Todd Harvey is Folklife Specialist in Reference at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., as well as a musician and composer. Among other activities, he curates the Alan Lomax Collection and the Pete and Toshi Seeger Film Collection. His book, The Formative Dylan: Transmission and Stylistic Influences, 1961-1963, provides a major source of documentation in Dylan studies as well a methodological reference to further study.