Professor Anderson's research and teaching focus on public policy; particularly the ways that domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice and equality in the United States. She is the author of "Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955," which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards. In her forthcoming book, "Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960," Professor Anderson uncovers the long-hidden and important role of the nation's most powerful civil rights organization in the fight for the liberation of peoples of color in Africa and Asia.