Dr. Gossard is a social historian who examines the history childhood and youth through quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Her first book, Young Subjects: Children, State-Reform, and Social Building in the Eighteenth-Century French World (McGill-Queens’ University Press, 2021), argues that children were agents of historical change in eighteenth century France. Although her research has been long been rooted in the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, Dr. Gossard’s most recent works (and those currently in-progress) engage in a much wider regional and temporal focus with a remaining core interest in that of children and youth.

Additionally, Dr. Gossard expanded her scholarly research to include explorations of higher education pedagogy, especially history and general education teaching. In 2023, with Chris Babits, Dr. Gossard published Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success with Utah State University’s Empower Teaching Excellence Press.

At the moment, Dr. Gossard is considering the role of generative AI in the college classroom as well as the impact of experiential learning on humanities and social science undergraduate students.

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