Affiliated with Africana Studies.

Cheryl Knott is an associate professor in UA’s School of Information. Her articles in scholarly journals, including Library Quarterly, Libraries & Culture, and Library Trends, have focused on the history of public libraries and on information access broadly construed. Her book, Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow, is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press. She holds a PhD in library and information science from the University of Texas at Austin and master’s degrees in history and in library science from the University of Arizona.