Dr. 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. She has provided expertise on race and ethnicity categories to organizations like 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’s research on 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.