Claude Gauvard is a French historian and Middle Ages specialist.

[1] She was an assistant at the University of Rouen in 1969, then at the Sorbonne in 1971.

In 1989, she defended her doctoral thesis, Crime, État et société en France à la fin du Moyen Âge (which received the Malesherbes Prize and the Gobert Award from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres).

In 1990, she became a professor of history of the Middle Ages at the University of Reims.

She returned to the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 1992, where she taught history of the Middle Ages until 2009.