Dr Noah Tucker
Research Fellow
Dr. Noah Tucker is a Research Fellow at the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and an Associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He was previously Managing Editor at Registan.net and Senior Editor for Central Asia at RFE/RL. He worked as a national security professional for 10 years in the United States and has served as research consultant for a variety of international organizations seeking expertise on religion and conflict in Central Asia, including USAID, OSCE, UNDP, the US State Department, USIP, UNOCT, The Global Coalition against Daesh, the French Ministry of Defense, Freedom House, and a variety of other government and NGO clients.
Noah has worked on Central Asian issues since 2002, specializing in religion, national identity, ethnic conflict and social media. He received an MA from Harvard in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies in 2008, and a PhD from the University of St Andrews Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence where he works on the relationship between trauma and violent extremism in Central Asia. He has spent six years living and working in in the region, primarily in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Southern Kyrgyzstan and works in Russian and Uzbek. In addition to academic work, he’s published with Foreign Policy and International Crisis Group and his work has been covered or contributed to reporting in the New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, among others.