The Department of Political Science is excited and pleased  to announce that Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University-Bloomington, and an alumna of this department three times over (BA, MA, Ph.D.) has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Science “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.” Professor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel in Economics, and is the first UCLA Political Science Department Ph.D. alumn to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Professor Ostrom received a B.A. (with honors) in 1954, an M.A. in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1965. 

 Presently Professor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington. In addition, she is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University.

 Professor Ostrom’s homepage at Indiana University is:

http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/ostrom.html