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Divya Vaid

Divya Vaid
Divya Vaid
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
26, SSS-II
Off. Phone
011-26704424
Email
divyavaid@mail.jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

D.Phil. Sociology (Oxford), MSc. Sociology (Oxford)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Social class mobility; Social stratification; Work, Economy, and the Labour market; Education and Work Aspirations; Education: Access and Attainment; Gendered Inequalities; Monitoring Policy; Class and Political Participation; Research Methods, including the application of quantitative and mixed methods.

Experience

* Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Associate Professor (Since 2023)
* Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Assistant Professor (2012-2023)
* Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi - Associate Fellow at Lokniti: Programme for Comparative Democracy (2009-11); and Visiting Associate Fellow at CSDS (2011-12)
* Yale University, Department of Sociology, Postdoctoral Associate (2007-2009)

Awards & Honours

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International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Book: 2018 Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/uneven-odds-9780199480142?lang=en&cc=fi#

* 2023 ‘Mapping Class and Political Participation in India from 1996 till 2019’, Studies in Indian Politics, 11(2): 225–257
* 2016 Patterns of Social Mobility and the Role of Education in India, Contemporary South Asia, 24 (3): 285-312
* 2014 ‘Caste in Contemporary India: Flexibility and Persistence,’ Annual Review of Sociology, 40: 391-410 (July/August).
* 2012 ‘The Caste-Class Association: An Empirical Analysis,’ Asian Survey, 52 (2): 395-422.
* 2004 ‘Gendered Inequality in Educational Transitions’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39 (35): 3927-3938 (August 28).

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

*Book (co-edited): 2023 Marginalities and Mobilities among India’s Muslims: Elusive Citizenship (Routledge)
* 2021 ‘Ethnography and Social Mobility: A Review’, in Social Mobility in Developing Countries: Concepts, Methods, and Determinants, edited by Iversen, Vegard, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen, pp. 247-270 (Oxford University Press: London).
* 2019 (with Ankur Datta) ‘Caste in Contemporary Hindu Society: Community, Politics and Work’ in Modern Hinduism, edited by Torkel Brekke, pp. 216-243 (Oxford University Press: Oxford)
* 2017 ‘The City, Education and Social Mobility: Women’s Narratives from Delhi’, pp. 347-368 in the Second International Handbook of Urban Education, edited by Pink, W.T. and G.W. Noblit, Springer International Publishing: Switzerland.
* 2015 ‘Monitoring Education Policy in India: A Comparative Study of Chandigarh and Delhi’, in Politics of Welfare: Comparisons Across Indian States, edited by Louise Tillin, Rajeshwari Deshpande and K. K. Kailash, Oxford University Press: New Delhi.