{"id":3190,"date":"2023-06-06T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T11:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/video-games\/?page_id=3190"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:14:09","slug":"meet-the-gamemaster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/video-games\/meet-the-gamemaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The GameMaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3476\" src=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/video-games\/files\/2024\/12\/palmer_24_300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/video-games\/files\/2024\/12\/palmer_24_300x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/video-games\/files\/2024\/12\/palmer_24_300x250-42x50.jpg 42w, https:\/\/spoke-network.org\/courses\/video-games\/files\/2024\/12\/palmer_24_300x250-83x100.jpg 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>A specialist in the interdisciplinary history of Russian technology, science, culture, and the arts, Prof. Scott W. Palmer earned his B.A. in History and Slavic Languages &amp; Literatures from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dictatorship-Air-Aviation-Cambridge-Centennial\/dp\/0521130433\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1VURK5VR2WRXH&amp;keywords=dictatorship+of+the+air&amp;qid=1675361275&amp;sprefix=dictatorship+of+the+air%2Caps%2C124&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia <\/em><\/a>(Cambridge University Press, 2006), <span class=\"TextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body\">co-editor of <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slavica.indiana.edu\/rgwr-v11-science-technology-environment-and-medicine-in-russias-great-war-and-revolution-1914-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body\">Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia\u2019s Great War and Revolution<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body\"> (<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body\">Slavica Publishers<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body\">, 2022) and <a href=\"https:\/\/uta.pressbooks.pub\/historicalresearch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>How History is Made: A Student&#8217;s Guide to the Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline<\/em><\/a> (Mavs Open Press, 2022), and, most recently, editor of <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamupress.com\/book\/9781648433078\/flight-culture-and-the-human-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body\">Flight Culture and the Human Experience <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW131645482 BCX9\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"Body\">(Texas A&amp;M University Press, 2025)<\/span><\/span>. His current book-length project, <em>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 href=\"http:\/\/spoke-network.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPOKE-Network\u2122<\/a>) which serves as home to \u201cScott W. Palmer&#8217;s History of Video Games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A specialist in the interdisciplinary history of Russian technology, science, culture, and the arts, Prof. Scott W. 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