Working with her husband and collaborator, George Spindler, she primarily studied the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin and helped revolutionize the field of educational anthropology.
[1] The couple met while George was preparing to teach high school in Park Falls, Wisconsin, where Louise taught German.
[1] Louise's health issues forced the couple to move to California in 1948, where her husband taught at UCLA.
[3] The couple developed a collaborative field research technique that allowed them to co-teach and co-publish a number of works.
Though they taught classes together, she never wanted to attain a full professorship at Stanford, saying that her lecturer position gave her "freedom" in academia.