Tanetta Andersson’s scholarship focuses on the social determinants and politics of gender-based violence, mental illness, and the medicalization-criminalization dichotomy of deviance. Drawing on interdisciplinary and simultaniety of systems of inequality approaches, her work exposes structural patterns and social logics which frequently naturalize and depoliticize social problems. 

Her work on gender inequalities appears in Critical Sociology (2023) and Women's Health Issues journals, along with several edited book chapters on deviance, stigma, and sociality of mental illness. Prof. Andersson professionally contributes to the discipline of sociology as 2020 Program Committee Chair for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society (SSS). She is active in the American Sociological Association (ASA), including as an invited panelist for a 2024 ASA member recorded webinar on WikiEdu: Using Wikipedia in the Classroom and Building a More Informed Public, Drugs and Society and the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning (SOTL) sections. She is 2024 Faculty Excellence Teacher Scholar funding award recipient for her archival investigation of global gender politics, colonial feminism, and international aid/funding, which will involve student researcher assistance. As a 2024 Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, Prof. Andersson continues to develop students' critical sociological thinking and writing skills. Andersson’s senior theses students' research has been funded through Student-Initiated Research Grants.

For Andersson, the most successful days in the classroom are when students are so absorbed in a discussion or activity, they don't realize that class is over. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn,” best captures her teaching philosophy. She has built her pedagogical approach on teaching experience in research university, community college, and liberal arts classrooms.

Andersson emphasizes justice-focused pedagogy in her teaching and mentoring. From 2018-2022, she served as faculty mentor for ten Trinity students from Chicago who received The Posse Foundation four-year scholarship (national merit-based leadership award) including a Fulbright award recipient. Through the Early College Program in partnership with Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy (HMTCA), she instructs and mentors several Hartford first-generation high school senior students in her classes.