Nathan Gibson is the Audio-Visual Preservation Archivist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s General Library System. He holds a B.F.A. in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University. He is an affiliate of the German, Nordic, and Slavic department, is a former UW-Madison Morgridge Fellow, runs the audio preservation studio at the Mills Music Library, and is a co-Principal Investigator on the “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest” and "Nordic Folklife" projects.