ELIZABETH BALDWIN (Vitae) is a second-year PhD student in the Public Affairs program at IU’s School of Public & Environmental Affairs. Her primary research interest is in energy policy, and her current work focuses on the way that decentralized regulatory decision-making processes affects the electricity resource mix across US states. She is a research assistant to two faculty research teams that are affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop, contributing to ongoing research on renewable and distributed generation in developing countries and water policy implementation in Kenya. Elizabeth earned a JD from Indiana University Bloomington in 2011. baldwine@indiana.edu
JACOB BOWER-BIR (Vitae) investigates the evolution of moral norms and the influence those norms have on various social policies. His current research explores the relationship between peoples’ understanding of justice and economic desert and their tolerance for economic inequality. Jacob is conducting additional studies on group decision making, strategic network formation, spatial voting models, and heuristics. His early work focused on the introduction of market forces to traditionally public services, with a special concentration on school choice in American public education. He is broadly interested in the distribution of influence and benefits in collective-action scenarios. jbowerbi@indiana.edu
CHUNG-YUAN (CY) CHIU (Vitae) is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science from Taiwan. Over the past few years, he has been working on several policy issues such as water rights politics, irrigation management, environmental policy, as well as local governance, and had extensive field experience working in both Taiwan and Mainland China. He approached these issues through examining institutional constellations of governance, where regime factors, government structures, local politics dynamics, and informal social rules interact with one another. He is also interested in exploring the political implications of governance consequences based on the institutional analysis framework, with an emphasis on democratic transition. Parts of his research results have been published in Comparative Politics and other Taiwanese journals. chiuch@indiana.edu
RYAN T. CONWAY (Vitae) is a third-year student in the Political Science PhD program. Exploring the subfields of public policy and political science research methods, his diverse, substantive interests have included international forestry and greenhouse-gas policy, humanitarian aid coordination, and community healthcare systems. The underlying theme to all this is his interest in how negotiated issue-framing can support the emergence of cooperative behavior in otherwise competitive environments. He is currently a member of the Managing the Health Commons research team. Personal research interests include emergency management, zoning policy for sustainable urban design, community economies as commons, and the relationship between public health and the built environment. While pursuing a BA in Philosophy and a BS in Political Science, his earlier research focused on the politics of African mineral economies and the relationship between interstate conflict and democratic transitions. rtconway@indiana.edu
GRAHAM EPSTEIN (Vitae) is a student in the joint PhD program in Public Policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science. His primary research interest is rule compliance in the commons and the interaction of multiple models of human behavior and contextual variables in complex social-ecological systems. He is interested in applying a multiple method approach to develop an improved understanding of behavior and outcomes in the commons. Graham holds a BSc in Ecology from the University of Waterloo and an MSc in International Rural Planning and Development from the University of Guelph. gepstein@indiana.edu
SEAN FEDORKO (Vitae) is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science. Prior to his studies at IU, Sean worked for the Mercyhurst Center for Applied Politics (http://polisci.mercyhurst.edu/mcap) where he developed training programs for undergraduate research associates and contributed to survey development and analysis. Sean is primarily concerned with the policy process. Specifically, he is interested in the power disparity of actors contributing to environmental policy and in the obstacles to effective policy solutions to environmental issues. Sean earned BAs in both Philosophy and Political Science from Mercyhurst University. sfedorko@indiana.edu
CATHRYN E. JOHNSON (Vitae) is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science. Prior to beginning her studies at IU, Cathryn worked for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs where she supported programs to strengthen political participation and democratic institutions in West Africa. Cathryn’s research interests are rooted in the democratization process. Specifically, she is interested in how institutions influence citizen engagement in democratic processes and shape the outcomes of policies to improve citizen welfare. Cathryn earned an MSc in Development Studies from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies and a BA in International Studies and French from Whitworth University. catejohn@indiana.edu
