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: Sāmoa, World History and the Life and Ta’isi O. F. Nelson (2017), The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific (2006), “100 People who Shaped Australia” in 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum (2017) 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. Currently her work focuses on these themes relating to Australia, New Zealand, Sāmoa and New Guinea in the interwar period. From 2001 to 2013 she was the resident Australian and Pacific historian at Georgetown University, Washington DC and 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.