Mark Palmer
Mark Palmer is Professor of Geography at the University of Missouri.
Professor Palmer’s research focuses the social dimensions of geographic information systems (GIS) and Indigenous research sovereignty networks. Archival research has taken him to UNESCO in Paris, France and ethnocartography fieldwork at Tongariro National Park and with the Muaūpoko iwi in Levin, New Zealand. Palmer is currently working on a book describing the processes of translating Otomi calendar knowledge into a dome planetarium presentation as a form of digital heritage. Otomi people have inhabited the central Mexico plateau for at least seven thousand years. Over this period, they have cultivated a vast knowledge of astronomy and timekeeping. Palmer writes about the participatory processes of Indigenous technoscience design as a form of Indigenous research sovereignty. He and his colleagues work were funded by the National Science Foundation, the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Taylor Geospatial Institute. Palmer teaches Indigenous geographies, GIS, and environmental geography at Mizzou. He is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and Kiowa Gourd Clan.