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Dr. Scott W. Palmer
Professor
College Outstanding Faculty Award Winner
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Dr. Scott W. Palmer (Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1997) is the Department's Russian/Soviet historian. Dr. Palmer teaches the Department's courses on Imperial Russia [History 399], the Soviet Union [History 400(G)], and 19th-century Europe [History 428(G)], in addition to the Western Civ II survey [History 126] and occasional graduate seminars [History 530 and 531] on topics related to his scholarly interests.
Prof. Palmer's research interests focus on the cultural history of technology and modernization from the late nineteenth-century to the present. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the author of Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
He returned to the Department in Fall 2008 after spending the 2007-2008 academic year on a full-time research fellowship funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Palmer is the winner of the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award for Research/Scholarship from the WIU College of Arts and Sciences.