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Assoc. Professor Patricia O'Brien
Georgetown UniversityAssociate Professor Patricia O’Brien is faculty in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. teaching on Pacific pasts, presents and futures. She is also a Visiting Fellow with the Department of Pacific Affairs at Australian National University, Canberra, where she was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History from 2014 to 2019. From 2001 to 2013 she was the resident Australian and Pacific historian at Georgetown University. She was the J. D. Stout Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Victoria University Wellington in 2012 and the Jay I. Kislak Fellow in American Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC in 2011. She is the author of "Tautai: Sāmoa, World History and the Life and Ta’isi" (O. F. Nelson (2017); "The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific" (2006) and is co-editor with Joy Damousi of "League of Nations: Histories, Legacies and Impact" (2018). She has also written numerous other Pacific-focused works on gender, empire, violence and colonial cultural histories.