Dr. Barbara Salera holds a PhD in political science from Washington State University and is currently Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Security Cooperation University, School of Security Cooperation Studies. She is a former National Security Education Program Boren Fellow and has conducted extensive field work in Tanzania and Malawi. She has written and published in the areas of the pedagogy of teaching political science, democratization and state-building in the developing world, military assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa, evaluations of non-governmental organization capacity-building programs, the integration of Women, Peace and Security objectives into security cooperation, cyber security and humanitarian assistance.