Lauren Kientz Anderson is a professor in the Africana Studies and History departments, focusing on the topics of US and African American history. Some of her course topics include Paideia I and II, Survey of U.S. History Since 1877, and African-American History.

Professor Anderson's research interests include Black Women's Intellectual History and Black Internationalism. She is currently working on a book entitled "A Spirit of Cooperation and Conflict: Black Women and the Politics of Protest and Accommodation in the Interwar Era." In addition, she has one article published and another under review:

• “A Nauseating Sentiment, a Magical Device, or a Real Insight? Interracialism at Fisk University in 1930” Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, special edition on The African American Experience in Higher Education Before the Civil Rights Era, Roger L. Geiger, Christian Anderson, and Marybeth Gasman editors, vol 29. August 2012.
• “Byrd Affair: The Byrd Affair: Black Economist Mabel Byrd and the New Deal Administration, 1933” American Studies, under consideration.