Andie Tucher

Andie Tucher

Andie Tucher, a historian and journalist, directs the Communications PhD program. Her book Froth and Scum: Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium (UNC 1994) won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians. Tucher is currently working on her next book, which explores the intersections of history, memory, and storytelling in one family’s 400-year-long American experience.

Before coming to Columbia, Tucher served as a speechwriter for Clinton/Gore ’92. She was an editorial associate to Bill Moyers at Public Affairs Television, and edited his book World of Ideas II (1990). She also served as an editorial producer of the historical documentary series The Twentieth Century at ABC News and an associate editor of Columbia Journalism Review.

Tucher graduated from Princeton as a Classics major, earned her M.S. from the Columbia University School of Library Service, and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American Civilization from New York University.