Current research interests: My work focuses upon the social aspects of geographic information systems including the uneven development of geographic information networks within government agencies and their connections/disconnections within indigenous communities in North America. More recently, I have begun to position my work along an interface between indigenous knowledge systems, the geosciences, and digital technologies like GIS, in hopes of determining how culture like language, storytelling, education, and performance influence the use and understanding of geographic information. |
Representative publications:
• Palmer, M. 2012. Encountering Indigital Geographic Information Networks. Forthcoming. Cartographica.
• Palmer, M. 2012. Cartographic Encounters at the BIA GIS Center of Calculation. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 36(2).
• Palmer, M. 2011. Sold! The Loss of Kiowa Allotments in the Post-Indian Reorganization Era. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 35(3) 37-57.
• Palmer, M. and J. Hanney. 2010. Geographic Information Networks in American Indian Governments and Communities. International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking 2(2): 1-10.
• Palmer, M., R.D. Elmore, M.J. Watson, K. Kloesel, K. Palmer. 2009. Xoa:dau to Maunkaui: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into an Undergraduate Earth Systems Science Course. Journal of Geoscience Education 57(2): 137-44.
• Palmer, M. 2009. Engaging with Indigital Geographic Information Networks. Futures 41: 33-40.
• Palmer, M. 2006. Cut From the Same Cloth: The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, Geographic Information Systems, and Cultural Assimilation. In Information Technology and Indigenous People edited by Laurel Evelyn Dyson, Max Hendriks, and Stephen Grant. Idea (Hershey, PA: Group Publishing, 220-231).
• Palmer, M. and R. Rundstrom. 2005. Commentary in response to "Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology" by C. Aporta and E. Higgs. Current Anthropology 46(5): 747-48
• Palmer, M. and R. Rundstrom. 2005. Commentary in response to "Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology" by C. Aporta and E. Higgs. Current Anthropology 46(5): 747-48.
Other Publications
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Elmore, R.D., Palmer, M.H., Watson, M.J., and K. Kloesel. 2008. A Pipeline for Native American Students in Geoscience at the University of Oklahoma. Geoscience Diversity 2008: Status, Strategies, and Successful Models I, 2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM. Vol. 40, No. 6, p. 129
• Palmer, M. H., S. Stevenson, and D. S. Zaras. 2000. Student Evaluations of the Oklahoma Weather Center REU Program: 1995, 1998, and 1999. Preprints, Ninth Symposium on Education, Long Beach, Calif., American Meteorological Society, 24-27.
• Palmer, M.H., 1998. Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the Oklahoma Weather Center: Summer 1998. Preprints, Eighth Symposium on Education, Dallas, Texas, American Meteorological Society, 42-45.
Graduate Students Advised and Completed
2010 Jack Hanney, MA Department of Geography, Discourse Analysis of Chickasaw Media
2011 Scott Kraushaar, MA Department of Geography, Volunteered Geographic Information and Storm Chasing
2011 Denise McElroy, MA Department of Geography, Teaching the Geography of Native Americans
Graduate Student Committees Completed
2011 Michelle Bogowith, MU Department of Atmospheric Sciences
2010 Jayme Cisco, MU Department of Anthropology
2010 Todd Mormon, MU Department of History
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Graduate Program in Geography
