TY - JOUR AU - Richard Glotzer PY - 2005/05/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Mabel Carney and the Hartford Theological Seminary: Rural Development, "Negro Education," and Missionary Training JF - Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation JA - HSE-RHE VL - 17 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.32316/hse/rhe.v17i1.416 UR - https://historicalstudiesineducation.ca/hse/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/article/view/416 AB - Mabel Carney (1886-1969), was a well-known innovator in Rural, African- American, and Colonial Education at Teachers College, Columbia University (1919-42). Little attention has been given to her work at the Kennedy School of Missions, Hartford Theological Seminary (1928-42). This paper details Carney’s interests and accomplishments in missionary training as well as the conceptual difficulties she experienced in integrating her professional ideas with her African-American and African experiences regarding race, culture, and discrimination. Her friendship with Charles T. Loram, Franz Boas, and W.E.B. Dubois, and with the Editorial Board of the Journal of Negro Education, broadened her exposure to racial and cultural issues. Her travels in Africa and Canada also exposed her to new ideas and modes of living. She steadily expanded and vitalized Missionary Education at Hartford while also secularizing the curriculum. The paper concludes by contextualizing her accomplishments in the religious and social conflicts of her active career and retirement. ER -