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Divya Vaid

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; Class and Political Participation; Research Methods: including the application of quantitative and mixed methods.

Experience

* Associate Professor, CSSS, JNU (2023-)
* Assistant Professor, CSSS, JNU (2012-2023)
* Associate Fellow at Lokniti, CSDS (2009-11), and Visiting Associate Fellow, CSDS (2011-12)  
* Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, Department of Sociology (2007-2009)

Awards & Honours

Scientific High Level Visiting Fellowship at the Laboratoire Printemps – Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, awarded by the French Institute in India (2024)

Executive Editor, Comparative Education Studies, a journal of the Comparative Education Society of India

Principal Investigator for an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded Research Project (2011-2014)

UPE-II Project Grant from JNU (with colleagues from CSSS and CESP, JNU) (2014-19)

Grants from the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes´ (BIARI) Alumni Research Initiative (Co-applicant): 2010-11 and 2012-13

Grants during doctoral research: Nuffield Funded Studentship (Nuffield College, Oxford), Overseas Research Student Award, and a Grant from the Board of Management of the Frere Exhibition for Indian Studies, University of Oxford

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Member Research Council of the Social Mobility Network India (https://www.socialmobilitynetwork.in/)

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

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 Marginalities and Mobilities among India’s Muslims: Elusive Citizenship (Routledge) (co-edited)
  • Section Editor: 2024 Global Handbook of Inequality, eds. Surinder S Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (Springer: Cham.) (editor for the section on Dimensions and Methods),

 

Select Book Chapters:

  • 2024 (with Ankur Datta) ‘Social Mobility and Inequalities’ In: Jodhka, S.S., Rehbein, B. (eds) Global Handbook of Inequality. Springer, Cham.
  • 2024 (with Ankur Datta) ‘Vulnerabilities: Perspectives and Themes’ In: Jodhka, S.S., Rehbein, B. (eds) Global Handbook of Inequality. Springer, Cham.
  • 2023 ‘Caste and Mobility’, in The Oxford Handbook of Caste, edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet, pp. 595-608 (Oxford University Press: New Delhi).
  • 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.
  • 2010 (with A.F. Heath) ‘Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility,’ in Diversity and Change in Modern India, edited by Anthony F. Heath and Roger Jeffery. Proceedings of the British Academy 159: 129-164: Oxford University Press: Oxford.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.