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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 oppressions' approaches to systems of inequality, her work exposes structural patterns and social logics which serve to naturalize social problems.
Her scholarship on gender appears in Critical Sociology and Women's Health Issues journals along with several edited book chapters on deviance, stigma, and mental illness. Prof. Andersson's professional contributions to the discipline of sociology include 2020 Program Committee Chair for 83rd Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society (SSS), the largest regional sociological association, and chair of SSS Committee on Gender and Sexuality in 21-22. She is active in the American Sociological Association sections on Drugs and Society and the Sociology of Teaching and Learning (SOTL). As a 2024 Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, she continues to develop students' critical sociological thinking and writing skills. In 2023, she received an Identity, Power, Equity grant for her new course on Mental Health Politics; her other topical course on social problems is Sociology of #metoo. In 2016-2020, Andersson’s students received funding to conduct research through Trinity’s Summer Research Program and her 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 still pinned to their seats, absorbed in a class discussion without realizing that class has ended. “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. Her teaching has been recognized by awards from student groups ranging from Trinity’s Men of Color Alliance (MOCA) and Trinity Greek Life’s Faculty Member of the Year.
From 2018-2022, Professor Andersson 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. She also mentors high school senior students in her classes through the Early College Program in partnership with Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy (HMTCA).
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Illness and social behavior; mental health politics
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Microsociology
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Sociology of Gender
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Global Gender Inequalities
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Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Class
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Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence
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Law and Critical Legal Studies, Social Movements, and Social Justice
SOCL-101
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Principles of Sociology
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SOCL-213
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#MeToo: The Sociology of Sexual Violence, Coercion, and Victimization
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SOCL-217
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Lights, Camera, Society!: Sociology Through Film
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SOCL-316
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Global Gender Inequalities
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SOCL-363
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The Individual and Society
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Health, Illness, and Social Behavior; Mental health politics
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Micro-sociology and interactive social order
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Social stigma, moral careers, and moral panics
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Sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
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Interlocking systems of sexism, racism, and capitalism
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Sociology of Knowledge
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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:
- "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.
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- Trinity College, Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, 2024-25, Writing as a Tool of Critical Sociological Thinking
- Trinity College Identity, Power, Equity Course Development Grant for SOCL 255 Mental Health Politics, 2024-25.
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Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow Summer Funding, "Doing Qualitative Research Online," 19th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive, University of North Carolina Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, 2022
- Trinity College Allan K. Smith Center for Writing &
Rhetoric Writing Fellow, 2021
- Trinity College Digital Scholarship Faculty Fellow & January-term course development grant, 2021
- Trinity College Center for Teaching and Learning Fellow, 2016-2017
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Excellence in Teaching Award, Honor Roll, Central Connecticut State University, 2012-2013
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Week Essay Contest, 1st Place, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, 2010
- J. Bruce Jackson, M.D., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring, Nomination, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, 2010
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Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)-South. National Student Liaison to SWS Winter Meetings in Santa Barbara, CA, 2010
- Baton Rouge Crisis Center Foundation, Dissertation Research Grant, 2009
- Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Nomination. Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, 2007
- Graduate Dean’s Instructional Excellence Award, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, 2007
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American Sociological Association (ASA) Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Fund and Case Western Reserve University College of Arts and Sciences (with Brian Gran), "Visual Sociology for Rookies," 2004
- Bridging the Gap: Service Learning and Social Justice, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Travel Award, 2000
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Doctoral Student Research Fellowship, National Institute of Aging, Case Western Reserve University, 1999-2002
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