Dr. Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is a distinguished art historian and Renaissance scholar who earned her A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Her scholarship in the history of art and the history of ideas has been published extensively in international journals and conference proceedings. Among her publications are the following books: The Selected Drawings of Jacopo Bellini (New York and Toronto), Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura: Meaning and Invention (Cambridge and New York), Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and his Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Ithaca and London), Pitagora e il suo influsso sul pensiero e sull árte (Rome), and Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe: Finding Heaven (Cambridge and New York). Her book, Measuring Heaven…, which studies the relation between philosophy, religion, mathematics and architecture in Antiquity and medieval times, has recently come out in paperback. She has two additional book manuscripts in preparation.



Dr. Joost-Gaugier has held faculty appointments at Tufts University, New Mexico State University, and The University of New Mexico. She was an independent scholar in Washington, D.C. where she taught at George Washington University, Georgetown University, The University of Maryland College Park and The Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Joost-Gaugier has served as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at New Mexico State University and at The University of New Mexico. She has received many awards and honors, including a Fulbright Fellowship, several grants from NEH, the Kress Foundation, the AAUW, the American Philosophical Society, the Delmas Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies. She was awarded an Honorary Phi Beta Kappa for Lifetime Achievement from Harvard University in 2005.

Dr. Joost-Gaugier was an early leader in the movement for equality of women in academia. She filed the first class action for equal pay and equal benefits in academe on behalf of all women at Tufts University. It became the precedent-setting case in the academic world.