Erica Marat

Erica Marat, PhD, is an assistant professor and director of Homeland Defense Fellowship Program at the College of International Security Affairs of the National Defense University in Washington DC. She specializes in law enforcement and policing in former Soviet states. Before joining CISA, Marat was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. She previously worked at the Voice of America’s Russian Service and was a research fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program affiliated with the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.