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.
Aidan Klein is a third-year student in Political Science. His research concerns federalism, political parties and inter-regional elite networks under autocracy, particularly how these networks help to inform the typically fuzzy concept of ‘federalism’ and its empirical effects, as well as how these center-periphery relations impact fiscal decision-making. Aidan is currently working to create an original dataset of network relations between governors and other regional elites in the Russian Federation, with an eye towards uncovering how the Russian federal network has evolved over time, particularly how these evolving network relationships affect subnational governance and regional strategies vis a vis the federal center. He graduated from the University of Florida in 2016.
Zhengyan Li is a PhD candidate in O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. His research explores the dynamics among regulators, markets, and civil society in the formation and implementation of environmental policies. His research areas include information disclosure and voluntary regulation, environmental justice, environmental attitudes and political behaviors, and bureaucratic decision. Before coming to Indiana University, Zhengyan earned a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Agricultural Economics from Renmin University of China.
Paulo Massoca is a PhD candidate in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. As a forest engineer holding a masters in Tropical Forests Science, one of his research interests relates to the ecological factors driving second-growth forest dynamics and restoration, as well as their role in conserving and provisioning ecosystem services. In his doctorate, he expanded the scope of his academic training and research area to investigate drivers of land-use and land-cover changes. In that regard, he has drawn on comparative institutional analysis to examine the interaction between environmental policies and context-specific realities. He is particularly interested in understanding how social actors in municipalities characterized by distinct historical, biophysical, socialeconomic, and political aspects mediate anti-deforestation laws in the Brazilian Amazon.
Jorge L. Rios-Allier is a third-year student in the PhD program in Anthropology. His research interests include cultural heritage management, economic value of archaeology, cultural bureaucracy issues, environmental and cultural anthropology in Cultural Heritage Management: Frameworks, Analysis, and Perspectives around the contemporary world. Jorge is particularly interested in the performance of national and subnational governments in different contexts of enforcing cultural heritage management. Also, his research is interested in the diversity of institutional frameworks and organizational capacities about heritage management and governance. Jorge holds a bachelor’s degree in Archaeology from Universidad Veracruzana of Mexico. He also earned a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) and ABD PhD in Management and Innovation of Institutions from Instituto de Estudios Universitarios (IEU) of Mexico. In addition to courses, certifications and diplomas, he has more than twelve years of work experience within the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH), as well as private consultant for federal government entities such as the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (CONANP) and nongovernmental organizations.
Tessa Steiniche is a PhD student in Biological Anthropology and member of the Primate Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory. She conducts her research in Kibale National Park, Uganda, examining how land use impacts the occurrence of anthropogenic chemical pollutants, and the ecological and evolutionary implications of a changing chemical landscape in wild primate populations.
Zheng Zhou is a second-year doctoral student of Environmental Health in the School of Public Health. His research centers around quantitative risk assessment in environmental health. Zheng seeks to incorporate advanced statistical methods, for example Bayesian statistics, into the current framework of dose-response assessment, exposure assessment and risk characterization for a more robust probabilistic risk estimation. His research interests extend to the development, implementation and evaluation of risk management strategies from the perspectives of benefit-cost analysis and policy evaluation. Zheng has been actively engaged in works including the Bayesian Benchmark Dose Modeling System (BBMD) and a risk assessment project on dietary arsenic exposure which is funded by IU President’s International Research Award. He holds a B.A. in Economics from China Pharmaceutical University and a Master of Public Health (MPH) in School of Public Health from Indiana University.
Postdocs
Analena Bruce (2016–19)
Julia Valliant (2015–19)
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)
Martin Delaroche (SPEA, Political Science; 2016–17)
Anthony DeMattee (SPEA, Political Science; 2018-19)
Colleen Friedly (Anthropology; 2015–17)
Cathryn Johnson (Political Science, 2018-19)
Yun Ju Kang (Law; 2017–18)
Min-Hyeok Kim (Political Science; 2016–17)
Michael Klein (Economics; 2016–17)
Eric Knackmuhs (Public Health; 2015–16)
Ivan Lopez Cruz (Economics; 2015–16)
Emma McDonell (Anthropology; 2015–18)
Lucy Miller (Anthropology; 2017–18)
Jaeger Nelson (Economics; 2015–16)
Johabed Olvera (SPEA; 2017–18)
Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana (Economics; 2017–18)
Nabila Rahman (Political Science; 2015–18)
Tanmay Sharma (Public Health; 2016–17)
Connor Stangler (History; 2018-19)
Christopher Upton (Anthropology; 2016–17)
Samantha von Ende (Law; 2018-19)
Zhi Wang (Applied Health Sciences; 2018-19)
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