He is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University,[1] where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project.
He was appointed to the Max and Heidi Berry Term Chair in the Social Sciences in 1989,[1] to the Charles and William L. Day Professorship in 1991, and then to Distinguished Professor in 2001.
He has also served as visiting professor at Swarthmore College, Princeton University, and Ecole des Etudes Hautes en Science Sociales in Paris, France.
Additionally, he was a member of the National Research Council’s Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior.
In August 2017, in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Anderson argued that Confederate monuments "really impact the psyche of black people.