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PATRICK O’MEARA
Patrick O’Meara is Vice President Emeritus of International Affairs, and currently Special Advisor to the President at Indiana University. He is also Professor of Political Science and Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. O’Meara was born in Cape Town, South Africa.

Professor O’Meara has been called upon for interviews on southern Africa and South Africa by United States national television programs such as the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Voice of America, National Public Radio. He has also testified before the House Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Congress on African Affairs and the House Committee on Postsecondary Education. O’Meara was project director for “Living Africa: A Village Experience,” a film on life in a Senegalese village which was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and which was a finalist in the New York Film festival. He has published lead articles, as well as country studies for the Americana Encyclopedia and has also published numerous articles in journals and newspapers. Professor O’Meara appears in Who’s Who in America as well as in Men of Achievement and in Community Leaders in America.

He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Cross of Saint George, awarded in Spain; the Warsaw University Medal, the Amicus Poloniae, from the Embassy of Poland; and an honorary doctorate from NIDA University in Thailand, as well as IU’s Thomas Hart Benton Medal, the IU John W. Ryan Award, the IU Distinguished Service Award and the IU President’s Medal.

Books

• Rhodesia: Racial Conflict or Co-existence? (1975)

• International Politics in Southern Africa (1982)

• Southern Africa in Crisis (1977)

• African Independence; the First Twenty-Five Years (1985)

• Africa (1995)

• Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century (2000)

• Changing Perspectives on International Education (2001)

External Links

Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Office of International Affairs

IU's O'Meara receives President's Medal for contributions to international engagement

The Patrick O'Meara International Lecture

Indiana University Department of Political Science

Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs