Scott W. Palmer, Ph.D. is the founder, President, and CEO of SPOKE Educational Network, Inc. (SPOKE-Network™).
An award-winning scholar, inspirational instructor, and visionary leader, he has served students and the general public for the better part of three decades in a variety of teaching and administrative positions. Actively involved in community engagement, distance education, and web development since the late 1990s, he has used his considerable experience with interactive instructional technologies and commitment to public service to launch innovative programs that promote student success and outreach to K-12 educators.
A 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 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), co-editor of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia’s Great War and Revolution (Slavica Publishers, 2022) and How History is Made: A Student’s Guide to the Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline (Mavs Open Press, 2022), and editor of the forthcoming collection Flight Culture and the Human Experience (Texas A&M University Press, 2024).