John Kaplan

John Kaplan, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism professor and winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, is retiring after 22 years at the College. During his tenure at CJC, Kaplan’s academic honors include being named a J. William Fulbright Scholar, UF International Educator of…

John Kaplan, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism professor, is the first non-Nobel Prize winner to join the distinguished Nobel Laureates Forum Lectureship series held in China’s Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. During the series, Kaplan conducted three sole-lectureship presentations entitled “The Power of the Lens.” University presidents…

John Kaplan, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Journalism professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, checked out Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird from the library of a Delaware high school where he was a student 43 years ago. “I was just shocked and aghast that when I…

Journalism Professor John Kaplan was recently interviewed for an article, “Pictures that Changed History,” published in the Sept. 7 edition of the Beijing Mirror Evening News. The article was spurred by the impact of the harrowing photograph of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi on Turkey’s Bodrum beach. Kaplan commented that the…

John Kaplan has been awarded a $5,000 Undergraduate Course Development Grant to design a new course entitled “International Humanitarian Communication.” The course will be a component of UF’s new International Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary campus-wide program offering all degree-seeking undergraduate students an avenue to internationalize their undergraduate experience. The University…

Photojournalism professor John Kaplan’s solo photographic exhibition, “Not As I Pictured,” is on display at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s David J. Sencer Museum in Atlanta. The Sencer Museum is in association with the Smithsonian Institution. Kaplan’s exhibit is part of the CANCER: Survivors in Focus exhibit now…

Photojournalism professors John Freeman and John Kaplan are quoted in the Dec. 4, 2012 Gawker story, “Would You Have Taken the Post Subway Photo?: Pulitzer-Winning Photographers Respond.”