Jamie Campbell Naidoo

Jamie Campbell Naidoo, PhD, is the Foster-EBSCO Endowed Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. A former elementary school library media specialist and children’s librarian, he researches library services for diverse populations and the representation of underrepresented communities in children’s and young adult literature. He earned an MLIS from the University of Alabama in 2000 and a PhD in Communication and Information Studies from the same institution in 2006.

Naidoo is the author or editor of Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, Celebrating Cuentos: Promoting Latino Children’s Literature and Literacy in Classrooms and Libraries, Diversity Programming for Digital Youth, and Once Upon a Cuento: Bilingual Storytimes in English and Spanish. He also co-edited Open Books, Open Doors: Cultural Diversity On and Off the Page and served as president of the Association for Library Service to Children from 2018 to 2019.