Dr. Anderson arrived at the University of Houston-Downtown in the fall of 2002. She teaches courses in prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination, the psychology of gender, psychology and the law, and research methods. Dr. Anderson completed her graduate work at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1998. She is one of the distinguished faculty at the Center for Critical Race Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Dr. Anderson is a research psychologist who has studied and taught courses in research methods and the social psychology of gender and prejudice for nearly twenty years. Her first book, Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice (Cambridge, 2010) is an examination of the psychological research on prejudice and bigotry. Her second book, Modern Misogyny: Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era (Oxford, 2015), investigates gender discrimination and sexism. In addition, she has published several related empirical research studies utilizing a range of experimental and qualitative research methods.

Teaching Experience:

Dr. Anderson began teaching Research Methods in Psychology at San José State University in 1998. In 1996, she began teaching Psychology of Women at the University of California, Santa Cruz and taught the course at De Anza College (1997) and Antioch College (2000) as well. Dr. Anderson has taught Social Psychology since 1997 at San José State University and taught it at Antioch College (1999) as well. She developed the Psychology of Prejudice course at UH-Downtown in 2007.

Academic Scholarship/Research/Creative Endeavors:

Robnett, R. D., Anderson, K. J., & Hunter, L. E. (2012). Predicting feminist identity: Associations between gender-traditional attitudes, feminist stereotyping, and ethnicity. Sex Roles, 67, 143-157.

Anderson, K. J. (2012). Is feminism good for women? In P. K. Lundberg-Love, K. L. Nadal, & M. A. Paludi (Eds.) Women and mental disorders (Vol. 1, pp. 1-15). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.

Anderson, K. J., & Kanner, M. (2011). Inventing a gay agenda: Students’ perceptions of lesbian and gay professors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 1538-1564.

Anderson, K. J. (2010). Students' stereotypes of professors: An exploration of the double violations of ethnicity and gender. Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 13, 459-472.

Anderson, K. J., Kanner, M., & Elsayegh, N. (2009). Are feminists man haters? Feminists’ and nonfeminists’ attitudes toward men. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 33, 216-224.Anderson, K. J. (2007). Discrimination. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.) Encyclopedia of social psychology (pp. 253). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Anderson, K. J., & Accomando, C. (2002). “Real” boys? The construction of maleness and the erasure of privilege in the new boys literature. Feminism & Psychology, 12, 491-516.

Anderson, K. J., & Leaper, C. (1998). A meta-analysis of women’s and men’s interruptions in conversations: Who, what, where, when, and how. Sex Roles, 39, 225-252.