Patrick McCarthy has worked with the Bosnian community since 1993. McCarthy traveled to wartime Sarajevo in 1994 to provide humanitarian assistance, entering the city by way of the tunnel under the airport. The same year, McCarthy founded the St. Louis Bosnian Student Project, which located scholarships for Bosnian student refugees. Patrick is the author of After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis, a companion volume to an exhibit at the Missouri Historical Society that drew 55,000 visitors in the year 2000. With Akif Cogo, Patrick co-authored Bosnian St. Louis: Between Two Worlds (2022). An honorary member of the Bosnian Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences, McCarthy served as adviser to the traveling exhibit, "Prijedor: Lives from the Bosnian Genocide." McCarthy’s professional work is as a Professor and Associate Dean at Saint Louis University, where he directs the Medical Center Library. He now coordinates the Working Group for BiH that seeks align US policy for NATO and EU Membership for BIH, outlawing genocide denial in Bosnia and the glorification of war criminals, and needed Consitutional changes in BiH.
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