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Kenneth T. Palmer is Professor of Political Science. He has taught at the University of Maine since 1969, where he has served as coordinator of the graduate program and as department chairperson. He has also taught at Hamilton College and Franklin and Marshall College. He received a B.A. from Amherst College (1959) and a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University (1964).
He is the author or co-author of Maine Politics and Government (1992); The Changing Politics of Federal Grants (1984); State Politics in the United States (1977); Downeast Politics (1975); and Introduction to Politics (1968). His articles on state politics and federalism have appeared to such journals as Publius: The Journal of Federalism; Journal of State Government; Maine Policy Review; Public Administration Quarterly; National Civic Review; and the New York State Bar Journal. As author or co-author, he has contributed chapters on Maine politics to several recent works examining political activities in the states including Home Rule in America (2000); Prayers and Precincts: The Christian Right in the 1998 Elections (2000); God at the Grassroots: The Christian Right in the 1996 Elections (1997); State Party Systems (1997); and Redistricting the Fifty States (1992). His current research focuses on the politics of term limits in the Maine legislature.
In his career, Professor Palmer has served on the research staffs of the Brookings Institution and of the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. His academic honors include the John Donovan Award for the best paper presented at the New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting and appointment as an adjunct scholar in the Center for the Study of Federalism at Temple University. He has been twice elected to the Executive Committee of the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association. Between 1987 and 1997 he served as Book Review Editor for Publius: The Journal of Federalism. In 2001 he received a University of Maine post-tenure achievement award.
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