Guha Shankar (Ph.D., UT-Austin), is Senior Folklife Specialist in the American Folklife Center,  Library of Congress, where he serves as project coordinator of Ancestral Voices, a collaborative curatorial initiative with indigenous communities and co-directs the national Civil Rights History Project, among other responsibilities. He has decades of practical experience in media production, cultural heritage management, and event programming. Shankar also provides research and reference assistance to Library patrons, teaches documentary field methods in university and community settings, and writes and produces content for a range of publications . His research and publication interests include the African American freedom struggle, repatriation of indigenous cultural heritage, diasporic community formations in the Caribbean, ethnographic media, visual representation, and performance studies.