ABOUT

Clarity. Organization. Follow-through.

Abram Kaplan, Ph.D., has worked in the field of conflict resolution for 35 years and has been a full-time faculty member at Denison University for 30+ years, where he is Director of Environmental Studies and the inaugural holder of the Anne Powell Riley Professorship. His research, teaching, and practice focus on change process at both micro/personal and macro/institutional scales.

For a dozen years, Kaplan served as negotiation lead instructor for the U.S. Geological Survey’s national leadership program, and regularly teaches a 15-week college level conflict resolution course. He has shared relevant work in national journals and conferences, and has been a member of the Association of Conflict Resolution since its inception in 2001.

Kaplan is a certified mediator through the Social Justice Mediation Institute, and completed the International Ombuds Association “foundations” course as part of his work in spearheading Denison’s Faculty Ombuds Program, which he coordinates.