Rate My Professor Nancy Neiman

Nancy Neiman is Professor of Politics at Scripps College, where she has taught since 1993, initially as Assistant Professor of Politics/International Relations and Economics from 1993 to 2000, Associate Professor of Politics from 2001 to 2010, and Professor of Politics since 2011. She held the Mary Wig Johnson Professor of Teaching endowed chair from 2011 to 2019 and currently serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for Fall 2025 and Fall 2026. Neiman earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Economics, and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. Additional appointments include faculty at Claremont Graduate University from 2002 to 2023 and faculty in the Scripps College Summer Academy from 2003 to 2014. She also serves as Faculty Athletics Representative.

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.