Māra Vīksna — Dr. philol. h. c., folklorist, researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore, and Art, University of Latvia; from 1969, works as the manager of collections of folklore materials at the Archives of Latvian Folklore. She is author of about 300 scientific and popular science publications, co-author of the collective monographs Latvian Folkloristics in the Interwar Period (in Latvian, 2014, and in English, 2017) and Collections of the University of Latvia at the Archives of Latvian Folklore (2019). Main research interests: history of folklore studies, cultural heritage, regional folklore.