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Jennifer Mandel

Jennifer Mandel, Ph.D.

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Associate Director of Assessment

Location

Decary Hall 414A
Biddeford Campus

Jennifer Mandel serves as associate director of assessment in UNE’s Office of the Provost and adjunct history faculty in UNE’s School of Arts and Humanities. Since 2015, she has been facilitating UNE’s University Assessment Committee and the university-wide annual assessment and regular program review processes first as assessment program manager and then beginning in 2018 in her current role. She teaches history, previously at Granite State College, Hesser College, and the University of New Hampshire, and since 2009, at UNE. Dr. Mandel writes on the history of African Americans in Los Angeles, California, as well as on assessment. Among her publications, she is the author of The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles (University of Nevada Press, 2022). She also serves on the board of directors and as treasurer of the New England Educational Assessment Network. She has been awarded many grants and fellowships, and has presented at history, assessment, and higher education administration conferences. Dr. Mandel earned a Ph.D. in United States history at the University of New Hampshire.

Credentials

Education

Ph.D.
University of New Hampshire
2010
M.A.
Rutgers University - Newark
2001
B.A.
California State University, Northridge
1998

Research

Selected publications

History Publications

. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2022.

of LaKisha Michelle Simmons, Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans. H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews. June 2016.

“,”&Բ;Southern California Quarterly 98, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 59-105.

Contributed to the chapters, “World War II” and “The Affluent Society,” in , edited by Joseph Locke and Ben Wright. First published in 2015.

Higher Education Publication

Ebenfield, Marc N., Lane W. Clarke, Anuja Doshi, Krysten Gorrivan, Gregory LaBonte, Christina Leclerc, Jennifer Mandel, and Glenn Stevenson. "Application of Trauma-Informed Teaching and Learning Principles in a Blended Learning Environment." In , edited by Upasana Gitanjali Singh, Chenicheri Sid Nair, Craig Blewett, and Timothy Shea, 185-96. Cambridge, MA: Chandos Publishing, 2022.