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Hart, Jeffrey, June 19, 2014

Collection ID:
14-014
Date:
June 19, 2014
Scope Content:
Jeffrey Hart is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Hart opens the interview by discussing his initial meeting with Elinor Ostrom, he was interviewing to teach at Indiana University and Elinor Ostrom was about to become the chair of the Department of Political Science. He is also connected to the Vincent Ostrom through a family connection on his wife's side, Joan Hart. He goes onto discuss the way Elinor Ostrom interacted with her graduate students and the influence she had. Hart discusses more of his own research on international political economy and the way that did or did not intertwine with the Ostrom Workshop. This discussion eventually leads to conversation of the future of political science. The interview ends with Hart recalling the Ostrom legacy including the intellectual community the Ostrom Workshop fostered.
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Hess, Charlotte, July 15, 2014

Collection ID:
14-031
Date:
July 15, 2014
Scope Content:
Charlotte Hess was the Director of the Library and Information at the Ostrom Workshop from 1989 to 2008. Hess begins by recounting the way the library started and the way it developed, including what it was like to create the library catalog for the Workshop. Hess also talks about connecting the Ostroms' work and the International Association of Common Property. Later, she discusses editing Vincent Ostrom's book The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerability of Democracies: A Response to Tocqueville's Challenge (1997) and Vincent Ostrom himself.
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Lykens, Kristine, June 17, 2014

Collection ID:
14-009
Date:
June 17, 2014
Scope Content:
Kristine Lykens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Systems at the University of North Texas. As an undergraduate student at Indiana University she was a student of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. She discusses her experiences as a student, working with the Ostroms on several projects, and as a teaching intern for the Vincent Ostrom. She also discusses her personal life, her reconnection with Elinor, and her aspirations for her future research that was inspired by her studies under the Ostroms. Kristine Lykens finished her interview discussing the origins of the Ostrom Workshop as well as the Workshop on the Ostrom Workshop (WOW).
Place:
St. Louis, Missouri, West Africa -- Ghana, and West Africa -- Nigeria
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

MacKinnon, Anne, June 19, 2014

Collection ID:
14-018
Date:
June 19, 2014
Scope Content:
Anne MacKinnon is an Independent Environmental Services Professional. MacKinnon briefly met the Ostroms when she went to a Workshop on the Workshop 3 conference. After this, she applied and became a visiting scholar fall semester of 2005. She discusses her time at the Ostrom Workshop and how she got her Ph.D. MacKinnon explains the Ostrom Workshop community, the Workshop itself and Elinor Ostrom as a teacher.
Place:
Berlin, Germany and Wyoming
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

McGinnis, Michael, June 16, 2014

Collection ID:
14-004
Date:
June 16, 2014
Scope Content:
Michael McGinnis is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University. McGinnis begins by discussing his interview with the Ostroms for an assistant professor position. He then discusses working with the Ostroms and Political Theory and Policy Analysis within the Ostrom Workshop. McGinnis reflects on his collaboration with Vincent Ostrom while teaching together and Elinor Ostrom through research. The interview closes with McGinnis recounting going to the Nobel Prize ceremony with Elinor Ostrom and working with Elinor Ostrom after the Nobel.
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth, June 20, 2014

Collection ID:
14-013
Date:
June 20, 2014
Scope Content:
In this interview Meinzen-Dick discusses her relationship with Elinor (Lin) Ostrom and how they met, through the International Food Policy Research Institute and the International Association for Study of the Commons (IASC). She goes on to discuss collaboration through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CIGAR), avoiding hagiography, the IASC conferences, the Ostrom Workshop, and Elinor Ostrom's influence as a role model for women faculty.
Place:
England, India, and Philippines
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Pradhan, Prachanda, June 25, 2014

Collection ID:
14-025
Date:
June 25, 2014
Scope Content:
Dr. Prachanda Pradhan is a leading scholar who has been promoting values and benefits of farmer managed irrigation system in Nepal and other developing countries. Pradhan begins the interview by discussing how he met Elinor Ostrom, her visit to Nepal and their roles in the Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems Promotion Trust. He further discusses his working relationship and personal relationship with Elinor Ostrom while collaboratively writing Improving Irrigation in Asia. Also mentioned is how Pradhan learned from Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom through the Ostrom Workshop and other methods.
Place:
Nepal
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  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
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014

Walker, James, June 11, 2014

Collection ID:
14-006
Date:
June 11, 2014
Scope Content:
James Walker is a Professor of Economics at Indiana University. Walker first worked with Elinor Ostrom on a National Science Foundation proposal with Roy Gardner which is discussed in detail. After years of collaboration with the Ostroms, Walker became closer to them which led to him going with Elinor Ostrom to the Nobel Prize ceremony and he became executor of their estate. Walker also discusses the history of the Ostrom Workshop and the way it evolved over the years.
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  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014