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

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

Merino, Leticia, June 20, 2014

Collection ID:
14-021
Date:
June 20, 2014
Scope Content:
Leticia Merino is a researcher with a Doctorate of Anthropology specializing in agrarian studies. Merino opens the interview by discussing her personal background and how her background in forestry led her to Elinor Ostrom's book Governing the Commons . Merino met Ostrom in Mexico through Gustavo Gordillo, a mutual colleague. Merino was asked to go through the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) program at the Ostrom Workshop, which she did, and became more involved after taking the course. Merino goes onto discuss collaborating with Ostrom through IFRI and the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC). She reflects on her friendship with Ostrom through a discussion of Ostrom's visit to a climate change conference in Mexico. The interview closes with a discussion on the 2012 Planet Under Pressure Conference in London where Ostrom was a keynote speaker.
  1. Center for Documentary Research and Practice
  2. Coming Together: An Oral History of the Ostroms and their Scholarly Impact on Problem Solving, 2014