Nan Dirk de Graaf

Nan Dirk de Graaf (born 1958) is professorial fellow in sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. De Graaf is a specialist in social mobility and educational attainment.

De Graaf received his PhD from Utrecht University (1988) and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Education and Human Development in Berlin (1988-1989). He was a research fellow at the KNAW (1990-1995) and professor in Sociology at Nijmegen University (2001-2007).

• Political Choice Matters: Explaining the strength of class and religious cleavages in cross-national perspective. Oxford University Press, 2013. (with Geoffrey Evans)