Prof. Andersson’s scholarship ranges from analyzing U.S. liberal feminist global projects through a historical-comparative approach to the impact of structural violence (poverty and marginalization) on health/illness, especially the medicalization-criminalization dichotomy in mental illness and addiction.

Andersson's professional contributions to the discipline of sociology include 2020 Program Committee Chair for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society (SSS) and invited panelist on 2024 American Sociological Association (ASA) recorded webinar WikiEdu: Using Wikipedia in the Classroom and Building a More Informed Public. She is 2024 Faculty Excellence Teacher Scholar recipient for her critical multi-site archival analysis of liberal feminist Global projects.

As a 2024-25 Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, Prof. Andersson develops students' sociological thinking through writing-to-learn/engage skills. This approach integrates knowledge and research from the Writing Across the Curriculum approach with theoretical frameworks and evidence specific to the discipline of sociology, focusing, in particular, on power relations and oppression. From 2018-2022, she was faculty mentor for ten Trinity students from Chicago who received The Posse Foundation four-year scholarship (national merit-based leadership award) including a mentee 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.