Our postdocs and students are vital to the continued growth of the Ostrom Workshop and represent the future of the Ostrom’s legacy.
Angela Babb is a critical food geographer whose work examines the political economy of hunger and the contemporary food movement. Research projects include de/reconstructing the federal calculation of basic food needs and nutrition assistance; developing local and sustainable food procurement policies; mapping food access and emergency food networks; and identifying avenues for justice and sovereignty in regional and (inter)national food systems.
Julia Valliant is a public health researcher focusing on learning from farmers and ranchers about how agricultural incentives can support them in building farm-level biodiversity and raising more nourishing food. Present projects address how farms and ranches continue, or transition, from one generation to the next; the food movement as a farmer-led health movement; grazing management for surface water point protection; and performance payments to reward grazers and farmers for ecological outcomes in agriculture.
Laura Calloway is a Security Informatics PhD student concentrating on identifying the best practices for preserving consumer privacy for users of internet connected health and home devices. She uses a harm reduction approach to consumer privacy focused on prioritizing the most minoritized users since technological and health risks are not distributed homogeneously, but are experienced unequally based on users’ identities (as a result of their race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or any combination thereof). Her research is grounded in both Computer Security and Public Health methodologies and is centered around the question of, “when is it appropriate to use technology as part of a health intervention for people dealing with chronic or infectious diseases and how can this be done in a privacy preserving way?” Prior to IU, she earned a BA in both Sociology and English from Williams College and a MS in Public Policy and Management while a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellow at Carnegie Mellon (Heinz College).
Jaime Carini is a doctoral student in musicology (Ph.D.) and organ performance and literature (D.M.) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington. She also received a 2021–2022 Adam Smith Fellowship from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a 2021–2022 Richard M. Weaver Fellowship from Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Ms. Carini recently completed a forthcoming book chapter, titled “Artisanship, Artifact, and Aesthetic Fact,” on the political economy and artisanship of the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington Schools. She maintains research interests in cultural economics and the interrelationship between music expertise and music ownership. Jaime has presented her research on Bob Dylan’s contributions to the Great American Songbook at the international World of Bob Dylan Symposium and the sixth Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW6). As an Ostrom Fellow, Ms. Carini is working on the project, “The Uses of Artisanship, Knowledge, and Fact in the Quest to Develop a Science of Culture,” which extends her previous work on artisanship and culture in Workshop thought.
Tonya is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington with specializations in comparative politics and research methods. Her work engages with research on voting behavior, democratic erosion, electoral violence, civic engagement, competitive elections, and clientelism. More specifically, she studies how the use different elicit electoral strategies impact voting decisions in competitive elections and democratic governance in sub-Saharan Africa. Her dissertation, in particular, examines the impact of electoral violence and intimidation on African voters, suggesting that civic engagement will have a mediating impact on how violence is perceived and responded to by voters. She uses mixed methods to explain this variation in how democratic citizens react to tactics of intimidation and violence in electoral contestations by first examining cross-national variation in these key concepts using Afrobarometer survey data. In addition, she investigates the case for Senegal by examining both the tactics of intimidation used and motives of civil society organizations in a comparative study of the 2012 and 2019 Senegalese presidential elections. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Louisiana State University and is a Louisiana native.
Homa Taheri is a second-year PhD student in Economics. Her interest lies at the intersection of international trade and economic development. She works on the design of international trade agreements and their effects on different groups in the society. Homa holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, an MA in Economics from Institute for Management and Planning Studies, and an MA in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School.
Salih Yasun is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science at Indiana University-Bloomington. His primary research interests include institutional analysis, democratization, and voting behavior in the Middle East and North Africa region. Salih currently conducts an institutional analysis of local governance in Tunisia. He holds a Master's Degree in Applied Statistics from IU-Bloomington, and another Master's from the Political Science Department in Sabanci University, Turkey. He utilizes integrative methods, including regression analyses, interviews and archives. Salih is fluent in Turkish and Arabic (Fuṣḥā), and his research has appeared in Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Middle East Law and Governance, and Women's Studies International Forum. His CV can be accessed at www.syasun.com
Wesley Zebrowski is a third-year Ph.D. student in Public Affairs program at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and is also a 2021-2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His work focuses on agricultural decision-making and policy as they intersect with climate change and underserved farmer groups. Specifically, his past work has explored seed networks and forest management in Eastern Africa, while his current work explores Amish climate change adaptation in the Midwest. For his dissertation, Wes plans to explore USDA inequities and discrimination in farm aid for socially disadvantaged farmers. Before coming to IU, he earned a B.A. in Government and Environmental Policy from Colby College.
Postdocs
Angela Babb (2018-21)
Analena Bruce (2016–19)
Julia Valliant (2015–21)
Kurt Waldman (2015–18)
Ostrom Fellows
Kristina Anderson (Public Health; 2018–19)
Ricardo Bello-Gomez (SPEA; 2018–19)
Jordan Blekking (Geography; 2015–18)
Tetiana Bulakh (Anthropology; 2018–19)
Jaime Carini (Music; 2020–21)
Martin Delaroche (SPEA, Political Science; 2016–17)
Renzo de la Riva Aguero (SPEA, Political Science; 2020–21)
Anthony DeMattee (SPEA, Political Science; 2018–19)
Colleen Friedly (Anthropology; 2015–17)
Hilda Hadan (Informatics; 2020–21)
Cathryn Johnson (Political Science, 2018–19)
Yun Ju Kang (Law; 2017–18)
Min-Hyeok Kim (Political Science; 2016–17)
Aidan Klein (Political Science; 2019–20)
Michael Klein (Economics; 2016–17)
Eric Knackmuhs (Public Health; 2015–16)
Ian Zhengyan Li (SPEA; 2019-20)
Ivan Lopez Cruz (Economics; 2015–16)
Jordan Lynton (Anthropology; 2020–21)
Paulo Massoca (SPEA; 2019–20)
Emma McDonell (Anthropology; 2015–18)
Lucy Miller (Anthropology; 2017–18)
Daniel Muck (Political Science; 2020–21)
Jaeger Nelson (Economics; 2015–16)
Johabed Olvera (SPEA; 2017–18)
Dafna Rachok (Anthropology; 2020–21)
Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana (Economics; 2017–18)
Nabila Rahman (Political Science; 2015–18)
Jorge Rios-Allier (Anthropology; 2019–20)
Tanmay Sharma (Public Health; 2016–17)
Sacha Siani (Geography; 2020–21)
Connor Stangler (History; 2018–19)
Tessa Steiniche (Anthropology; 2019–20)
Christopher Upton (Anthropology; 2016–17)
Samantha von Ende (Law; 2018–19)
Zhi Wang (Applied Health Sciences; 2018–19)
Zheng Zhou (Public Health; 2019–20)
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