About me
Nathan Gibson is the Audio-Visual Preservation Archivist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Libraries. 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 also a musician, a community radio DJ, a lecturer in the Mead Witter School of Music, an affiliate of the German, Nordic, and Slavic+ department, a Morgride Fellow (building equitable, mutually-beneficial campus-community partnerships), a Principal Investigator on the multi-million dollar Nordic Folklife grant, and manages the audio preservation studio in Mills Music Library. He has authored book chapters on folklore archives and community engagement as well as a book on Starday Records (The Starday Story: The House That Country Music Built), winner of the 2012 Belmont Book Award and an ARSC Certificate of Merit for Best Research in Record Labels.