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Dr. Palo is an Associate Professor of History at Vesalius College of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He received a BA in History (1966) and an MA in History (1969) from Queens College of the City University of New York and a Ph.D. in History (1978) from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana). Prof. Paul W. Schroeder (emeritus) directed his doctoral Dissertation, entitled “The Diplomacy of Belgian War Aims During the First World War.”
Before coming to Vesalius College in 1990, Dr. Palo served as director of study abroad programs in France for Illinois State University (Grenoble, January 1979-June 1984) and for the University of Notre Dame (Angers, September 1986-June 1990). He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Association Belge d’Histoire Contemporaine/Belgische Vereninging voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, and Phi Alpha Theta, the International History Honor Society. His fields of interest include nineteenth-and twentieth-century diplomatic history, the history of the world wars, Belgian history, historiography, and contemporary international relations. His publications include: an article entitled “The Question of Neutrality and Belgium’s Security Dilemma during the First World War: The Search for a Politically Acceptable Solution,” which appeared in the July 2000 issue of the Revue belge d’histoire contemporaine/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis (Ghent), vol. XXIX, nos. 1-2, pp. 227-304; and an article entitled “‘Dad, what did you do in the war?’ A Postmodernist? Classroom Exercise” in The History Teacher (Long Beach, California) 33, no. 2 (February 2000), 193-212.
He is currently working on a textbook that will take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of international relations and conflict from 1815 to the present.