Neda Maghbouleh
Associate Professor of Sociology +
Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity
University of Toronto
Note: I am on leave from University of Toronto until July 1, 2023 and will be prioritizing email related to research and fellowship responsibilities. Thank you.
As a sociologist and Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity, I study the racialization of Iranian, Syrian and other MENA newcomers in the U.S. and Canada. My co-authors, research trainees and I use a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to discover the shifting, relational status of this population. We do so in order to better understand how migration, borders, war, sanctions, and surveillance influence racial identity.
In July 2020, I was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and graduate faculty at the University of Toronto St. George. I am now also courtesy appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and sit on the editorial boards of American Behavioral Scientist, Contemporary Sociology, and Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration.
In 2018, I won the Province of Ontario's Early Researcher Award and secured a major SSHRC Insight Grant as Principal Investigator and lead researcher of the RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team, based at the University of Toronto. In 2017, I published my first book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press).
I was born in the U.S. and now live in Canada with my spouse, Clayton Childress (also a sociologist!), and our 7 year old daughter. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I am in residence as a Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at UBC Vancouver.
As a sociologist and Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity, I study the racialization of Iranian, Syrian and other MENA newcomers in the U.S. and Canada. My co-authors, research trainees and I use a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to discover the shifting, relational status of this population. We do so in order to better understand how migration, borders, war, sanctions, and surveillance influence racial identity.
In July 2020, I was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and graduate faculty at the University of Toronto St. George. I am now also courtesy appointed to the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and sit on the editorial boards of American Behavioral Scientist, Contemporary Sociology, and Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration.
In 2018, I won the Province of Ontario's Early Researcher Award and secured a major SSHRC Insight Grant as Principal Investigator and lead researcher of the RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team, based at the University of Toronto. In 2017, I published my first book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press).
I was born in the U.S. and now live in Canada with my spouse, Clayton Childress (also a sociologist!), and our 7 year old daughter. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I am in residence as a Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study at UBC Vancouver.
"Fighting Islamophobia through Arts, Advocacy, and Analysis" in Philadelphia, 2017
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Weekly RISE Team meetings in Toronto, 2019
"Congratulations" speaker, Canadian Citizenship Ceremony, 2019
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