Divya is a Visiting Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). She was an Associate Fellow at Lokniti: CSDS, 2007-2009. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE) in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Divya completed her D.Phil. in Sociology from the University of Oxford.

Divya is currently working on a two-year Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded project on the impact of educational attainment on social mobility chances in two Indian cities.

Divya’s postdoctoral work (with Richard Breen) focused on analysing trends in educational inequalities by caste, class and gender in India over birth-cohorts. Her doctoral dissertation explored the patterns and trends of intergenerational class mobility of women and men in India, with an emphasis on both own occupational mobility and mobility through marriage. This research in particular highlighted the barriers to mobility faced by different social groups in a rapidly industrialising society. Her dissertation also explored the relationship between class and caste, and the role that caste plays in mediating the effects of class reproduction.

Divya is a founding member of the Academic Network for Development and Inequality Research (www.andir-south.org), and is a member of the Editorial Committee of the e-journal Rethinking Development and Inequality (www.rdi.andir-south.org).

Research Interests:

Social stratification and social change; social mobility and inequality; educational inequalities; gender inequality; social research methods, particularly quantitative methods; sociology of developing societies.

Selected Publications:

	Forthcoming. ‘The Caste-Class Association: An Empirical Analysis,’ Asian Survey
	2010. with Anthony Heath ‘Unequal Opportunities: Class, Caste and Social Mobility,’ in Diversity and Change in Modern India, edited by A.F. Heath and R. Jeffery. Proceedings of the British Academy 159: 129-164: Oxford University Press.
	2009. ‘Electoral Participation amongst the Adivasi Community’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44 (39): 102-105 (September 26).
	2004. ‘Gendered Inequality in Educational Transitions’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39 (35): 3927-3938 (August 28).