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Jessica Su

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Carolina Population Center

Topics of expertise
  • Children & Adolescents
  • Economic Inequality
  • Fertility, Reproduction & Sexual Health
  • Marriage, Cohabitation, & Committed Relationships
  • Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood

Email: jessica.su@unc.edu
Website: https://www.cpc.unc.edu/people/fellows/jessica-su/
Twitter/X: @jesshoustonsu

Dr. Jessica Houston Su is a sociologist who studies American family life and inequality. As a family demographer, she uses a sociological lens and quantitative analytic techniques to examine how social patterns of family formation create and reproduce inequality. Her research contributes to the sociological literature in families, health, inequality, work, and demography.

Last Updated: 9/9/25