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Jessi Streib is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. Her research focuses on mechanisms of social class inequality, including cross-class marriages, educational outcomes, and socioeconomic mobility. Streib earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2013). She is affiliated with the Duke Population Research Institute as a Faculty Research Scholar.
Her work includes influential books such as *The Power of the Past: Understanding Cross-Class Marriages* (2015), which explores how class origins shape marital dynamics, and *The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay after College* (2023), analyzing post-graduate wage disparities. She has also written on downward mobility (*Privilege Lost*, 2020) and cultural signaling in job markets (*Class and the Cultural Styles Applicants Present to Gatekeepers*, 2021).
Streib’s research has been funded by grants such as the Institute for Humane Studies’ *Young Voices: The Political Socialization of America's Next Generation* (2024–2025) and the Spencer Foundation’s study on post-college labor market inequality (2014–2018). Her findings appear in venues like the *American Journal of Sociology* and have been featured in *The Washington Post*, *NPR*, and *The Atlantic*.
Her current research examines intersections of race, gender, and class in contemporary U.S. society, as seen in her 2025 work *Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?* She teaches courses on social stratification and qualitative research methods at Duke.
