding Culture: Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies in an Era of Globalization:" poster October 2000 7 26 Translation: "Buenos Aires" by Alicia Dujoune Ortiz: correspondence and typed draft 1984 - 1991 7 27 Translation: "Ca Cloche" by Sarah Kofman: correspondence 1986 - 1990 7 28 Collection information

Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies at University of California, Davis. She has been a leading scholar of Transnational feminism, Postcolonial theory, and Militarization Studies. This collection includes correspondence related to Kaplan's academics, professional career, writings, and talks; papers from her undergraduate and graduate education; conference materials; syllabi and lecture notes; and draft writings. Materials date from 1968 – 2022 and are arranged into 6 series.

*Please note that Kaplan included an "Annotated index to contents" located in box 1 folder 1. This document is arranged chronologically and corresponds to Kaplan's original folder titles. The processor kept all original folders with their original contents so that researchers can easily locate annotations. Annotations include personal reflections, event details, and contextual information related to Kaplan's personal life and professional career. Particularly significant annotations have been noted in the inventory of this finding aid.

Series 1, PERSONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, 1980 – 2022, includes the "Annotated index to contents," CVs, and letters of recommendation for Kaplan. Also included is a file related to memorializing Professor Lester Mazor, Kaplan's mentor, who later became the subject of controversy at Hampshire College. Kaplan includes her reflections on this issue on page 32 of the "Annotated index to contents." This series is arranged alphabetically by record type.

Series 2, EDUCATION FILES, 1968 – 1989, includes correspondence, funding applications, syllabi, and papers written by Kaplan for her undergraduate education at Hampshire College and her graduate education at University of California, Santa Cruz. Of particular interest is a paper handwritten by Kaplan in secondary school regarding "The Chicago Police and the Democratic Convention." Note that the "Annotated index to contents" located in box 1 folder 1 includes detailed descriptions of Kaplan's experiences at Hampshire College and UC Santa Cruz. This series is arranged alphabetically by institution then by record type.

Series 3, ADMINISTRATIVE AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT, 1985 – 2019, includes job applications and correspondence regarding Kaplan's hiring, retention, and merit promotions. Of note are graduation remarks written by Kaplan for the University of California Berkeley Women's Studies Department in 1993, 1995, 1999, and 2001. This series is arranged alphabetically by institution then by record type.

Series 4, CONFERENCES, 1979 – 2001, includes correspondence, handwritten notes, programs, and talk drafts for various conferences. Please note that additional talk drafts are located in Series 6, Writings and Related. Conferences include "Atmospheric Politics: Asymmetrical Warfare from Above," "Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues," "Digital Legacies of the War on Terror," and "Warfare and Healthcare: Action at a Distance and Bodies in Contact." This series is arranged alphabetically by conference title and then by record type.

Series 5, TEACHING MATERIALS, 1987 – 2019, contains syllabi, assignment prompts, and handwritten and typed lecture notes for courses taught by Kaplan. Course titles include "The Arts of War: Military Culture, Media, and Technology," "Introduction to Women's Studies," "Questions of Travel: Exploration, Expatriation, Immigration, and the Poetics of Displacement," and "Travel, Gender, and Empire." This series is arranged alphabetically by course title then by record type.

Series 6, WRITINGS AND RELATED, 1984 – 2020, includes correspondence, handwritten notes, typed drafts, and proofs of articles, books, chapters, and talks by Kaplan. Titles include An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, "Atmospheric Policing in the Age of Drone Warfare: Attunements to Colonial World-Making," "Mobile Subjects: Aerial Perception, Air Power, and the Social Construction of Targets," and "Whiteness and Commodity Feminism in a Transnational Frame." Note that box 7 folder 22 also includes a handwritten journal entry written by Kaplan as she grappled with leaving her newborn child with her partner in order to attend the talk also included in the folder. This series is arranged alphabetically by format then by title then by record type.

All researchers seeking to publish materials from the collections of the John Hay Library are requested to complete a Notice of Intent to Publish, prior to reproducing, quoting, or otherwise publishing any portion or extract from this collection. Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.

Caren Kaplan papers, MS.2022.007, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library.

This collection is arranged into 6 series

Series 1. Personal and Biographical Series 2. Education Files Series 3. Administrative and Career Development Series 4. Conferences Series 5. Teaching Materials Series 6. Writings and Related

There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.

Gift of Caren Kaplan in 2022.

Additional information

See also the Inderpal Grewal papers, Ms.2018.016, Feminist Theory Archive, Brown University Library.

Names Grewal, Inderpal Feminist Theory Archive. Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Subjects Aerial photography. Critical theory. Drone aircraft -- Government policy. Drone aircraft -- Moral and ethical aspects. Feminist theory Gender studies Military photography. Photographic surveying. Science and technology studies Transnationalism. War photography. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Women's Studies