anderson has been a visiting fellow at distinguished institutions for research projects beginning with british academy grants to study giovanni morelli in italy and germany in 1982. in 1996 anderson was invited to the j. paul getty museum on a fellowship, to write about the early connoisseurship of italian painting. she has been several times a visiting professor at the villa i tatti, harvard centre for renaissance studies, and at the centre for advanced studies in the history of art, national gallery of art washington, and was the inaugural visiting professor at inha, institut national d'histoire de l'art, paris, 2003.