URSULA KREITMAIR (Vitae) is in the joint PhD program in Public Policy of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science. Appreciating the complexity of human behavior, she aims to enrich her initial neoclassical approach to environmental problems with institutional analysis. Furthermore she takes a keen interest in environmental equity. Ursula holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc in Environmental Policy, Planning and Regulation from the London School of Economics. She has worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH Environmental Policy Programme in Beijing. ukreitma@indiana.edu
CARRIE LAWRENCE (Vitae), a Bloomington native, is a first-year PhD candidate in the School of Health Physical Education and Recreation. Her research interests focuses on the impact of health policy on health disparities and health outcomes. Specifically, the processes of informal networks or community-level groups can work together with their target health issues at a community level in order to decrease health disparities, increase health outcomes and access to care as well as influence policy. Currently, she is working with a research group on a project entitled, Managing the Health Commons. Carrie has a BS and MS in Applied Health Science with concentration in Human Development and Family Studies. She is also a Certified Family Life Educator. calawren@indiana.edu
PAUL MCCORD (Vitae) is a student in the Department of Geography’s PhD program. He is primarily interested in human-environment questions within arid and semi-arid lands, particularly water access issues and the role that institutions play in allocating water to users. Similarly, Paul is interested in the development of models and the use of geospatial technologies, such as geographic information systems and remote sensing, in order to address water access questions within the context of climate change. Paul holds his MSc in Geography from Michigan State University where he developed models to help prevent the spread of sleeping sickness within Kenya. He also holds a BA in Economics from Michigan State University. pamccord@indiana.edu
SANCHAYAN NATH (Vitae) is a doctoral scholar in the Joint PhD Program in Public Policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and the Department of Political Science. His doctoral research examines the relationship between leadership and outcomes in collective action scenarios around water bodies in urban centers in India. Prior to joining the doctoral program, he has worked for more than five years across the academic, nonprofit and corporate sectors. He holds a graduate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and an undergraduate degree in engineering from RVCE Bangalore in India. He has also completed a post graduate diploma in environmental law from the National Law School of India University Bangalore in India. sancnath@indiana.edu
NAVEED PAYDAR (Vitae) is a doctoral student in the Joint PhD program in Public Policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and the Department of Political Science at IU. His research interests include multilevel governance, economic development, and social entrepreneurship. He has an ongoing theoretical interest in the Institutional Analysis and Development framework and the Social-Ecological Systems framework. His work examines how inequality (gender, old age, property ownership, etc.) affects decision-making processes and material outcomes of institutions governing common-pool resources. npaydar@indiana.edu
SELESTE SANCHEZ (Vitae) is a first-year PhD student in Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests include globalization, trade networks, community development, and Latin America. Prior to starting her graduate program, Seleste worked in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. She worked with villagers on several development projects and conducted ethnographic research. While obtaining her undergraduate degree from Weber State University, Seleste focused on traditional market spaces and fruit trade networks in Mexico. sesanche@indiana.edu
LUKE SHIMEK (Vitae) is a student in the Public Policy Joint PhD program at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Department of Political Science. He received his BS in Mathematics, Economics, and International Relations from Wheaton College (IL), and his MA in Economics from Indiana University-Bloomington. He has also worked as a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His field of interest is institutions and governance with a particular emphasis on understanding corruption in bureaucracies, both through empirical study and the use of network formation games. lshimek@indiana.edu
JAMPEL DELL'ANGELO is enrolled in a double PhD program in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development at Sapienza Università di Roma-CIRPS and in Environmental Sciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-ICTA. He holds a MS in Environment and Development at the London School of Economics, a Master II in Energy and Environment Management at Università di Roma La Sapienza, a Graduate Certificate in International Health at Curtin University of Technology, and a BS in Environmental Economics at Università degli Studi di Siena. In his PhD research, Jampel applies, and modifies, the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework to two different case studies: (1) watersheds preservation and resettlement of Tibetan nomads in Qinghai’s rangelands and (2) the decision-making processes of geothermal electric energy power production development and its effects on the water basin of Mount Amiata in central Italy. jdellang@indiana.edu
Julia Duany, juliaduany@ymail.com
Alphonso Manns, alphmanns@aol.com
Amos Sawyer, asawyer@indiana.edu
