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The Ostrom Workshop collaborates with faculty locally and throughout the world who support our renewed mission “to build upon the theme of governance to understand and address major societal problems.” The Ostrom Workshop has developed an international reputation for innovative research related to institutional analysis and common-pool resource governance. As we build on that legacy and transition to a focus on governance, we seek to renew, broaden, and strengthen affiliation with faculty from a broad range of disciplines.

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Indiana University Affiliates | External Affiliates

Current Indiana University Affiliates

Name	General Research Interests	Geographical Area
Michael Alexeev Economics	New institutional economics; economics of natural resources; fiscal federalism	Russia, US
John S. Applegate Maurer School of Law	US environmental law; international environmental law	Primarily US
Shahzeen Attari SPEA	Individual perceptions, motivations, and biases related to resource use; application areas include efficiency	US, Kenya, Zambia
Claudia N. Avellaneda SPEA	Governance and performance in developing countries	Latin America
Sarah Bauerle Danzman International Studies	International political economy of finance; multinational production networks	Globally focused
Mostafa Beshkar Economics	International trade policy; international economic agreements; industrialization
William Bianco Political Science	Political economy; legislative politics	US, Russia
William Blomquist Political Science, IUPUI	Institutions; water resource management
David Bosco International Studies	International organizations; international law; global governance	Experience in the Balkans & Latin America, but my research is primarily thematic in nature
Jennifer Brass SPEA	Service provision; politics; implementation; electricity	Sub-Saharan Africa
Eduardo S. Brondizio Anthropology	Human-environment interaction; land use; global change; institutional analysis; mixed methods; complex systems; rural-urban linkages	Amazon, Latin America
Brian Broughman Maurer School of Law	Corporate law and governance
Jason Brown Kelley School of Business-Accounting	Experimental economics	US
Jerome Busemeyer Psychological & Brain Sciences	Human judgment and decision making
Jean Camp School of Informatics & Computing	Security; social informatics; proactive health informatics	US
Fred Cate Vice President for Research	Privacy; cybersecurity	US, Europe
Sanya Carley SPEA	Energy policy; economic development; policy instruments; applied econometrics	Mostly US, but some research on global & comparative contexts; some work in developing countries
Barbara Cherry Media School	Telecommunications policy and regulation	US, Canada, European Union
Aurelian Craiutu Political Science	Political theory; history of political thought	France, Eastern Europe
Cali Curley SPEA, IUPUI	Sustainability; local governance; coproduction; energy policy; collaboration; policy adoption	Florida
Jon Eldon Lecturer, SPEA jeldon@iu.edu	Agriculture; natural resource management; environmental science	West Africa, South Pacific, American Midwest
Anthony Fargo Media School	Media law; First Amendment; press freedom; emerging media & the law; cybersecurity; media ethics	US, Europe, Latin America
James Farmer Recreation, Park, & Tourism Studies	Sustainable behavior (agriculture and land use)	Midwest, Great Lakes, Central Appalachia
Burney Fischer SPEA	Urban forestry and urban ecology; natural resource management	US
Robert Fischman Maurer School of Law	Public land law; conservation policy; endangered species recovery	US
Filomena Garcia Economics	Networks; environmental economics; antitrust and regulation	European Union
Robert Goldstone Psychological & Brain Sciences	Collective behavior; decision making; group psychology
Jeffrey Hart Political Science	International politics and political economy	North America, Latin America, Western Europe, some Asia
Timothy Hellwig Political Science	Political economy and behavior	Europe with secondary focus in Latin America
Diane Henshel SPEA	Risk assessment and modeling	US, Canada
Alex Hollingsworth SPEA	Health outcomes; air pollution; environmental regulations; substance abuse	US
Michael Kaganovich Economics	Growth theory; human capital	US, Russia, Estonia
David Konisky SPEA	American politics and public policy, with particular emphasis on environmental politics and policy, regulation, federalism, state politics, and public opinion	US
Kerry Krutilla SPEA	Environmental economics; federal regulatory evaluation; political economy; transaction cost economics; property rights theory
Alex Lichtenstein History	Labor history; civil rights; South African history	US, South Africa
Yan Long International Studies	Global health governance; international development; organizational studies; community activism; gender and sexualities	China
Volodymyr Lugovskyy Economics	International trade; experimental economics	South America, Latin America, Ukraine
Lauren MacLean Political Science	Political economy of development	Africa, American Indians in US
