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Christy Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of The Art Bulletin and a professor in the history of architecture at the University of Toronto. Her most recent project is a study of the ship as an architectural type by exploring the spaces and environments that connect the sea to the shore. Her books include Renaissance Architecture (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2006). She has published on the complicated history of classicism and gender, the failure of architectural language, and the politics of wonder.

Christy has raised funds for the Scott Opler Fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford University, has been a leader in the field as a board member of both the Society of Architectural Historians and the Renaissance Society of America, and is committed to developing opportunities for early-career scholars.  

In 2010, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Architecture, Planning, and Design. She received her PhD from MIT, and was a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford University. 

Christy’s recent talks include:   

• "Writers and Readers: Publishing in Art History Now," Centre Andre Chastel, Sorbonne University, Paris (April 2024) 
• Chair: “Queering the Interior: Shame, Masculinity and Twentieth-Century Interior Design,” an event organized in conjunction with The Art Bulletin special feature with essays by John Potvin, Alice Friedman, Timothy Rohan, and Kevin Murphy (March 2024) 
•  “A Community of Strangers: Ships at Sea," for Transmission, Containment, Transformation: A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities, Sawyer Seminar, Pennsylvania State University (March 2022)