Julia M Gossard is Assistant Professor of History at Utah State University, specializing in early modern European and Atlantic history with an emphasis on gender, family, and childhood. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Institute for Historical Studies before joining the faculty at Utah State. With funding from the American Historical Association, the Newberry Library, the Society for French Historical Studies, and the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Dr. Gossard wrote her first book, Coercing Children: State-Building and Social Reform in the Early Modern French World, which is under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her articles on public history have appeared in Age of Revolutions Blog, Notches, and AHA Today’s Teaching with #DigHist.
Julia M Gossard
