Neda Maghbouleh is a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Born in New York City and raised in Portland, Oregon, she earned her PhD in Sociology in 2012 from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Neda’s research on the lived experiences of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities in North America has been discussed in popular venues like NPR, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR’s Code Switch podcast. She has provided expertise on race and ethnicity categories to organizations like the U.S. Census Bureau, the American Medical Association, and the Spencer Foundation.
Her 2017 book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race, published by Stanford University Press, received honors from the Association of American Publishers and the American Sociological Association (ASA). She and two collaborators, Ariela Schachter and Rene Flores, co-won ASA’s 2022 Oliver Cromwell Cox prize for their article “Ancestry, Color, or Culture: How Whites Racially Classify Others in the U.S.,” published in American Journal of Sociology. Neda is also Principal Investigator of RISE Team: Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity, which follows 50 Syrian newcomer families over the first 5 years of their resettlement in Toronto.
Neda is elected to ASA Council and sat on the program committees for the 2022 and 2023 Annual Meetings. She holds an elected national position at the Canadian Sociological Association, is an editorial board member of American Behavioral Scientist and Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, and is appointed to the Middle East Studies Association's Committee on Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination.
Neda’s research on the lived experiences of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities in North America has been discussed in popular venues like NPR, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR’s Code Switch podcast. She has provided expertise on race and ethnicity categories to organizations like the U.S. Census Bureau, the American Medical Association, and the Spencer Foundation.
Her 2017 book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race, published by Stanford University Press, received honors from the Association of American Publishers and the American Sociological Association (ASA). She and two collaborators, Ariela Schachter and Rene Flores, co-won ASA’s 2022 Oliver Cromwell Cox prize for their article “Ancestry, Color, or Culture: How Whites Racially Classify Others in the U.S.,” published in American Journal of Sociology. Neda is also Principal Investigator of RISE Team: Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity, which follows 50 Syrian newcomer families over the first 5 years of their resettlement in Toronto.
Neda is elected to ASA Council and sat on the program committees for the 2022 and 2023 Annual Meetings. She holds an elected national position at the Canadian Sociological Association, is an editorial board member of American Behavioral Scientist and Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, and is appointed to the Middle East Studies Association's Committee on Anti-Racism and Anti-Discrimination.