About
Mary Anne Andrei is a President’s Professor in Media Studies at the University of Tulsa, Executive Producer of the Switchyard Podcast, and Multimedia Editor of Switchyard magazine. Honors for her work include a James Beard Award, three Heartland Emmy Awards, two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, and three Eric Sevareid Awards.
As a senior producer at Nebraska Public Media, she wrote and produced a PBS Digital 360° video series about the Platte Basin Watershed, a short film about the history and current state of conservation of the American bison, and podcasts about skateboarding in the Midwest and about the Farm Bill, co-sponsored by Harvest Public Media and FERN.
Her photographs have appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian, Harper’s, Huffington Post, In These Times, Maclean’s, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, OnEarth, and the Washington Post.
Her book, Nature’s Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America’s Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, was published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2020.
Awards and Honors
James Beard Award for Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication for Switchyard, 2024.
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, Podcast, Radio | Small Market, Nebraska Public Media, for “Center of Gravity,” 2022.
Eric Sevareid Award, Producer, Team Multimedia Storytelling – News, Large Media Organizations: Nebraska Public Media Radio, for “Center of Gravity,” 2022.
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, Multimedia, Small Market Television, Nebraska Public Media, for “Watershed,” 2020.
Eric Sevareid First Place Award, Producer, Team Multimedia Storytelling – News, Large Media Organizations: Nebraska Public Media Radio, for “Watershed,” 2020.
Heartland Emmy Award, Producer, Short Format Program – Entertainment for “Under the Milky Way,” 2019.
Heartland Emmy Award, Producer, Short Format Program – Informational for “Return of the American Bison,” 2019.
Eric Sevareid First Place Award, Producer, Team Multimedia Storytelling – News, Large Media Organizations: Nebraska Public Media Radio, “On the Table,” 2019.
Heartland Emmy Award, Story Producer, Environment-Program/Feature for “Prairie Fire: Controlling Invasive Species,” a 360° video documentary short, 2018.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- M.S., University of Nebraska
- B.S., University of Montana
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Multimedia storytelling with a focus on the environment, food, and the American West.