Niall Palmer

Profile:

Niall Palmer is Lecturer in American Politics. He is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas and formerly taught at Bristol University.

Research interests:

The U.S. presidency (historical and contemporary); American political parties and elections; the Harding administration; political history of the 1920s.

PhD Supervision:

The U.S Presidency
U.S. Politics in the 1920s
U.S. Electoral Politics and Parties
Religion in U.S. Politics
U.S Politics and the Media

Recent work:

The Twenties in America: Politics and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2006 (ISBN: 0-7486-2037-0).

The Veterans' Bonus and the Evolving Presidency of Warren G Harding, Presidential Studies Quarterly. 2008. Vol. 38, No.1.

Public speaking:

Guest speaker, Labour Party Progress roundtable on US elections, House of Commons. 2008.

Political commentary for BBC regional radio. January 2008.

Visiting Scholarship at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, St Anselm's College. N.H. January 2008.

Guest lecturer at the Ohio State Historical Society, June 2007.

Work in Progress:

Dr Palmer is currently writing a revisionist hsitory of the administration of President Warren G Harding and conducting research on the 2005-07 frontloading phenomenon in U.S. presidential primaries.