Danny Kaplan is a researcher and writer studying 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.

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). 

He teaches at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College.

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