2026 ALISE Annual Conference

Dr. Nicole A. Cooke is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina. She brings a critical and humanistic lens to library and information science, with research interests that include human information behavior, critical cultural information studies, critical pedagogy, and equity and social justice in the field. Her scholarship is widely recognized for advancing understanding of misinformation, disinformation, and racialized malinformation, as well as the ways in which libraries can resist these forces through critical cultural literacy.