Derek Piotr is a folklorist, researcher and performer whose work focuses primarily on the human voice. His work covers practices including fieldwork, vocal performance, preservation and autoethnography; and is primarily concerned with tenderness, fragility, beauty and brutality. His work preserving and archiving traditional music has taken him everywhere from Utah to Iceland and has been supported by The Traditional Song Forum, The Journal of Folklore and Education, Folkwise, The Oral History Association, NTS, WFMU and NPR.

Email him at derek ‹AT› fieldwork-archive ‹DOT› com if you’d like to submit material to the Archive, or are interested in his talks.

Claudio A. Urbina is a multimedia artist and the primary website manager for the Archive. He designs the interface and updates every facet of this website. He also assists in transcribing and translating songs and researching their origins, particularly for entries in languages other than English. He has contributed to the Archive dozens of recordings from Nicaragua where he is currently based.

Email him at claudioalexanderurbina ‹AT› gmail ‹DOT› com if you’d like to submit a correction to the website.

Rowan Glass is a multimedia anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, and filmmaker. As a field agent for the Archive, his collecting work focuses on the entanglements of expressive culture, traditional knowledge, local identity, and ecological change among Latin American folk groups. His contributions to the Archive include recordings, writings, and photos from his trips to Colombia and Peru.

Email him at rowan.ff.glass ‹AT› gmail ‹DOT› com if you have any questions that pertain to his field of research, or follow his Instagram page.