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ABOUT DR. GOSSARD

Dr. Julia M. Gossard is an experienced and impactful higher education research administrator, internationally recognized history researcher, and award-winning educator. She is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of History, and the Bennion Faculty Fellow at Utah State University. As a researcher, she examines the history of society, especially children and youth, as well as higher education history, humanities, and social sciences pedagogy through quantitative and qualitative research methods. She is the editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

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 Associate Professor of History, she examines the history of society, especially that of childhood and youth, as well as humanities and history pedagogy in U.S. higher education through quantitative and qualitative research methods. She currently serves as co-editor for the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

Dr. Gossard has received competitive research funding from the American Historical Association, the Mellon Foundation, the Newberry Library, the Society for the History of Childhood & Youth, the Society for French Historical Studies, and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, to name a few. Dr. Gossard’s excellence in research has been recognized with 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 several honorable mention citations from other prestigious organizations for her publications. She is the author and editor of three books:

• Young Subjects: Children, State-Building, and Social Reform in the 18th-century French World (McGill-Queen’s 2021)
• Habits of Mind: Designing General Education Courses for Student Success (USU ETE Press, 2023)
• Engaging Childhoods in Vast Early America, co-edited with Dr. Holly N.S. White (Routledge, 2024)

A proponent of high-impact, innovative teaching, Dr. Gossard is accredited by The Association of College & University Educators (ACUE) in best higher education teaching practices and online teaching. Her teaching portfolio at the graduate and undergraduate levels is expansive with specialties in active online asynchronous learning; historical research methods and theory; historical surveys; gender, family, sexuality, and childhood; and the Age of Revolutions. She regularly publishes on history, humanities, and social science pedagogy and best practices. Dr. Gossard also developed much of the Illumine textbook to incorporate high-impact, active learning strategies for W.W. Norton’s Western Civilizations textbook. She has also earned a “Master Teaching” certification through the Empowering Teaching Excellence Program at Utah State University. To find out more about her courses, her innovations in pedagogy, and her teaching philosophy, please visit her Teaching page.

Each summer, as the Bennion Faculty Fellow, Dr. Gossard facilitates the Mountain West Center’s Bennion Teachers’ Workshop.

Dr. Gossard attended Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas where she earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in History with Honors in the Liberal Arts and Departmental Distinction in History, working closely with Dr. Kathleen Wellman. She earned her MA and PhD in History from The University of Texas at Austin under the sage and dedicated mentorship of Dr. Julie Hardwick, the John E. Green Regents Professor of History, UT-Austin Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the UT Systems Regents Distinguished Teaching Professor. Dr. Gossard’s love of impactful teaching imbued with first-class qualitative and quantitative research was strongly encouraged by her mentors, Dr. Julie Hardwick and Dr. Kathleen Wellman.