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


Dr. Sarah K. Mincey, PhD. Clinical Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs ; Director, Integrated Program in the Environment
- 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)
- Stephanie Freeman-Day, MES (2019), PhD candidate in Environmental Science at O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Gretchen Luchauer, MPA-MSES (2021) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, PhD student in Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University
- Lynne Westphal, Ph.D., Research Social Scientist with People and their Environments: Social Science Supporting Natural Resource Management and Policy for USDA/USFS Northern Research Station, The Strategic Foresight Group
- Hannah Gregory, BS Environmental Science (2019) at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, currently Associate Researcher at the Environmental Resilience Institute
- Matthias Benko, undergraduate student, BA Environmental and Sustainability Studies and BA Geography (Spring 2023)
- Tom Evans, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, University of Arizona
- 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
- Shannon Lea Watkins, Ph.D. in Public Affairs (2015) from SPEA, currently Assistant Professor of Community and Behavioral Health at the the University of Iowa
- 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
- Teresa Dunn, MPA-MSES (2017) from SPEA, Assistant Director, Integrated Program in the Environment, IUB
- Hope Reamer, MPA-MSES Candidate (December 2020), O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Sarah Widney, MSES (2015) from SPEA, currently Project Manager for Thermo Fischer Scientific, Eugene OR
- Donovan Moxley, MPA-MSES (2018) from SPEA, Conservation Technician, Lavon Lake Watershed 319 Water Quality Management Plan (WQMP) Program, Collin County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), McKinney, TX.
- Charlie DeVoe, MPA (2019) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, currently Naturalist at Glacier National Park
- Lindsey Hummel, MPA-MSES (2019) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Anagha Gore, MPA-MSES (2021) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Rodoshi Sinha, MPA-MSES (2022) from O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Erin Hatch, MSES-MPA (2019) at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, formerly Urban Forester for the City of Bloomington
- Graduated SPEA/CIPEC students:
- Rachael Bergmann (MPA/MSES ’14)
- Noah Blumenthal (MSES '17)
- 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)
- John Roberts (MPA-MSES '17)
- 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)