neha

@nehalund.bsky.social

sociology phd candidate @brownsociology.bsky.social / studying immigration politics

We're reminding President Trump what it means to be born in the U.S.A. We're honored that the one and only Bruce Springsteen trusted us with use of his iconic anthem ahead of our landmark Supreme Court case, where we’re challenging President Trump’s attempt to overturn birthright citizenship.

I have been teaching at Brown University for 16 years, and have considered campus and Providence as one of the safest places I've ever lived in the U.S. Still, it's happened here. My heart goes out to those students and families as they deal with this. We owe them better.

Black Americans make up 13% of the population. But as federal government employees, Black employees are: 20% of the Dept. of Health & Human Services 24% of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs 26% of postal workers, 30% of the Dept. of Education That's the "swamp" Trump is draining.

How Trump’s War on the Federal Government Will Stifle Black Progress

For generations, government jobs helped build the Black middle class. With Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE, those days may be over.

dlvr.it

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

washingtonpost.com

Excited to share my first published article! In it, I analyze status adjustment advocacy efforts for post-war Afghan immigrants as racial projects of imperial model minority racialization, connecting literatures on racial formation, empire, and refugee migration. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Making the Case for Afghan Adjustment: The Racial Politics of Post-War Status Adjustment - Neha Lund, 2025

Scholars of race and immigration have previously situated immigration policies as racial projects. Recently, a wave of Afghan immigrants were evacuated to the U...

journals.sagepub.com