Nate Jones serves as the Director of the Global Precincts Project. In addition to his work with GPP, Nate is the Assistant Director of Advising and Professional Development with the Program in Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder and a Board Member for Boulder Dushanbe Sister Cities. Nate recently graduated with his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center and undertook his doctoral research in Kazakhstan and Siberia. His dissertation examined how new states cultivate citizenship and a sense of civic nationalism with a focus on Central Asia and Russia. Nate’s current anthropological endeavors involve investigating how indigenization, national identity, and state policies coalesce into professional-level design projects within artistic mediums such as textiles, decorative painting, landscaping, and architecture in Central Asia’s Ferghana Valley.

 

Beyond his professional work, Nate is a native Utahn and is thrilled to be living