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\"PhotoA specialist in the interdisciplinary history of Russian technology, science, culture, and the arts, Prof. Palmer earned his B.A. in History and Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/span>(Cambridge University Press, 2006),\u00a0co-editor of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia\u2019s Great War and Revolution<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>(<\/span>Slavica Publishers<\/span>, 2022) and\u00a0How History is Made: A Student\u2019s Guide to the Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline<\/em><\/a><\/span> (Mavs Open Press, 2022), and, most recently, editor of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Flight Culture and the Human Experience<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em>(Texas A&M University Press, 2025)<\/span><\/span>. His current book-length project, How Russia was Made: Technology and Culture from the Icon to the iMac<\/em>, examines the foreign origins and domestic transformation of major technological systems from the founding of the Kievan state through the opening decades of the twenty-first century. He is the founder, President and CEO of SPOKE Educational Network, Inc.<\/a> <\/span>(SPOKE-Network\u2122<\/a><\/span>) which serves as home to “The Great War, 1914\u20131918.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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