Faculty Profile: Tanetta E. Andersson

Tanetta E. Andersson
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Phone: (860) 297-2526	Office Location: Seabury Hall N-032
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Trinity College faculty member since 2013	View office hours for Fall 2024

Degrees:

Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ.
M.A., Case Western Reserve Univ.
B.A., Case Western Reserve Univ.

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 U.S. and international 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's 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 webinar on teaching using Wikipedia editing assignments and in member sections for Drugs and Society and the Scholarship on Teaching and Learning (SOTL). As a 2024 Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, she 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, not realizing 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 mentors several Hartford first-generation high school senior students in her classes.

curriculum vitae

Publications:

Andersson, T. “Gender.” In Investigating Social Problems, edited by A. Javier Trevino, 3rd Edition. Thousand Islands, CA: Sage Publications, 2021.
Andersson, T. “Going ‘There’ and Being ‘There’: Notes on Discreditable Identity and Stigma in Peer Suicide Loss Research.” In Negotiating the Emotional Challenges of Conducting Deeply Personal Research, edited by A. C. Nowakowski and J. E. Sumerau. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press (Taylor and Francis). 2017.
Andersson, T. “Review of Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments, by G. Perry.” International Social Science Review 89, no. 1. 2014.
Andersson, T. “‘Nobody Talks about Suicide, Except if They’re Kidding’: Disenfranchised and Re-enfranchised Grief in Peer Suicide Grievers and Their Coping Strategies.” In Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Suicide Research, edited by J. Cutcliffe, J. Santos, P. Links, J. Zaheer, H. Harder, F. Campbell, R. McCarmick, Y. Bergmans, & K. Harder, 332-341. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Hinze, S., Lin, J., & Andersson, T. “Can We Capture the Intersections? Older Black Women, Education, and Health.” Women’s Health Issues 22, no. 1 (2012): 91-98.
Andersson, T. “Gender and Suicide.” In Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Vol. 2, edited by J. O’Brien, 816-818. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009.
Musil, C., Warner, C., Stoller, E., & Andersson, T. “Women and Intergenerational Caregiving in Families: Structure, Ethnicity, and Building Family Ties.” In Successful Aging through the Life Span: Intergenerational Issues in Health, edited by M. L. Wykle, J. Whitehouse, & D. L. Morris, 143-159. New York: Springer, 2005.
Settersten, Jr R, & Andersson, T. "Moving and Still: Neighborhood Effects, Human Development, and the Life Course." In Advances in Life-Course Research: New Frontiers in Socialization, edited by R.A. Settersten, Jr. and T. Owens, 197-227. London: Elsevier Science, 2002.

Presentations:

"Beyond the Classroom: How Wikipedia can Play a Critical Role in Social Science Education." Equity and Accessibility Teaching and Learning roundtable. American Sociological Association, Montreal CA, August 11, 2024.
Substance use, Disorder, and Treatment panel session, Presider. American Sociological Association, Montreal CA, August 13, 2024.
"Teaching Beyond Binaries with Writing as a Tool of Thinking: Sociology through Film." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 5, 2024.
Teaching and Learning Symposium. Public Sociology Roundtable, Presider. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 17, 2023.
"Whose Knowledge and for What? Counter-Hegemonic Feminist Sociology and Digital Activism Through Wikipedia Editing." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting: Diasporic Womanisms and Indigenous Women's Movements of the Global South Mini Conference: Toward a Decolonial Pedagogy and Curriculum, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 30, 2023.
"Whose Knowledge? Editing Wikipedia, Epistemic Questions, and Teaching U.S. and Global Gender Sociology Courses." Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Summer Meeting: Re-Thinking Feminist Sociology in the Era of Global Pandemics, Los Angeles, CA, August 7, 2022.
"Editing Wikipedia: Sociology of Gender Students as Agents of Knowledge." Trinity College Digital Day, Hartford, CT, April 21, 2022.
"Goffman, 'Institutional Psychiatry', and Decarceration: A Critical Archival Analysis of the American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization (AAAIMH)." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting,Birmingham, AL, April 7, 2022.
"Critical Gender, Race, and Class Pedagogy." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 11, 2019.
"Thirteen (Misleading) Reasons Why: Stigma, Account-Making, and Moral Identity Work in Peers of Suicide Decedents." Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, The Roots & Branches of Interpretive Sociology, Philadelphia, PA, August 10, 2018.
"Bridges and Barriers: Assaults on Speech and Sexual Assault on Campus." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6, 2018.
"False Rape Reports and Courtroom Talk: A Research Methods and Theory Exercise." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7, 2018.
"In the Heat of the ‘Moment’: Masculinity and Sexual Consent in Male College Students." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Greenville, SC, April 1, 2017.
With Alexander Gnassi '20. "Both 'Terrible' and 'Magnificent' Lessons: A Campus Sexual Assault Course Through Sociological Perspectives." Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA, March 12, 2016.
“Behind from Top to Bottom: The Experiences of Women in the Academy.” Sociologists for Women in Society, Winter Meetings: Gender and Multi-Institutional Politics, Nashville, TN, February 8, 2014.