Nathan Hamm

Nathan’s interest in Central Asia began when he joined the Peace Corps in 2000, thinking he was being assigned to Russia. Instead, he was assigned to Uzbekistan, where he found that Central Asia was far more interesting than Russia. He lived in Navoiy, where he taught English and worked with local businesses and social institutions on a variety of development projects.

He is a graduate of the University of Oregon, where he focused primarily on Russian politics. He completed his M.A. in Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington’s Jackson School in 2007, where he primarily focused on the role of socio-cultural factors and administrative features inherited from the Soviet Union in shaping policies of the Central Asian states. His thesis can be found here.

Nathan has worked professionally on Central Asian issues since 2003, and since 2007, has been been a full-time analyst, consulting with clients on Central Asian affairs. He assists organizations to incorporate socio-cultural knowledge into their decision-making processes and to visualize spatial and temporal relationships by mapping social, cultural, and political datasets.

Everything he writes here are solely his own opinions, ideas, and research and should not be taken to reflect on or represent the positions of his employers, their clients, or his clients unless explicitly stated otherwise.

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