Patty O'Brien

Associate Professor Patricia A. O'Brien is Australian, and an internationally recognized historian of Australia, the Pacific, America, and colonialism. She is based at Georgetown University, and is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Pacific Affairs at Australian National University. She is the author of Tautai: Samoa, World History and the Life and Ta'isi O. F. Nelson (Uni of Hawaii Press 2017), and co-editor with Australian historian Joy Damousi of League of Nations (MUP 2018). She is a regular contributor in the Australian, New Zealand, and US editions of The Conversation on contemporary and historical Australian and Pacific issues, and a feature writer and Oceania blogger for the leading foreign policy publication, The Diplomat. She was commissioned by the Australian Museum to write the 100 entries for their '100 People who Shaped Australia' display, and is regularly approached as an expert commentator for media and podcast interviews.