Mohammad Moeini Feizabadi
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst — Dissertation: Distribution of Surplus, Technological Change and Economic Growth
- M.A. in Economic Planning and Development, University of Tehran, Iran (1991–1993) — Thesis: Douglass C. North and the New Institutional Economics
- B.A. in Economics, University of Tehran, Iran (1986–1990)
Biography
Mohammad R. Moeini-Feizabadi has taught continuously at Habib University since August 2017, most recently (2024–2025) teaching Principles of Macroeconomics, a Senior Year Seminar on Social Capital, Trust and Civic Engagement, Islam and Socialism, Philosophy of Marx, and Money, Banking and Finance. Before Habib, he held visiting faculty appointments across several US institutions, including Central Connecticut State University (2009–2011), Bard College at Simon’s Rock (2011–2012), Bennington College (2015–2016), Siena College (2016–2017), and Skidmore College (2007–2009).
He has been extensively involved in Habib’s admissions process as a Student Panel Interviewer across multiple years (2018–2021), and has supervised numerous BSc theses at Habib. His research examines the political economy of Islamic branding and institutional economics.
Selected Publications
- Co-authored with Habib alumna Anum Imran, “Sacred and Profane: The Political Economy of Halal Brands of Junaid Jamshed,” Iran Academia: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, No. 7, Spring 2021.
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