Michael D. McGinnis Political Science	Health policy; IAD framework; religion and policy	US for health policy, other interests more global
Sarah Mincey SPEA/IPE	Sustainable social-ecological systems; urban forests	US
Rasul A. Mowatt Recreation, Park, & Tourism Studies	Social and environmental justice	US
Steven Myers School of Informatics & Computing	Cryptography; information security	US, Worldwide
Jessica O'Reilly International Studies	Environmental anthropology; science and technology studies; Antarctica; climate change; scientific assessments; environmental policy and management; cultural theory and methods	Polar regions, New Zealand
Armando Razo Political Science	Political economy of development; network analysis; comparative politics; modern political economy; computational linguistics; computational social science	Latin America
Kenneth Richards SPEA	Environmental and natural resource policy; trisectoral sustainability cooperation	North America, Europe, Asia
Micol Seigel American Studies	Policing; prisons; state theory	US, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, the Americas
M. Nazif Shahrani Anthropology, CEUS, & NELC	Cultural ecology; anthropology of religion and politics	Central and Southwestern Asia
Lea Shaver McKinney Law School, IUPUI	Intellectual property; socioeconomic rights	Global, especially US & developing countries
Abdulkader Sinno Political Science & NELC	Civil war; conflict; Muslim minorities in West; Islamist parties in Muslim countries	Middle East, Afghanistan, Western Europe
Regina Smyth Political Science	Comparative politics; regime transition	Post-communist states, EAR states
Philip B. Stafford IIDC & Anthropology	Global aging; disability; neighborhood as commons	US
Jessica Steinberg International Studies	Natural resources; local institutions; conflict	Africa
Gustavo Torrens Economics	Political economy; economic development; international economics	Latin America
Charles Trzcinka Kelley School of Business	Financial economics	Financial markets around the world
James Walker Economics	Experimental methods related to examining behavior in social dilemma settings
Bradley Wheeler Office of the Vice President for IT and CIO; Professor, Kelley School ODT	Economics of higher education—particularly IT services; Digital commerce; Cybersecurity	US
Susan Williams Maurer School of Law	Constitutional law; feminist theory; constitutional design	West Africa (Liberia), Southeast Asia (Burma), MENA (Libya)
William Kindred Winecoff Political Science	International political economy; international relations; comparative politics; network analysis and complex systems	N/A
Nikos Zirogiannis SPEA	Applied econometrics; environmental and resource economics	US

Current External Affiliates

Name	General Research Interests	Geographical Area
Susan Ariel Aaronson Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University	Digital trade and digital rights; regulation of malware
Carolina Aguerre Social Sciences, Universidad de San Andrés	Internet policy & governance; ICT for Development; media & cultural industries in the digital age; organizational theory	Latin America & the Caribbean; the developing world more generally
Barbara Allen Political Science, Carleton College	Political communication; political theory—Ostrom, Tocqueville; commons governance; self-government	North America, UK, Continental Europe
J. Marty Anderies School of Human Evolution & Social Change, and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University	Institutions and the dynamics of coupled infrastructure systems	Nepal, India, Thailand, Colombia, Southwest US
Krister Andersson Political Science, University of Colorado-Boulder	Governance of natural resources	Latin America
Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold Law School, and Urban & Public Affairs, University of Louisville	Environment; land use; water governance (law and policy)	US
Gwen Arnold Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis	Hydraulic fracturing; federalism; wetlands; street-level bureaucracy; institutional analysis; civic engagement; local government decision making; policy diffusion; policy	Mid-Atlantic US generally; some work in California
Analía Aspis Law, University of Buenos Aires	Internet governance and cybersecurity	Worldwide; mostly US, EU, & Latin American focus
Joseph B. Bahati Forestry, Biodiversity & Tourism, Makerere University	Community resilience to climate and land use	Eastern Africa-Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia
Krista Bailey Sustainability Studies, IU South Bend	Systemic approaches to designing social and constructed landscapes that support healthy and sustainable behavior	US
Mansee Bal Bhargava Institute of Architecture, Nirma University Ahmedabad	Water bodies management; habitat design; urban design-planning-management; microeconomics	India
Elizabeth Baldwin School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona	Energy and water policy; public management; institutional analysis	US, Sub-Saharan Africa
