Dayna Barnes is a historian of 20th century International Relations, specializing in the United States and East Asia. She is interested in policy, politics, and grand strategy.
She is an Associate Professor in the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defense University. Before joining NDU, Barnes was the Director of the Centre for Modern History an Associate Professor (senior lecturer) in the Department of International Politics and at City, University of London. She completed her PhD in International History at the London School of Economics.
She is the author of Architects of Occupation: American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan (Cornell University Press, 2017) and is currently writing a new global history of the Second World War in Asia.