Linda Jane Williamson (née Rast, born January 2, 1949) is an American-born academic who specialises in the lore of Scotland's travelling people.
She traveled with ethnomusicologist Peter Cooke, and folklorist Alan Bruford, to interview and record the Stewarts of Blair, Betsy Whyte of Montrose, and Jane Turriff of Mintlaw.
Her recordings of Duncan's songs and stories, in addition to her collected lore, music, and history of Scotland's Travellers from Argyllshire, Perthshire, and Fife, were deposited in the School of Scottish Studies Sound Archives, catalogued with her commentary from 1975-1993.
She worked to write verbatim from Duncan's narrations and secured publication of his stories in Edinburgh, New York, Cambridge, Oxford, London, and Milan.
Since 2007, Williamson has worked on myth and starlore in the ancient astronomies of Native America and India and performed at Edinburgh's Scottish International Storytelling Festival.