Faculty Profile: Tanetta E. Andersson

Tanetta E. Andersson
Principal 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 Summer 2026

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:

"Process, Not Product: Writing-to-Learn in Sociology Classes." Analytical Writing as a Tool of Critical Sociological Thinking." In Trinity College Center for Teaching and Learning CTL Fellows. College Archives. Trinity College Digital Repository.
"WikiEdu: Using Wikipedia in the Classroom and Building a More Informed Public (with Helaine Blumenthal, Wiki Education; Sarah Hernandez, and Tracy Perkins). American Sociological Association, virtual webinar. September 12, 2024.
"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.
"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.
“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.
"Beauty, Culture, Freedom: Western Norms and Women's Bodies." Symposium for Trinity College's Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Workshop. Hartford, CT. 2014.
"Hormones, Horses, and the Menopause Industry." Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August, 2004.