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 focus on governance, we seek to expand and strengthen affiliations with scholars from a broad range of academic disciplines.
Affiliated Faculty
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 |
| Jackson Dorsey Business Economics and Public Policy | Environmental economics; energy economics; and industrial organization | US |
| Jon Eldon SPEA | 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 SPEA | Sustainable behavior (agriculture & 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 |
| 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 | Development of political, legal, & economic institutions in pre-modern, citizen-centered governments | |
| 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) |
| Franz Gatzweiler Chinese Academy of Sciences | Behavior of complex social and ecological systems | Central and Eastern European countries, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia |
| 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 |