Rate My Professor Nancy Neiman

Neiman's academic interests center on political economy, including the political economy of food and finance, pastoralist nomadic herders in Gujarat, India, and the global food sovereignty movement. Her major publications include two books: States, Banks, and Markets: Mexico’s Path to Financial Liberalization in Comparative Perspective (Westview Press, 2001) and Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures (Routledge, 2020), with a third book, Food Sovereignty, Indian Pastoralists and our Common Future, in progress. Key articles comprise “Plant Justice: A Case Study in Radical Pedagogy and Food Justice in an Alternative Education Setting” (Creative Education, Vol. 10, 2019), “Delicious Peace Coffee: Marketing Community in Uganda” (The Review of Radical Political Economy, 2012), “Petrodollars,” “Financial Liberalization,” and “Latin American Debt Crisis” (Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press, 2009), and “The Meanings of Neoliberalism” in Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas (Routledge, 2007). Neiman has garnered numerous honors, such as the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (2022-24) for research in Gujarat, India; Scripps Research Grant (2024) and Faculty Sabbatical Grant (2023); Mary Wig Johnson Research Award (2020), Teaching Award (2007), and Community Service Awards (2009, 2006, 2002); Blais Challenge Grant (2010); and Ford Foundation Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1987-89). She teaches courses like Introduction to Political Economy, The Political Economy of Food, Infrastructures of Justice, and The Power Elite.