She earned her PhD in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, was published by Duke University Press in 1996. Two new books are in the Duke pipeline: Transporting the Subject: U.S. Technoscience, Militarization and Cosmopolitan Modernities and, in collaboration with Inderpal Grewal, Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Markers, Subjects, and Rights in a Global Frame. Postcolonial feminist studies of militarism is a recurrent focus in Kaplan’s work.