Dr. Abigail L. Phillips is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Her research interests include neurodiversity, mental health, disability, accessibility, marginalized, undeserved, and invisible communities, as well as cyberbullying and bullying. She also explores librarianship as a practice and libraries as both institutions and community spaces.
In August 2016, Abigail began a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences (ITLS) at Utah State University. Through interdisciplinary work in the fields of learning sciences, education, and instructional technology, she investigated ways to improve support for librarians and library workers seeking to offer maker programming and other STEAM activities in small, rural public and school libraries, as part of an IMLS grant. 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. As is the norm in public libraries, she wore many hats from story times to grant writing to collaborating with a teen patron to create a manga club.