Broadly speaking, Dr. Anderson’s research examines how racialized gender norms are enforced, negotiated and resisted on the individual, interpersonal and structural level. An interdisciplinary blend of queer and social psychology theory, her dissertation research work utilized quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the role of perceived gender expression – how one “does” gender – and race in exposure to and subjective interpretation of antigay discrimination. This work has shown how embodied adherence to or deviation from gender norms affects the frequency, nature, and subjective experience of discriminatory encounters among LGBTQ individuals and foregrounds the inherently gendered nature of sexual prejudice and discrimination.