Nathan Loggins (he/him)

Nathan is originally from the US state of Georgia, where he received his undergraduate and MA degrees in Linguistics at UGA in Athens.  He lived abroad from 2010-2013, teaching English at universities in Beijing and Dalian in China, and assistant-teaching for the JET Program in rural Kagoshima, Japan.  In 2013, he came to the University of Washington to pursue a PhD, where he took a wide array of classes related to Asian Studies, Chinese and Japanese, and taught courses in Linguistics, English, and Asian Languages and Literature.  He completed his dissertation in 2022, on the topic of language contact and mixed languages in minority areas along China's historical and cultural borders with Tibet.  He lives in Seattle with his wife and two cats, and enjoys following music, film and literature from China, Korea and Japan.