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.
Jaime Carini is a doctoral student in musicology (Ph.D.) and organ performance & literature (D.M.) at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington. She is also a 2021 Don Lavoie Fellow and will be a 2021–2022 Adam Smith Fellow, both with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. 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. She 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 “Blurring the Lines between Creative Expression and Intellectual Property in the Songwriting Industry Five Years after Marvin Gaye estate vs. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams,” which combines musicology, governance, and new institutional economics to explore how institutions influence our notions of music expertise and music ownership.
Renzo is a Public Policy Ph.D. candidate at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science and received the O'Neill School fellowship. His work engages with research on administrative capacity, non-state service provision, coproduction and collaborative governance in the fields of public administration and comparative politics. Particularly, he studies how local governance conditions in the Global South may explain performance differences between services ranging in complexity. Using the case of waste management services in Peru, he examines how municipal administrative capacity, and the involvement of organized civil society may affect these performance differences. His dissertation uses mixed methods to try to answer this overarching puzzle: Why are some local governments successful at providing simple services (e.g., collecting waste) while at the same time blatantly failing at providing complex services (e.g., disposing of waste), while other, similarly resourced municipalities can do both? Previously he was a public servant in the Peruvian public sector, a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC, and public sector manager at Deloitte Peru. He has a B.A. in Political Science from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and a Master of Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.
Hilda Hadan is a third-year Ph.D. student in Security Informatics and received the Luddy School of Informatics fellowship. Her research focus on network security, security and trust failure in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), security and privacy perceptions in the Internet of Things (IoT), and privacy and data governance in smart cities. Specifically, Hilda is working to build a holistic data governance framework based on a fundamental understanding of both the perceptions and reality of the risks and potential of various data types to a range of stakeholders. Her research on PKI, IoT, and trust together has illustrated the importance of citizen and commons governance for a trustworthy Smart City. Hilda has a Master's degree in Information Systems Technology from the George Washington University and a Bachelor’s degree in Automation from South Central University for Nationalities.
Jordan Lynton is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her dissertation research explores how legacies of colonialism and indenture, as well as PRC sponsored development in the Caribbean, complicate co-ethnic identification and immigrant incorporation within Chinese communities in Jamaica. Specifically, this project interrogates "diaspora" by examining how Chinese Jamaican, new Chinese migrants, and local organizations navigate community membership despite conflicting understandings of Chinese identity, culture, ethnicity, language, and national identity.
Daniel Muck is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science. He is interested in the political economy of development, institutional analysis, and authoritarian politics. His research focuses on the politics of property rights and economic reform in nondemocratic contexts, particularly in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Before coming to IU, Daniel earned an MSc from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Hamline University. He is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dafna Rachok is a third-year PhD student in anthropology. Her interests lie at the intersections of medical, legal, and economic anthropology. Her PhD project is about sex work in Ukraine: she is particularly interested in sex work as a part of informal economy and in the informal political practices of sex workers that are employed to resolve conflicts, secure their personal well-being, sustain their community, and organize around an illegal income-generating activity. She is also interested in the questions of the provision of public health and governance: in particular, her research enquires about the cooperation of the state with NGOs, how responsibility is negotiated and shared, and the role of international donors in providing funds for TB and HIV/AIDS. She holds a BA in Cultural Studies from National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and an MA in Anthropology from University of Alberta.
Sacha Siani is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Geography. His research focuses on understanding social-ecological systems linking in-depth local-scale field research with geospatial analysis of regional-scale landscape change. In his doctorate research, Sacha is investigating the role of satellite-based monitoring and law enforcement on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Siani holds B.A. in Environmental and Sanitary Engineering from University of Taubaté, Brazil (2012); and Master in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil.
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)
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)
Paulo Massoca (SPEA; 2019-20)
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)
Jorge Rios-Allier (Anthropology; 2019-20)
Tanmay Sharma (Public Health; 2016–17)
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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