Neda Maghbouleh

Neda Maghbouleh is an American sociologist, scholar, writer, author, and educator. She is the Canada Research Chair in Race, Ethnicity, Migration and Identity and an associate professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Biography Neda Maghbouleh was born in New York City, and raised in Portland, Oregon. She attended Smith College (B.A. 2004); University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A. 2008 and PhD 2012).

Her book The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (2017; Stanford University Press) looked at historical and legal evidence, as well as the sociological structures of how Iranian Americans have moved between the categorization of white and "not white" in race. It is about the people of all MENA communities, but it specifically centers around Iranians. and has written for CBC Radio, Newsweek, NPR's Code Switch, Salon.com, Vice, and Vox Media. In 2021–2022, she was honored as a Wall Scholar by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

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