Douglas A. Boyd
Encyclopedia
Douglas A. Boyd is an oral historian, folklorist and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
at the University of Kentucky
. He graduated from Denison University
with a B.A. in History and graduated from Indiana University
with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Folklore. He is known for his work regarding oral history and digital technologies including his work on the OHMS system (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer). Recently served as executive producer on the award-winning documentary Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery and is active in the Oral History Association, Society for American Archivists, and the American Folklore Society. Formerly, Boyd managed the digital program for the University of Alabama
Libraries, directed the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and served as the senior archivist for the folklife and oral history collections at the Kentucky Historical Society
. He is also author of Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community which was published by University Press of Kentucky and was featured on C-Span's Book TV. He also regularly appears on the radio show Saving Stories.
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky actively collects oral history interviews concentrating on 20th and 21st century Kentucky history, and maintains a collection of over 8,000 interviews made up of over 100 projects. The Center's emphasis has been on political,...
at the University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
. He graduated from Denison University
Denison University
Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital...
with a B.A. in History and graduated from Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Folklore. He is known for his work regarding oral history and digital technologies including his work on the OHMS system (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer). Recently served as executive producer on the award-winning documentary Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery and is active in the Oral History Association, Society for American Archivists, and the American Folklore Society. Formerly, Boyd managed the digital program for the University of Alabama
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....
Libraries, directed the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and served as the senior archivist for the folklife and oral history collections at the Kentucky Historical Society
Kentucky Historical Society
The Kentucky Historical Society , established in 1836, is committed to helping people understand, cherish and share Kentucky's history. The KHS history campus, located in historic downtown Frankfort, Kentucky, includes the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, the Old State Capitol and the...
. He is also author of Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community which was published by University Press of Kentucky and was featured on C-Span's Book TV. He also regularly appears on the radio show Saving Stories.
Oral History and Digital Technology
Doug Boyd is a recognized national leader regarding oral history, preservation, archives and digital technologies Boyd served as a keynote speaker for the Oral History Association's annual meeting in 2011. Recently Boyd led the team that envisioned, designed and implemented the open source OHMS system that synchronizes text with audio and video online. He also recently launched and open-source, online oral history collection management database system called SPOKEdb. Additionally, he has produced short informational videos on YouTube regarding common digital recorders utilized by oral historians.Recent Scholarship
- Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community, University Press of KentuckyUniversity Press of KentuckyThe University Press of Kentucky is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 1949 the press was established as a separate academic agency...
, July 2011 - "Achieving the Promise of Oral History in a Digital Age," in The Oxford Handbook to Oral History, edited by Don RitchieDonald A. RitchieDonald A. Ritchie is the Historian of the United States Senate.He graduated from the City College of New York and received a Master's Degree and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1969–1971.He was responsible for editing the closed hearing...
, Oxford University Press, October 2010 - Co-General Editor; Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series University Press of KentuckyUniversity Press of KentuckyThe University Press of Kentucky is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 1949 the press was established as a separate academic agency...
- Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers by Angene and Jack Wilson, February 2011
- Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky by Tracy K’Meyer and Catherine Fosl, May 2009
- This is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors by Arwen Donohue and Rebecca Howell, May 2009
- Co-Editor, Producer; The Stars of Ballymenone: Stories, Songs and Instrumental Music from the North of Ireland. Co-Authored Compact Disc accompanying the book by Henry GlassieHenry GlassieHenry H. Glassie III is a folklorist and emeritus College Professor of Folklore at Indiana University Bloomington. With specializations in folk art, folklife, vernacular architecture and material culture, Glassie has written nearly twenty books on folklore of the areas of Ireland, Turkey,...
. Indiana University Press, March 2006.