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Dr. Ernest Gunasekara-Rockwell is the editor of The Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs and former director of Air University Press. He is a social scientist, with a doctorate degree in folklore from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Personal life
Gunsasekara-Rockwell was born in 1970 and grew up in rural Johnson County, Missouri. He is married to Dr. Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell, a university administrator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Career
Dr. Gunsasekara-Rockwell earned his bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of Central Missouri (UCM) in 1993, finishing his final semester as a United States Information Agency-funded exchange student at the Corvinus University of Budapest. In Budapest, he studied under the guidance of sociologist Rudolf Andorka. In 1995, he graduated with his master of arts degree in history from UCM, and shortly thereafter returned to the university as a graduate assistant in the higher education administration program, working at the student union.

In the early 2000s, Gunasekara-Rockwell served as a human intelligence officer in the United States Army, graduating from the Defense Language Institute's Korean program and the United States Army Intelligence Center. His last unit was the 101st Airborne Division. Following an injury, he was medically retired and returned to academia in pursuit of his doctorate, studying under the tutelage of Drs. James P. Leary, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and Joseph W. Elder. His research focused on religious folklore, especially South Asian and Mormon folklore.

Finishing his PhD in 2010, Dr. Gunasekara-Rockwell returned to the Defense Language Institute as an administrative professor, writing and editing cultural orientations and country-in-perspective guides for deploying service members. In 2012, he accepted a position as a research and writing specialist with Air University Press, steadily moving up its ranks, serving as managing editor and acting dean of the Air Force Research Institute before assuming the duties of director of the press and overseeing its merger with the Air and Space Power Journal and Strategic Studies Quarterly and the newly merged organization's transfer to the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education as part of the ongoing transformation of Air University (United States Air Force).

Works
(edited by Dr. Ernest Allan Rockwell)

(edited by Dr. Ernest Allan Rockwell)

(edited by Dr. Ernest Allan Rockwell)

(edited by Dr. Ernest Allan Rockwell)

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2014). "Evolution of a Deity: An Ethnological Examination of Yima, Yama, and Imrā." Fravahr.org, http://www.fravahr.org/spip.php?article541.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan, editor. (2014). "Commander-Directed Investigation: ICBM Test Compromise at Malmstrom Air Force Base." United States Air Force.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2013). Arabic (Palestinian): Cultural Orientation. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2012). Niger: Country in Perspsective. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2012). Palestinian Territories: Country in Perspective. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2012). Sri Lanka: Country in Perspective. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2012). Tamil (Sri Lanka): Cultural Orientation. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2011). Portuguese (Angola): Cultural Orientation. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2011). Telugu: Cultural Orientation. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2011). Angola: Country in Perspective. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.

Rockwell, Ernest Allan. (2011). Georgia: Country in Perspective. Monterey, CA: Defense Language Institute.