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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
  1. Center for Documentary Research and Practice
  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

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.
  1. Center for Documentary Research and Practice
  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Nagendra, Harini, July 02, 2014

Collection ID:
14-026
Date:
July 02, 2014
Scope Content:
Harini Nagendra is a professor of sustainability and coordinator of the Centre for Urban Sustainability at Azim Premji University in Bangalore India. Nagendra describes her personal background that lead her to contact Elinor Ostrom while pursing postdoctoral opportunities. She received a research position at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Populations and Environmental Change (CIPEC) focusing on human-nature interactions in Asia. Furthermore, she discusses her research in collaboration with Ostrom on Bangalore urban villages and their connections to lakes such as Lake Kaikondrahhalli. Later on Nagendra discusses Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize and her impact on future research. There is also discussion of Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom and Nagendra's connect with them. She goes onto describe their personalities and generosity, last memories, and the Ostroms' as collectors.
Place:
Bangalore, India, Lake Kaikondrahalli, India, and Nepal
  1. Center for Documentary Research and Practice
  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Tucker, Catherine, July 09, 2014

Collection ID:
14-027
Date:
July 09, 2014
Scope Content:
Catherine Tucker has a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Tucker begins her interview by recounting how she met Elinor Ostrom and her experiences with her at the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC). She goes on to discuss Ostrom as a mentor and her own teaching. Tucker then talks about her work at the Ostrom Workshop which includes her teaching with the International Forestry Research and Institutions Research Program (IFRI). The interview concludes with Tucker reflecting on Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom and how they, especially Elinor Ostrom, would want to be remembered.
Place:
Mexico
  1. Center for Documentary Research and Practice
  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014