Rate My Professor Jakob Feinig

Jakob Feinig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development within the College of Community and Public Affairs at the State University of New York at Binghamton. As a social science scholar, he focuses on the politics of money creation, particularly in historical contexts from British colonial America to the United States. Feinig earned his PhD from Binghamton University, MA from the University of Vienna in Austria, and DEUG from Marc Bloch University in France. His research demonstrates how various groups have understood money creation as a political practice, attempting to redesign monetary institutions amid public controversies. This work is underpinned by a commitment to democratizing socio-economic life and analyzing the impact of monetary politics on collective existence.

Feinig's scholarship includes the book Moral Economies of Money: Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society, published by Stanford University Press in 2022. Notable publications encompass "Money, Water, and the Job Guarantee" in Care, Climate and Debt: Transdisciplinary Problems and Possibilities (2022), "Humanization as Money: Modern Monetary Theory and the Critique of Race" in Humanity (2022), "The Pedagogy of the Job Guarantee" in Radical Teacher (2021), "Toward a Moral Economy of Money? Money as a Creature of Democracy" in Journal of Cultural Economy (2020), "Notes on Monetary Institutions in State and Class Formation Processes" in Journal of Historical Sociology (2020), "Beyond Double Movement and Re-regulation: Polanyi, the Organized Denial of Money Politics, and the Promise of Democratization" in Sociological Theory (2018), and "The Moral Economy of Money between the Gold Standard and the New Deal" in Journal of Historical Sociology (2017). He has been honored with the Dissertation Year Fellowship from Binghamton University (2014), Social Science Research Council-DPDF Fellowship (2008), Graduate Scholars' Award from Binghamton University (2006), and Fulbright Fellowship (2006). At Binghamton, Feinig teaches courses on money and debt, human rights, social justice, and migration, encouraging students to engage theoretically with institutional structures.