CENTER FOR
THE STUDY OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY

Graduate Students

“Research in institutional analysis and development frames sustainability in a way that enables various issues, across different systems, to be understood using a common language.”

– Haley Paul

Barnett

Allain Barnett

Major:  Environmental Social Science
CSID Themes: Robustness of social-ecological systems, Cooperation.

Research interests: Agriculture and water quality tradeoffs; collective action, culture, and socioeconomics; cross-cultural communication; community identity; social-ecological systems.

Office:  Matthews Hall, 108B
Bozicevic

Miran Bozicevic

Major:  Anthropology

Curriculum Vitae

Research interests: Relating information flow with participative decision making in institutional arrangements.

Office:  Matthews Hall, 110 
Conley 

Shannon Conley

Major:  Political Science
Research interests:  Constitutional law, Native American studies, voting rights, ancient and modern political thought.

Office:  Matthews Hall, 108B

Gohad 

Sneha Gohad

Major:  Computing Studies
Research interests:  Web development, distributed computing

Office:  Matthews Hall, 108B

 Hasan

Zeenat Hasan

Major:  Social Science and Health

Curriculum Vitae

CSID Themes: Robustness of social-ecological systems, Path dependence.

Research Interests:  The distribution of cultural knowledge as a crucial resource, local ecological knowledge of water quality issues and climate change in Maricopa County and internationally.

OfficeSHESC, 233
 Ben Jewell

Benjamin Jewell

Major:  Anthropology
CSID Themes: Robustness of Socio-Ecological Systems, Innovation, and Cooperation.

Research Interests: Food Security, Urban Agriculture, Reciprocal Exchange, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples of North America.

Office: SHESC, 155
 Paull

Haley Paul

Major: Sustainability
CSID Themes: Robustness of social-ecological systems, Cooperation, Scale.

Research interests: Applying institutional analysis to case studies related to irrigation, fisheries, and other common-pool resources; analyzing the robustness of agriculture and food systems.

Nicholas Radtke

Major:  Computer Science

CSID Themes:  Cooperation

Research Interests:  Predicting the success/failure of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects using agent-based modeling and empirical data from FLOSS repositories such as SourceForge.

 

Nathan Rollins

Major:  Anthropology

Curriculum Vitae

CSID Themes:  Robustness of social-ecological systems, Innovation, Cooperation, Path dependence, Scale.

Research interests: Modeling institutional dynamics, and evolution in socio-ecological systems; evolution of cooperation; water and agricultural management issues in arid environments; resource management challenges in North Africa (Morocco.)

Office:  Matthews Hall, 108

Kehinde (Kenny) Salau

Major:  Applied Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences

CSID Themes: Robustness of social-ecological systems, Path dependence

Research Interests:  Analysis of predator-prey systems in social and ecological frameworks through mathematical theory and simulation.

Office:  Matthews Hall, 104

 Seema Talele

Seema Talele

Major:  Computing Studies

CSID Themes:

Research Interests:  Develop web-based experiments that involves a social dilemma where individual interests collide with the socially optimal outcome.

Office:  Matthews Hall, 104
 Zhang

Sainan Zhang

Major: Sustainability
CSID Themes: Robustness of social-ecological systems, Path dependence.

Research Interests