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Mabel Gardner

Assistant Professor

Office:  TBD

Teaching: Fall/Winter 2026-27

Course Code

Course Title
HIST 2140 Women in Canadian History: Changing Roles and Diverse Societal Realities

Research Interest/Specialization:

Professor Gardner’s specialization is in Canadian and United States history in the twentieth century with expertise in the fields of Black Histories in North America and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Histories. Dr. Gardner has completed SSHRC funded research projects about African American youth activism in Lawnside, New Jersey, and women journalists in the 1930s and World War II.

 

Selected Publications:

“Black Power Revisited: The Political Ideology and Grassroots Activism of The Young Blacks of Lawnside.” FCH Annals 29, (2024): 27-43.

 

“By Pen, Sword, and Struggle: African American High School Student Activism in Lawnside, New Jersey,” Past Imperfect 21, number 1, (2018): 77-110.

 

“From Trans-Normativity to Trans-Hysteria: Media Representations of Transgendered Activist Paula Grossman,” In LGBTQ+ Narratives in Global Media, Volume II, edited by Tamanna M. Shah and Sohali Jha, Vernon Press: Wilmington, Delaware, 2025.  

 

“Lawnside, New Jersey.” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, 2019.

 

“The Jim Crow North: Segregation and Agency in New Jersey Swimming Pools and Beaches.” Past Tense Graduate Review of History 7, issue 1, (2019): 8-35.