Carrie Hodgeson has been at Rice University since January 2017. She has worked in higher education for thirteen years, beginning as an undergraduate academic advisor in the Psychology Department at the University of Houston-Main Campus. She received her B.A. in history at the University of Houston - Clear Lake in 2008. She currently works as the Department Administrator for Sociology, after having served as the Graduate Program Administrator for Psychological Sciences, as well as the Program Administrator for Cognitive Sciences.