Barbara Morgan Gardner

Barbara Morgan Gardner is an associate professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University.

She holds a PhD in instructional psychology and did post-doctoral work at Harvard University. She earned a master’s degree in educational leadership and foundation. Her research interests focus primarily on women in religious leadership, international education (most specifically Latin America), and religious pedagogy. 

She has written and presented on women and the priesthood. She is the author of The Priesthood Power of Women: In the Temple, Church, and Family.

She served as institute director in Boston, which included her assignment as the chaplain at both Harvard and MIT. She continues to serve as the chaplain-at-large in higher education for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She also serves on the BYU Interfaith Outreach Council.

Before teaching at BYU, she worked as a Seminary and Institute teacher as well as a researcher for the Church Educational System. 

Barbara was born and raised in Salem, Oregon. She served a Spanish-speaking mission in the Los Angeles Temple visitors’ center. She is married to Dustin Gardner, are they are parents of two children.