Nazli Kibria Ph.D.

Nazli Kibria, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Boston University. She has written extensively on issues related to families, disability, economic inequality, immigration and race. Her many publications include: “Deserving Immigrants and Good Advocate Mothers: Immigrant Mothers’ Negotiations of Special Education Systems for Children with Disabilities” (2021 Social Problems) and “#FamiliesBelongTogether: Facts and Fictions of Race and Family in U.S. Immigration Policy” (2019 Sociological Forum). Her op-eds and commentaries have appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Cognoscenti-WBUR, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Education, and other outlets. She is the lead researcher in a project on global siblings and inequalities that looks at adult sibling relationships in different parts of the world.