Neda Maghbouleh

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
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Current affiliations

  • Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity

Biography

Main Bio

Neda Maghbouleh is Associate Professor of Sociology at UTM, with appointment to the graduate department at St. George. A recent winner of the Province of Ontario’s Early Researcher Award, she is lead researcher and Principal Investigator on the RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team, funded by a major 2018-2023 SSHRC Insight grant. 

Select publications

  • Maghbouleh, Neda. 2020. “From White to What? MENA and Iranian American Non-white Reflected Race.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(4):613-631. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2019.1599130
  • Milkie, Melissa A., Neda Maghbouleh, and Ito Peng. 2020. “Stress in Refugee Settlement: Syrian Mothers’ Strains and Buffers during Early Integration in Canada.” In A National Project: Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada, edited by Leah Hamilton, Luisa Veronis, and Margaret Walton-Roberts. Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
  • Maghbouleh, Neda, Laila Omar, Melissa A. Milkie, and Ito Peng. 2019. “Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 18(2):482- 507. https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7789739
  • Maghbouleh, Neda. 2017. The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian-Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Maghbouleh, Neda. 2015. “The War at Home: Militarized and Racialized Identities in the University Critical Language Classroom.” Critical Sociology 41(7-8):1137-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920513508664
  • Maghbouleh, Neda, Clayton Childress, and Carlos Alamo-Pastrana. 2015. “’Our Table Factory, Inc.’: Learning Marx Through Role Play.” Learning and Teaching 8(2)5-28. http://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2015.080202 (Lead Article)
  • Maghbouleh, Neda. 2014. “Youth and Activism: Muslim-American Girls and Women in Social Media.” In Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures 2010-2020, Volume 6, edited by Suad Joseph. Boston, MA: Brill. 
  • Maghbouleh, Neda. 2013. “The Ta’arof Tournament: Cultural Performances of Ethno-National Identity at a Diasporic Summer Camp.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 36(5):818-837. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2011.648649
  • Maghbouleh, Neda. 2010. “‘Inherited Nostalgia’ Among Second-Generation Iranian Americans: A Case Study at a Southern California University.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 31(2):199-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256861003606382
  • Maghbouleh, Neda. 2009. “A Great Inheritance, A Special Destiny: Barack Obama’s Candidacy and the Performance of Racial History in Portland, Oregon.” New Racial Studies.