Dr. Kaplan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communications, and in the Master's program in cultural studies at the Open University. Dr. Kaplan is a sociologist of culture specializing in cultural class analysis. In her research she focuses on class leisure practices, aesthetic tastes, spirituality, food and eating, the body and sexuality as new forms of cultural capital. Recently she began to research class aspects of energy consumption and the environment. Dr. Kaplan was a visiting researcher at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Research at NYU, a postdoctoral fellow at City University of London and a senior researcher at the Mandel Scholion Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research on the cultural history of beauty in Israel was funded by the National Science Foundation. Her article "Jewish new age and the middle class: Jewish identity politics in Israel under neoliberalism" (together with Rachel Wertzberger) won the 2019 Outstanding Article Award from the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR). Her article "'Ain't I a human being?': Self-documentation of living in poverty in the face of the abandoning state" (together with Gal Levy, Abigail Bitton and Ricky Cohen in Nalulu won second place in the Israel Sociological Association's Outstanding Article Award for 2022. Her book "What is Sexual Capital?" (with Eva Illouz) was published in seven languages and published in English by Polity Press in 2022.