Year: 2019
Type: other
Abstract: A lthough he had been suffering poor health for some time, Colin A. Palmer died unexpectedly on June 20 while on a research visit to his native Jamaica.A scholar of singular distinction, Palmer made an indelible impact on the historical profession.He was an outstanding teacher, a consummate academician, and a warm, thoughtful, kind, and gentle individual.He was 75 years old.Palmer was born in the southwestern parish of Westmoreland in the county of Cornwall in Jamaica to a family of teachers, civil servants, postal officers, and politicians.A relative, Sir Clifford Campbell, was appointed the first locally born Governor General of the island of Jamaica after its independence in 1962.He attended high school at Clarendon College, and went on to the University College of the West Indies (then an external College of the University of London), graduating in 1964 with a history honors degree.He entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison in January 1965 and enrolled in the newly established Comparative Tropical History Program, which would eventually become the foundation for the university's outstanding Global Studies program.Palmer majored in Latin American studies and persuaded the program director to accept his new minor in African Diaspora studies.He would eventually make extraordinary field-defining contributions to three distinct fields: Latin American, African Diaspora, and Caribbean history.
DOI: 10.1017/tam.2019.74
Author: Franklin W. Knight
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2978224610