Danny Kaplan specializes in the anthropology of emotions through the prism of friendship and nationalism. He has conducted extensive field research in Israel focusing on masculinity, militarism and commemoration. He is also studying mechanisms of solidarity in mass media and popular music.

Danny is a senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University. He directs the men studies track at the Gender Studies Program and teaches at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Psychology.

Danny is the author of Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units (Haworth Press 2003) and The Men We Loved: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture (Berghahn Books 2006). 

Danny is a Jerusalemite at heart, currently living in Tel Aviv.