Stephen Edward Nash grew up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, where he received an early exposure to anthropology and archaeology from family and friends then employed by the University of Chicago and The Field Museum. After earning his Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Grinnell College, Iowa, Nash returned to Chicago and spent two years working in cultural resource management at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1988 he enrolled in graduate studies at The University of Arizona in Tucson.

Nash's early graduate study was focused on the Middle Paleolithic of France, but in 1991 he gained employment at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and has since focused his efforts on archaeological tree-ring dating method and theory. He earned his doctorate in 1997 after successfully defending a dissertation entitled "A History of Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating: 1914-1945. He is currently in the process of publishing the dissertation as a monograph, and has submitted individual chapters thereof as articles. Nash hopes to successfully integrate the results of the Paul S. Martin Project in his ongoing research in the history of archaeological method and theory.

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