Bob Darcy

co-author of The Oklahoma Women's Almanac

November 4, 2015

Bob Darcy has taught at Oklahoma State University since 1977 and has been a Regents Professor since 1991. He has been visiting professor at Keele University, England; Trinity College, Dublin; Queen's University, Belfast; University College, Galway; University of New South Wales, Australia; Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul; Nagpur University, India; and the universities of Connecticut and New Orleans. He lectured throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. He has also published fiction. Darcy has been appointed to Oklahoma commissions dealing with judicial selection and women's issues and has served as an expert on elections and racial disparities for attorneys general in the federal courts of six states. He was elected chair of the A&S Faculty Council, chair of the OSU General Faculty and of OSU's AAUP chapter. His honors include OSU's Sigma Xi Lectureshiy; the Oklahoma Bar Association's Liberty Bell Award, a Commendation from the Oklahoma House of Representatives; Keele University's (England) Bruce Fellow; The Oklahoma Political Science Association's Oklahoma's Outstanding Political Scientist. Darcy's biographies are in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He is married to Lynne Murnane. They have two daughters, Mary and Catherine, and two grandchildren, Éamonn and Ruairí­.

The Oklahoma Women's Almanac provides fascinating information on the status of women in Oklahoma; in depth statistics cover all aspects of women's situation; biographies and pictures of hundreds of Oklahoma women all make for a celebration of the contribution women have made to this state.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2008-honorees/bob-darcy

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