J. M. Schroeder
Position title: Community Curator of Upper Midwestern Folklore
Email: jschroeder3@wisc.edu
J.M. Schroeder is a former enlisted US Marine. He earned a BA in Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington in 2006 and a PhD. in Scandinavian Studies, Folklore at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2016. He has worked as a Swedish language instructor and director of the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU in Tacoma, WA. He conducted an outreach evaluation survey for the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest before taking the role of Community Curator of Upper Midwestern Folklore. He specializes in Swedish ballad studies, folk arts, surveys and evaluation work, and spending time with folk artists.