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Christy Anderson

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Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque. She is currently a professor of Art and Architecture at University of Toronto.[1][2]

She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A., from University of Massachusetts Amherst with an M.A. in the History of Art, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a PhD from the School of Architecture in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Architecture and Urbanism Program. She taught at Yale University from 1995 until 2004. She has lectured at the Courtauld Institute of Art,[3] and Harvard University.[4]

While at Yale University, she was the recipient of several teaching prizes, including the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, Yale College (2001), the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale College (2001), and the Poorvu Family Prize for Interdisciplinary Teaching at Yale College (1997).

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Works

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  • "Letter to an Undergraduate", Yale Review of Books, Spring 2004
  • British architectural theory, 1540-1750: an anthology of texts, Editors Caroline van Eck, Christy Anderson, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003, ISBN 9780754603153
  • The Built Surface: Architecture and the pictorial arts from antiquity to the Enlightenment, Editors Christy Anderson, Karen Koehler, Ashgate, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7546-0022-0
  • Inigo Jones and the classical tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-82027-1

References

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  1. ^ "Christy Anderson — Art Department". Archived from the original on 2010-08-23. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  2. ^ "Christy Anderson | University of Toronto - Academia.edu".
  3. ^ "The Courtauld Institute of Art: Architecture Event Christy Anderson". Archived from the original on 2010-05-18. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  4. ^ "Alina Payne - Harvard University". Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  5. ^ "Christy Anderson - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  6. ^ "Prof. Christie Anderson wins Guggenheim Fellowship — Art Department". Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2010-05-08.