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Dr. Burnell “Burney” C. Fischer, Ph.D., CF, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Public and Environmental Affairs, School of Public and Environmental Affairs; Senior Research Fellow, Affiliated Faculty, and Former Director, The Ostrom Workshop; Affiliated Faculty.

Current Researchers
- Jess Vogt, MPA/MSES(2012), Ph.D. in Environmental Science (2014) from SPEA, currently Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Studies in the College of Science and Health at DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
  - Jess’s DePaul University research website: Lab for Urban Forestry in the Anthropocene (LUFA)
- Shannon Lea Watkins, Ph.D. in Public Affairs (2015) from SPEA, currently Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco
- Sarah K. Mincey, MPA/MSES (2007), Ph.D. in Environmental Science (2012) from SPEA, currently Associate Director of the Integrated Program in the Environment (IPE) and Administrative Director of the Indiana University Research and Teaching Preserve (IURTP) at IUB
- Sarah Widney, MSES (2015) from SPEA, currently Lab Manager for the Craft Wetlands Lab at IUB
- Lynne Westphal, Ph.D., Research Social Scientist with the Northern Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service, Project Leader: People and Their Environments
Former Collaborators
- Tom Evans, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, Indiana University Bloomington
- The late Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate, Founding Co-Director of CIPEC, Founding Co-Director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
- Susan Stewart, formerly a Research Social Scientist with the Northern Research Station of the US Forest Service
- Sean Sweeney, GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist I, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University Bloomington
- Graduated SPEA/CIPEC students:
  - Rachael Bergmann (MPA/MSES ’14)
  - Lance Dye (BSES ’10)
  - Laura Garrett (MPA/MSES ’12)
  - Rachel M. Krause (PhD Public Affairs ’10)
  - Kaitlyn McClain (MPA/MSES ’14)
  - Nick Myers (MPA/MSES ’12)
  - Matt Patterson (MPA/MSES ’12)
  - Tatyana Ruseva (PhD Public Affairs ’11)
  - Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh (MPA/MSES, PhD Environmental Science ’12)
  - Mike Steinhoff (MPA/MSES ’07)
  - Jennifer Swilik (BSES ’14)
  - Rich Thurau (PhD '13)