Native name Robert John O'Neill Doctoral students David Horner Doctoral advisor N. H. Gibbs | Thesis year 1965 Award Rhodes Scholarship Doctoral student David Horner | |
Born 6 November 1936 (age 80) ( 1936-11-06 ) Melbourne, Victoria Awards Rhodes Scholarship (1961)
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1978)
Officer of the Order of Australia (1988)
Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (2008) Thesis title The relationship between the German Army and the Nazi Party, 1933–9 Main interests Military history
Strategic studies Books Australia in the Korean War 1950–53 Alma maters University of Oxford (MA, DPhil), University of Melbourne (BE) Institutions Australian National University (1969–1982) | ||
Robert John O'Neill AO, FASSA (born 5 November 1936) is Chair of the International Academic Advisory Committee at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, was director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London, 1982–1987, and Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford from 1987 to 2000.
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Early life and education
O'Neill graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1958, and from 1958 to 1969, served as an officer in the Regular Australian Army, during which time as an infantry captain he was Mentioned in Despatches during the Vietnam War. In 1965, he completed his D.Phil. thesis at the University of Oxford on The relationship between the German Army and the Nazi Party, 1933–9 under the direction of one of his predecessors as Chichele Professor of the History of War, Professor N. H. Gibbs.
Academic career
O'Neill served as Senior lecturer in History, Royal Military College, Duntroon, 1968–69. He was head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University in 1971–82, Senior Fellow in international Relations, 1969–1977, Professorial Fellow, 1977–1982. Australian official historian of the Korean War from 1970 until 1982, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (1982–87), and Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford (1987–2001).
He was the founding Chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (2000–05). He was Chair of the International Academic Advisory Committee at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney (2008–11). He was Chairman of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London, 1998–2001 (Trustee 1990–98). He was Chairman of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1996–2001 (council member 1977–82, 1992–96).