Natosha Hoduski

Natosha Hoduski is a Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) research associate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St. Andrews where she studies international relations with a focus on hydro-politics of conflict in Syria. She is a fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies and an associate of the Institute of Middle East, Central Asia, and Caucus Studies. She graduated with honors from the University of Edinburgh with an M.Sc. in international relations of the Middle East with Arabic, where her thesis focused on the nexus of topography and Kurdish mobilization efforts in North and East Syria. Natosha has worked with refugee populations in Chios, Greece, and in Ramallah and Nablus, Palestine. In the West Bank, she conducted fieldwork in Bedouin communities in the Negev and attended Birzeit University, studying in their Advanced Arabic program.

Natosha's research at CGSR focuses on water-conflict trends, drivers, and security issues in Syria, specifically reviewing the way water is instrumentalized by violent non-state actors. In addition to this project, Natosha works on The New Dynamics of Long-Term Competition project at CGSR.