Anna Rhodes is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University. Her research combines urban sociology, the sociology of education, and environmental sociology to investigate household residential decision-making. One area of her research investigates the dynamic relationship between residential and educational inequality, and specifically examines the intersection of families’ school and residential choices to explore the role of housing, neighborhood, and school contexts on children’s educational opportunities and outcomes. Her current projects examine how low-income families sort into communities and schools across different metropolitan areas and the social processes through which their residential and educational contexts influence children. Another vein of her work examines households' residential decisions in the wake of disasters, highlighting how climate change and disasters increase economic vulnerability and inequality among households in affected communities. Her book, Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Disaster Recovery, with Max Besbris, was recently published by the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. Rhodes has also published work in Social Problems, Social Forces, Urban Education, American Educational Research Journal, Evaluation Review, and in the edited volume “Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools.”