Simanti Banerjee Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Experimental economics; behavioral economics; game theory; social networks	US, India
Johannes Bauer Media & Information, Michigan State University	Digital economy; Internet economics; cybersecurity; Internet governance; governance of network industries; digital innovation; media & information economics; inequality	International, with particular interests in North America & Europe and strong interests in other regions
Esther Blanco Public Finance, University of Innsbruck	Environmental economics
Peter Boettke Economics, George Mason University	Market process theory; comparative political economy; history of economic thought and methodology; economic development; economic methodology; Austrian economics; political economy; informal institutions	US, Russia, Canada
Jacob Bower-Bir Political Science, MIT	Institutional analysis and evolution; moral philosophy; political and economic behavior; political psychology; experimental methodology	US, West Africa
Sandra Braman Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts, Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University	Macro-level effects of the use of informational meta-technologies and their policy implications; the co-construction of law, technology, and the state	In-depth focus on the US
Juan-Camilo Cardenas Economics, Universidad de Los Andes	Cooperation; behavioral and experimental economics	Latin America
Madeline Carr School of Law & Politics, Cardiff University	Internet governance & global cyber security; the problem of attribution in IR; cyber norms; IoT; cyber power	Global but with a focus on the US, UK, Australia, China
Federica Carugati Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University	Ancient Greek law; political theory; ancient history
Liv Coleman Political Science & International Studies, University of Tampa	Japanese politics; global governance; global Internet governance; cybersecurity policy; gender politics	East Asia, particularly Japan
Michael Cox Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College	Commons governance	Southwest US, Dominican Republic
Shane Day School of Public Administration, University of New Mexico	Environmental policy; federalism; indigenous groups	North America, Europe, Latin America
Daniel A. DeCaro Urban & Public Affairs, Psych & Brain Sciences, University of Louisville	Cooperation; participation; social-ecological systems	Developing nations; US watersheds
Simon DeDeo Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University	Social cognition; mathematics of social interaction; behavioral grammars; origins of political order
David Delaney University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	National security; cybersecurity; law and public policy; leadership	Primarily US
Michael Drescher School of Planning, University of Waterloo	Social-ecological systems; sustainability; biodiversity; natural resources; vegetation dynamics; animal behavior	Ontario, Canada; South Africa, Bolivia, France
Benoît Dupont School of Criminology, Université de Montréal	Cybercrime; social organization of hacking; coevolution of technology and crime; cybersecurity	Canada, France, Australia, UK
Chase Edwards Law, University of Louisiana-Lafayette	Economics of privacy; expectations of privacy; IoT; probable cause to obtain data from devices; public reaction to corporate cooperation with law enforcement; trade-offs between privacy & convenience; consumer valuation of privacy	Iraq, Afghanistan, UK, Australia, Louisiana, US Gulf Coast
Tom Evans School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona	Water and food security governance; agricultural decision making	Kenya, Zambia, US
Alex Feerst Center for Internet & Society, Stanford Law School	Law, in particular, privacy, intellectual property, regulation of online speech, telecommunications; data ethics	US
Shannon Ford Department of Social Sciences, Curtin University	Soft war; propaganda; cyber espionage; political violence; jus ad vim; covert action	Asia-Pacific (esp. Australia, China, Singapore, Koreas, & Japan)
Konrad Hagedorn Resource Economics and WINS, Humboldt University	Institutional and resource economics; agrarian institutions	EU, post-socialist countries, India, Ethiopia, China, Central Asia
F. Andrew Hanssen Department of Economics, Clemson University	Institutions; law and economics; political economy; industrial organization	US, ancient Greece
Tanya Heikkila School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado-Denver	Environmental policy and governance	Western US, Mekong basin, India, Brazil
Robert Holahan Environmental Studies & Political Science, State University of New York-Binghamton	Institutional economics; environmental policy; energy policy	US
Jennifer Holt Film & Media Studies, University of California-SB	Broadly in arena of media policies in the digital era; operation & regulation of digital media infrastructure including broadband providers & data centers; Internet governance; issues of privacy & data security	US; some Western Europe markets
