Robert Winslow Gordon (September 2, 1888 – March 26, 1961) was an American academic, known as a collector of folk songs.

[1] Gordon accepted and used the Adventure column to collect information on traditional American music from the magazine's readers.

[1] Gordon was the founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song (later the Archive of Folk Culture, which became part of the American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress in 1928.

He was a pioneer in using mechanical means to document folk musicians, originally using Edison cylinder recordings.

[2] From 1943 to 1958, Gordon was a Professor of English at George Washington University.