Assistant Professor Nicole A. Cooke and Assistant Professor Emily Knox have been selected to join the editorial board of The Library Quarterly, an international journal that publishes scholarship, research, resource reviews, and essays that explore the role of libraries in connecting their communities and information. Cooke and Knox each began a three-year term on the board this month.
Cooke graduated from Rutgers University with a PhD in communication, information, and library studies in 2012 (where she was a 2008 American Library Association Spectrum Doctoral Fellow). Prior to joining the faculty at GSLIS, she was an instruction librarian and tenured assistant professor at Montclair State University’s (New Jersey) Sprague Library. Her research interests include human information behavior, particularly in an online context; diversity and social justice in librarianship; LIS education and pedagogy, particularly in the online environment; and information literacy and instruction.
Knox received her PhD from the Rutgers University School of Communication and Information in 2012. Her master's in library and information science is from GSLIS. She holds a BA in religious studies from Smith College and an MA in the same field from The University of Chicago Divinity School. Previously, she was the associate director and reference librarian at the St. Mark’s (now Keller) Library of the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City for five years. Her research interests include intellectual freedom and censorship, print culture and reading practices, and information ethics and policy.