Dr. Abigail L. Phillips is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include neurodiversity, mental health, disability, accessibility, inclusion, marginalized communities, cyberbullying/bullying, librarianship as a practice, libraries (public, school, and academic), and museums.
In August 2016, Abigail began a Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences (ITLS) at Utah State University. Through interdisciplinary work in learning sciences, education, and instructional technology, she researched ways to support librarians who want to offer maker programming and other STEM opportunities in small, rural public and school libraries. Abigail received her PhD in Information Science from the School of Information at Florida State University in Spring 2016. Before entering the PhD program, she worked as a public librarian in a small, rural public library system in South Georgia.