Natalie Navarette

Natalie Navarrete is a first-year MPhil student and Rhodes Scholar studying Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford. In addition to her degrees in International Affairs, Spanish, and Russian from the University of Georgia, she participated in the Russian Flagship Program and completed her Capstone year at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. She participated in intensive Russian language studies, interned as a translator, and conducted research on Kazakh national identity while in Almaty. Natalie is also interested in nuclear nonproliferation policy in Central Asia and researched this topic as an intern at the US Department of Energy. In the summer of 2023, she conducted research on the impact of the war in Ukraine on nuclear disarmament discourse as a Summer Fellow for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center.