Palmer Douglas

 

Dr. Douglas Palmer joined Walsh University in the Fall of 2005 and serves as an Assistant Professor of History and Chair of the Division of Humanities.  In 2004-2005, he was a Research Fellow at the Emory University School of Law and he holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, an MA from the University of Oregon, and a BA from the University of North Carolina-Asheville.  In 2001-2002, Dr. Palmer was a Fulbright Scholar in Utrecht, the Netherlands

Dr. Palmer teaches classes in European history and his research focuses on European religious and cultural history, in particular the History of Catholicism.  Currently, he is the co-editor of the Brill Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment.  For a list of publications and conference presentations, click here.

Dr. Palmer also directs the new major in Museum Studies at Walsh University.

He and his wife Catherine are both from Pittsburgh, PA and their son, Theodore was born in 2004 in Atlanta, GA.