A Florida native, Annemarie Anderson received a master’s degree in oral history from the University of Florida in 2017, the first graduate of that program. She also earned her bachelor’s degree in English and history from the University of Florida. In 2022, she earned her MFA in Documentary Expression from the University of Mississippi. She is the Southern Foodways Alliance’s oral historian and travels across the South collecting stories of people who grow, cook, eat, and serve southern food.

Areas of focus: Florida history and developing a visual documentary practice