Patricia O'Brien (author) Patricia O'Brien is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University. She is the author of Tautai- Samoa, World History and the Life and Ta'isi O. F. Nelson and The Pacific Muse- Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific, as well as numerous other works on gender, empire, race and colonial cultural history. From 2001 to 2013 she was the resident Australian and Pacific historian at Georgetown University, Washington DC, in 2011 the Jay I. Kislak Fellow in American Studies at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington DC and the J. D. Stout Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Victoria University Wellington in 2012.