Hong Xue School of Law, Beijing Normal University	Cyber law; e-commerce law; international trade law; intellectual property law	Asia & the Pacific region, primarily
Marco Janssen School of Sustainability, Arizona State University	Governance and robustness of SESs	India, Thailand, Nepal, Colombia, China
Eric Jardine Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	Cybersecurity; measurement; information security; uses & abuses of the dark web; trust & online engagement	US, West, Global
Christos Kalantaridis Entrepreneurship and Innovation, De Montfort University	University-industry knowledge transfer; open innovation; entrepreneurship and innovation in spatial and regional contexts	UK, Greece, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Estonia
Argyro Karanasiou Law, Media & Communications School, Bournemouth University	AI; IoT; wearable tech; distributed architectures & mesh networks; online copyright & innovative technologies; health-related databases; big data; algorithmic accountability/automated decision making behavioural economics & predicitve analytics; online dispute resolution	Europe (EU legislation), UK, Southeastern Europe, US (only for First Amendment issues)
Prakash Kashwan Political Science, University of Connecticut	Institutional analysis; international environmental policy; research methods	South Asia
Derek Kauneckis Environmental Science, Ohio University	Environmental policy; policy analysis
In Kim Public Policy & Public Management, Pusan National University	Institutional arrangements and performance of public service delivery	South Korea
Kwanbo Kim Public Administration, The Catholic University of Korea	New institutionalism (IAD framework); transaction cost approach; game theory	South Korea
Tom Koontz School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington-Tacoma	Public policy; collaborative governance; natural resource policy	US; Germany
Joanna Kulesza International Law, University of Lodz	Internet governance; human rights; international law; state responsibility; international liability; due diligence	Europe (incl. Central & Eastern Europe), partially Asia & US
Jesper Larsson Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Agrarian history	Scandinavia
Jun Liu Media, Cognition, & Communication, University of Copenhagen	Information & communication technologies; political communication; Internet governance; political sociology; comparative studies	China, Asia, comparative perspective
Maria Claudia Lopez Community Sustainability, Michigan State University	Common-pool resource management in developing countries; experimental economics; institutions	Latin America, Africa
Michael Madison School of Law, University of Pittsburgh	Knowledge commons; intellectual property law
Jessica Magaldi Legal Studies & Taxation, Lubin School of Business, Pace University	Law of emerging technologies; employment-related legal issues; finance & tax law	US
Anas Malik Political Science, Xavier University	Sustainability; Islam; constitutional political economy	Pakistan, Middle East, South Asia
Selvakumar Manickam National Advanced IPv6 Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia	Networks & cybersecurity	Southeast Asia
Renée Marlin-Bennett Political Science, Johns Hopkins University	International theory; international political sociology of information; global political economy of information; embodiment; pragmatic epistemology	Limited expertise on Israel & the Middle East
David M. McEvoy Economics, Appalachian State University	Environmental economics; international environmental agreements; public economics; experimental economics; behavioral economics	Global
Bernardo Mueller Economics, University of Brasilia	Development; institutions; political economy; complexity	Brazil
Tun Myint Political Science & Environmental Studies, Carleton College	Local-global dynamics of social ecological interactions; institutional diversity; democracy; sustainability	Southeast Asia, Western Europe (Rhine River), US (Mississippi River)
Harini Nagendra School of Development, AzimPremji University	Forests; land change; urban ecology; remote sensing	India, Nepal
Doron Narotzk Accounting, University of Akron	Taxation; Internet & law; cybersecurity; policy; corporate law	US
Josephine Sandler Nelson Villanova Law School and Business School	Business ethics; corporate compliance; cybersecurity breaches	USA and countries that have borrowed our securities disclosure model
Tomas Nonnenmacher Economics, Allegheny College	Institutional and organizational economics	North America
Brian Nussbaum College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity (CEHC), University at Albany (SUNY)	State and local risk assessment and mitigation	US
Nizan Geslevich Packin Law, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York	Financial regulation; information & privacy law; cybersecurity; ﬁnancial technology; business law; consumer protection	Primarily US, Israel & the EU
Amy Poteete Political Science, Concordia University	Political development; natural resources; responsiveness	Africa
