Filmmakers

James P. Leary is emeritus professor of folklore and Scandinavian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he co-founded the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. His field and archival research since the 1970s on the folklore of diverse rural and working-class peoples in America's Upper Midwest has contributed to numerous folklife festivals, museum exhibits, radio programs, films, sound recordings, online archives, essays, and books.