Divya Vaid is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has an MSc and a DPhil from Oxford, UK. Her research interests include the study of social mobility and inequalities, educational attainment, class and political participation, with an interest in the application of quantitative and mixed methods. Her work has appeared in the Annual Review of Sociology, Contemporary South Asia, Asian Survey and the Economic and Political Weekly among others. She is the author of Uneven Odds: Social Mobility in Contemporary India, OUP, 2018, and has co-edited a volume on Marginalities and Mobilities Among India’s Muslims, Routledge, 2023.