Mark Raymond International & Area Studies, University of Oklahoma	Internet governance; cybersecurity; international relations; international law; global governance; social constructivism; institutions	N/A
Carla L. Reyes College of Law, Michigan State University	Intersection of business, commercial law, & technology, with particular interest in blockchain technology	US
Adena R. Rissman Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Conservation policy design and implementation; ecological impacts of conservation policy; social and legal adaptation to environmental change	US, some international work
Tatyana Ruseva Government & Justice Studies, Appalachian State University	Natural resource governance; land conservation; private forest land management	Midwest and Southern US; Eastern Europe
Filippo Sabetti Political Science, McGill University	Institutional diversity and collective action	Western Europe and North America
Edella Schlager School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona	Common-pool resources; federalism; water	US
Bruce Schneier Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University	Security guru	Worldwide
Michael Schoon School of Sustainability, Arizona State University	Governance; institutions; biodiversity conservation	Southwest US, Southern Africa
John Selby Accounting & Corporate Governance, Macquarie University	Spillover effects of the Internet on business; Internet governance; Cybersecurity; domain name system; New Institutional Economics theory; interdisciplinary analyses combining the disciplines of law, politics, economics, sociology, history, & technology	Australia, Asia-Pacific
Arthur L. Sherwood Management/IDEA Institute, Western Washington University	Entrepreneurship; co-operative enterprises; governance
Ganesh P. Shivakoti Natural Resources Management, Asian Institute of Technology	Common-pool resource institutions in irrigation and forestry	South and Southeast Asia
David Skarbek Political Science, Brown University	Political economy of institutions & institutional change with focus on collective action, norms, & ethnic conflict	US
Mark Sproule-Jones Political Science, McMaster University	Institutional analysis	Great Lakes of North America
Ramesh Subramanian Computer Information Systems, Quinnipiac University & Yale Law School	Information security, privacy, public policy; data analytics; history of technology	US, India
Geoffrey Swenson International Politics, City, University of London	International relations; law; state-society relations; informal governance; cybersecurity	South Asia, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan, Timor-Leste
Andreas Thiel International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, Witzenhausen Universität Kassel	Institutional change in governance of human-nature relations at higher scales	Europe (Germany and Southern EU), East Africa
Hannibal Travis Law, Florida International University	Copyright; software; patent reform; cybersecurity; cryptocurrencies; human rights; First Amendment	US; some EU directives; Middle East re human rights law
Catherine Tucker Anthropology & Latin American Studies Center, University of Florida-Gainesville	Community-based natural resource management; watershed management; coffee value chains; land use/land cover change; political ecology; adaptation to climate change; globalization	Latin America, global systems
Anabelle Ulate School of Economics, University of Costa Rica	Economic development; regional development	Costa Rica, Central America
Josephine van Zeben Worcester College, Law Faculty, University of Oxford	Multilevel governance; environment; local government	EU, US, China
Ioana Vasiu Faculty of Law, Babeş-Bolyai University	Cybercrime nature, prevention, & litigation; ICT law; e-Business law	US & EU
Nathan D. Vogt Institute of Research Development, University of Valley Paraiba	Smallholder farm communities; land-use/cover change; social-ecological systems (SES); local SES adaptation to climate and global changes; smallholder rural-urban networks	Amazon, East Africa, Southern Africa
Rolf Hans Weber Faculty of Law, University of Zurich	Information technology law; Internet governance; data security; cyber security	Europe
Jenifer Sunrise Winter School of Communications, University of Hawaii at Manoa	Internet of things; big data; Internet governance; artificial intelligence; civil rights & liberties; international & comparative cyberspace/cybersecurity law & policy	Asia-Pacific, particularly China; US
Hong Xue School of Law, Beijing Normal University	Cyber law; e-commerce law; international trade law; intellectual property law	Asia and the Pacific region
Alan Zarychta School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago	Politics of social services in less developed countries; public health	Latin America
Silverio Zebral Grad School of Political Management, George Washington University	Political economy; development	Latin America
Shuang Zhao Political Science and Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama-Huntsville	Environmental policy; policy process; political economy	US, China

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