Media & Public Scholarship

Dr. Caplan joins the podcast to discuss her new book.

Dr. Caplan joins the hosts for a discussion of her new book and contemporary humor in America.

Dr. Caplan asks in this issue of The Revealer, why is humor is synonymous with Jews, and are Jews disproportionately represented in comedy industries?

Dr. Caplan reflects on the stereotype of the Jewish American Princess.

Dr. Caplan in conversation with Dr. Sarah Emanuel about Judaism and humor.

Dr. Caplan appears on the “Religion &” series for an episode on Religion and humor, featuring experts in Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim comedy.

Dr. Caplan discusses Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus and the controversy in January 2022, when a school board in Tennessee banned its teaching.

In this issue of Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Dr. Caplan writes that you can’t just swap out Maus for another Holocaust book. It’s special.

In this podcast, Dr. Caplan talks about how we teach and talk about Jewish studies and Jewish history, and how we justify its study to our students, colleagues, and the wider world.

In this podcast, Dr. Caplan talks about why we should retire the Jewish American Princess archetype and replace it with a new one: the Modern Ashkenazi-American Woman.