About Julia Gossard

Dr. Julia M. Gossard is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of History at Utah State University. She specializes in the history of childhood and youth.

Dr. Julia M. Gossard is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of History at Utah State University.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Julia:

Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

June 5, 2023

The Melancholy Void

Felipe Valencia
Hosted by Julia Gossard
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On today’s episode on New Books Network, we're joined by Dr. Felipe Valencia, Associate Professor of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Depar…

Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling, "Exceptional Me: How Donald Trump Exploited the Discourse of American Exceptionalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

April 3, 2023

Exceptional Me

Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling
Hosted by Julia Gossard

Today, I’m sitting down with Dr. Jason Gilmore, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Utah State University to discuss his recently publishe…

Susan R. Grayzel, "The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

April 1, 2023

The Age of the Gas Mask

Susan R. Grayzel
Hosted by Julia Gossard

On this episode, we sit down with Dr. Susan R. Grayzel, Professor of History at Utah State University to discuss The Age of the Gas Mask: How British …

Joyce Kinkead, "A Writing Studies Primer" (Broadview Press, 2022)

March 28, 2023

A Writing Studies Primer

Joyce Kinkead
Hosted by Julia Gossard

Dr. Joyce Kinkead, Distinguished Professor of English at Utah State University discusses her recent book, A Writing Studies Primer (Broadview Press. 2…

Nimisha Barton, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945" (Cornell UP, 2020)

December 8, 2020

Reproductive Citizens

Nimisha Barton
Hosted by Julia Gossard

On today’s New Books in History, we sit down with Dr. Nimisha Barton to discuss her new book, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, …

Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir" (Cornell UP, 2020)

October 26, 2020

Sex, Love, and Letters

Judith G. Coffin
Hosted by Julia Gossard

When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it insp…

S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2017)

August 28, 2020

Gender and the Great War

S. Grayzel and T. Proctor
Hosted by Julia Gossard

In this week episode of “New Books in History,” we’ll discuss Gender and the Great War (Oxford University Press, 2017) with editors Sue Grayzel and Ta…

Laurie M. Wood, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire" (Yale UP, 2020)

July 23, 2020

Archipelago of Justice

Laurie M. Wood
Hosted by Julia Gossard

Historians have long treated the Atlantic and Indian Ocean routes of early modern French empire separately. But, early modern people understood France…

Sarah Knott, "Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History" (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)

July 3, 2020

Mother Is a Verb

Sarah Knott
Hosted by Julia Gossard

Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity—th…

Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France" (Oxford UP, 2019)

September 4, 2019

Politics in the Marketplace

Katie Jarvis
Hosted by Julia Gossard

The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789. The crowd approaching t…

Jesse Cromwell, "The Smugglers’ World: Illicit Trade and Atlantic Communities in Eighteenth-Century Venezuela" (UNC Press, 2018)

August 28, 2019

The Smugglers’ World

Jesse Cromwell
Hosted by Julia Gossard

Chocolate – nothing is more irresistible for a decadent treat or a rich drink to warm you on a cold winter’s evening. In eighteenth-century Venezuela,…