Christiane Joost-Gaugier

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Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier (born 1934) [1] is a French-born American art history scholar whose research has included work on the art of the Italian Renaissance and on the influence of Pythagoras on art and philosophy into the Middle Ages and Renaissance. She is also known for bringing the first class action against an American university for its discriminatory treatment of women faculty. [1] [2] [3]

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Education and career

Joost-Gaugier was born in 1934 in France. [1] She graduated with honors from Radcliffe College in 1955, earned an A.M. there in 1959 and a PhD from Harvard University in 1973. [3] She taught at Michigan State University in the early 1960s, and in the late 1960s joined the Tufts University faculty, [1] . In 1970 she initiated a class action lawsuit against Tufts University for unequal treatment of women. The case was taken up by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, eventually decided in her favor, settled in the mid-1980s, and became a significant legal precedent. [1] [2] [3] However, as a consequence of her actions, Joost-Gaugier found herself "harassed and ostracized by her university" and "widely blackballed". [1]

She became a professor and department chair at the following universities: New Mexico State University, the University of New Mexico, and Wayne State University. Joost-Gaugier has lectured internationally and published widely including over 200 research articles. She is the recipient of many awards including a Fulbright Fellowship and grants from the American Society of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the Delmas Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Kress Foundation. She is responsible for obtaining a grant which commenced the restoration of Minoru Yamasaki's Courtyard in Detroit. Already a three times graduate of Harvard, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award with Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 2005. She now continues her work as an independent scholar.

Books

Joost-Gaugier's books include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Love, Barbara J., ed. (2006), "Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. (1934–)", Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975, University of Illinois Press, p. 241, ISBN   9780252031892
  2. 1 2 "Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier", Part-time faculty, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, archived from the original on 2022-04-23, retrieved 2022-05-20
  3. 1 2 3 "Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment", Research Guides, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University, retrieved 2022-05-20
  4. ↑ Reviews of Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura:
  5. ↑ Reviews of Measuring Heaven:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe:
  7. ↑ Reviews of Islamic Elements in the Architecture of Puglia:
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