2026 ALISE Annual Conference

Abigail L. Phillips is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her research interests include neurodiversity, mental health, disability, accessibility, and support for marginalized and underserved communities, as well as cyberbullying and libraries as community spaces. She received her PhD in Information Science from Florida State University in 2016.Following graduation, Abigail accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Utah State University, where she investigated needed support for rural school librarians with maker programming and STEAM activities in small, rural school libraries as part of an IMLS grant.

Before entering the PhD program, Abigail worked as a public librarian in a rural library system back in her hometown in South Georgia. A position, per usual in public librarians, she wore many hats over her tenure as a teen volunteer, page, children's librarian assistant, library assistant, and, finally, a public librarian.