Keith Ludden
Augusta
Oral Historian, folklorist, journalist
Keith Ludden is the founder of Oral History and Folklife Research Inc, a nonprofit dedicated to conducting and supporting oral history, collecting the stories that tell us who we are. Ludden received his Master’s degree in Intercultural and Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University, and conducted oral history and folklife fieldwork projects in Kansas, Indiana, Nebraska and Maine. Among his first projects was a series of radio programs spotlighting tradition bearers in Nebraska and Kansas.