Brian Palmer

Brian Charles William Palmer (born 1964) is a social anthropologist and scholar of religion at Uppsala University.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Brian Palmer graduated valedictorian of his class at Stuyvesant High School, and later he received his doctorate at Harvard University in 2000 with the dissertation Wolves at the Door: Existential Solidarity in a Globalizing Sweden, was lecturer on the Modern West until 2004. In 2002 he was voted "best lecturer" at Harvard University.

Brian Palmer currently lives in Stockholm.

Brian Palmer currently teaches at Uppsala University in Sweden, while also lecturing widely outside the university.Previously he held the Torgny Segerstedt Guest Professorship at Gothenburg University.

Selected publications

• Global Values 101: A Short Course. USA: Beacon Press. 2006. ISBN 0807003050.
• George W Reinfeldt : konsten att göra en politisk extreme makeover. Sweden: Karneval förlag. 2006. ISBN 9197603147.