Julia M Gossard

Biography

Dr. Julia M. Gossard is an experienced and impactful higher education research administrator, history researcher, and award-winning educator. She is the Associate Dean for Research of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS), an Associate Professor of History, and the Mountain West Center’s Bennion Teachers’ Workshop Faculty Fellow.

As the Associate Dean for Research, she supports CHaSS faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in their pursuit of research and creative opportunities excellency. Focused on strategic administrative planning for research innovation in the humanities and social sciences, Dr. Gossard thoughtfully responds to the needs of CHaSS researchers. In addition to fostering a robust intellectual community through research workshops, seminars, and professional development, Associate Dean Gossard administers competitive internal grant funding programs, strongly advocates for CHaSS faculty at the university level and to external parties, liaises with the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, strategically develops new research and creative opportunities support mechanisms, and mentors faculty in extramural and internal grant development.

As an Associate Professor of History, she examines the history of society, especially that of childhood and youth, through quantitative and qualitative research methods in Europe and the United States. She is also an award-winning teacher, pushing the boundaries of higher education pedagogy and researching humanities and social sciences teaching practices. She has received many competitive international and national research grants and awards from prestigious organizations such as the American Historical Association, the Mellon Foundation, the Newberry Library, the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, and the Society for French Historical Studies, to name a few. Her excellency in research has been recognized with several publication awards including the Fass-Sandin Prize (2019) from the Society for the History of Childhood & Youth as well as the Best Article Prize (2017) from the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth along with honorable mention citations from other organizations. Dr. Gossard is the author of three books: Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the 18th-Century French World (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021); Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success (USU ETE Press, 2023); and Encountering Childhoods in Vast Early America (Routledge, 2024). Dr. Gossard is currently researching higher educational pedagogical practices, especially high-impact practices, and the use of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom. In the historical discipline, she is also studying in the construction of modern girlhood and the concept of “double age.” Dr. Gossard is available for publishing and speaking opportunities for higher education teaching as well as her specialties in historical research.