Prof Andersson’s scholarship ranges from comparative-historical sociology to the impact of structural violence (poverty and marginalization) on health/illness; racial, sexual, class politics and 'simultaneity' of these structures in gender-based violence; the medicalization-criminalization dichotomy of deviance in mental illness especially.

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 addressing 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, which involves student researchers. Andersson's senior theses students' research has been funded through Student-Initiated Research Grants. 

As a 2024-25 Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, Prof. Andersson develops students' sociological thinking through writing-to-learn/engage skills, integrating knowledge and research from the Writing Across the Curriculum approach with theoretical frameworks and evidence specific to the discipline of sociology. Andersson's students 'read' and write 'the world' in a dual sense--between text and context-- through critical pedagogy, emphasizing academic content and expectations paired with a focus 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 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.