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Bower-Bir, Jacob, June 17, 2014

Collection ID:
14-007
Date:
June 17, 2014
Scope Content:
Jacob Bower-Bir is an Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo. He first met Elinor Ostrom as a student where she was his mentor for five years and chair of his committee. Bower-Bir recalls how fortunate he was to work with Elinor Ostrom before and after the Nobel prize. He also discusses the Ostrom Workshop, the Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop and questions both the Ostroms were pursing answers to. The interview closes with Bower-Bir reflecting on the ways Elinor and Vincent Ostrom influenced him.
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Brondizio, Eduardo, June 20, 2014

Collection ID:
14-011
Date:
June 20, 2014
Scope Content:
Eduardo Brondizio is a professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. He met Elinor Ostrom while developing a proposal for a Center of excellence on the study of population, institutions, and environmental change (CIPEC). He discusses the way the Ostroms built teams by creating a space where common language was upheld above discipline specific language and the overarching idea of research around problems, not disciplines. He goes on to describe how he began working at the Ostrom Workshop and what he does there now. Personal and last memories of Elinor Ostrom are also shared.
Place:
France
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Bruns, Bryan, June 21, 2014

Collection ID:
14-023
Date:
June 21, 2014
Scope Content:
Bryan Bruns is an Independent Consultant Sociologist. Bruns was exposed to the work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom through mutual colleagues, conferences, and their writing. In 2009 Bruns became a Visiting Scholar at the Ostrom Workshop. He discusses what it was like to be a part of the Ostrom Workshop and the way Elinor Ostrom taught. Later he discusses his own work, Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop, and the Nobel Prize.
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Castle, Emily, July 15, 2014

Collection ID:
14-028
Date:
July 15, 2014
Scope Content:
Emily Castle is the Assistant Director and Librarian at the Ostrom Workshop. She first met Elinor Ostrom at a staff meeting and Elinor was a supervisor of Castle. Castle describes the Ostrom Workshop Library and her typical day as a Librarian. She later discusses preparing and planning the Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop conference. In time she discusses the physical space at the Ostrom Workshop and the community. Castle finishes her interview discussing Elinor Ostrom as a Supervisor, the Nobel Prize, and the Ostrom Workshop without the Ostroms.
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Cole, Daniel, June 03, 2014

Collection ID:
14-002
Date:
June 03, 2014
Scope Content:
Daniel Cole is a professor of Law and Public and Environment Health at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University. The interview begins with Cole explaining how he first met Elinor Ostrom at the Ostrom Workshop and became more familiar with her through a cooperative forestry group and conferences which eventually led to Cole joining the Workshop Advisory Council. He speaks of Elinor Ostrom as a teacher, personal and professional experiences with the Ostroms, and team building in the Ostrom Workshop. Cole tells of the personal conversations he had with Elinor Ostrom in the hospital and how humorous and warm she was. He discusses what he think Ostrom's favorite time of the week was, the Workshop colloquium. The discussion ends with Cole talking about the book he and Elinor Ostrom wrote titled "Property in Land and Other Resources".
Place:
Indianapolis (Ind.)
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DeCaro, Daniel, June 20, 2014

Collection ID:
14-016
Date:
June 20, 2014
Scope Content:
Daniel DeCaro is an Assistant Professor winthin the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville. He first met Elinor and Vincent Ostrom when he applied to the Ostrom Workshop for a visiting scholar position, which he started in August 2010. With a background in psychology, DeCaro has a unique perspective in the Ostrom Workshop and the classes he was enrolled in. DeCaro was a visiting scholar for three years which he reflects on by sharing his interactions with Elinor Ostrom and the project he has been working on which has been presented at the Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop. DeCaro closes the interview by discussing challenges to interdisciplinary research.
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England, Julie, July 23, 2014

Collection ID:
14-030
Date:
July 23, 2014
Scope Content:
Julie England is an adjunct instructor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. England discusses her work on databases that began with the common-pool resources (CPR) database and evolved with new projects in the Ostrom Workshop. She also discusses the technological changes in the Ostrom Workshop, the creation of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations and Environmental Change, and the Workshop on the Workshop Conference. The interview then discusses the Ostroms on a personal level including Manitoulin Island and the Ostrom Workshop after the Ostroms.
Place:
Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada
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Evans, Tom, July 23, 2014

Collection ID:
14-032
Date:
July 23, 2014
Scope Content:
Tom Evans is a professor at the University of Arizona in the School of Geography and Development. Evans was hired by Elinor Ostrom and Emilio Moran in 1998 as a post-doctoral scholar at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC). During his post-doc he was a co-principle investigator with Elinor Ostrom, working on a biocomplexity Nation Science Foundation grant. Later, Evans became co-director of CIPEC and co-director of the Ostrom Workshop which he discusses at length. He also discusses some of the core research that was going on at the Ostrom Workshop such as the social-ecological system (SES) framework. Evans closes the interview by discussing the Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop Conference and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Fischer, Burnell, June 18, 2014

Collection ID:
14-008
Date:
June 18, 2014
Scope Content:
Burnell Fischer is the Clinical Professor Emeritus in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Fischer discusses his time as the State Forester of Indiana. Fischer wanted more collaboration with a greater variety of stakeholders and he discusses how he made that work. While he was working at the State Forester of Indiana Elinor Ostrom contacted him to come down and speak to her and her graduate students. During this time a collaborative was formed between Indiana University, Purdue University, The Nature Conservancy, and Professor Dan Cole of IUPUI (now Indiana University Bloomington). Fischer then began working at Indiana University where he assisted Elinor Ostrom in teaching. His position moved from work at the Ostrom Workshop to his position as the undergraduate program director at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Fischer recalls his time at the Nobel ceremony and why he was there. The interview concludes discussing the Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW) and the Ostrom Workshops future.
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Frischmann, Brett, June 20, 2014

Collection ID:
14-0202
Date:
June 20, 2014
Scope Content:
Brett Frischmann is a law professor at Villanova University. Frischmann met Elinor Ostrom in Chicago where she gave a guest lecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He reflects how Elinor Ostrom influenced his research and her strengths as a mentor. He then discusses how Ostrom's work with the commons and methodologies will be looked at in the future. As an affiliate faculty member of the Ostrom Workshop, Frischmann is able to discuss his vision for the Ostrom Workshop going forward.
Place:
Chicago Illinois
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