Manali Desai

Manali Desai
Title	Reader in Sociology
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Website	https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/dr-manali-desai

Manali Desai is a Reader in Sociology and a Fellow at Newnham College. She was the Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge from 2020 until 2024, and is believed the first woman of color to lead a department at the University of Cambridge.^[1]