Nicholas Booker

Nick Booker (he/him) is the Archivist for the Folklore Archives at the Center for Folklore Studies and a staff researcher for the Ohio Humanities Project. He received his Ph.D. in musicology and ethnomusicology from The Ohio State University with an interdisciplinary specialization in folklore studies. He also holds degrees in music performance and music education from the University of Denver and the University of Northern Colorado and has taught and performed in classical, jazz, folk, and singer-songwriter contexts. His research interests include postnational and transnational musical identities, tradition, heritage, commodification, and globalization in the context of North American, British, Irish, Celtic, and Gaelic musical communities. He is focused on interactions between folk and traditional music communities in the Great Lakes region of North America and Cornwall in southwest Britain, and music from those communities has become central to his performances with his music group All Those Who Wander.