Thalia Gouma-Peterson (1933-2001) was Professor Emerita of Art History and museum curator at the College of Wooster in Ohio.

[1] Her research and writing were concentrated in two distinct fields: Byzantine icons and frescoes (she was trained as a medievalist), and contemporary feminist art.

She published in Art Bulletin , Gesta , and Dumbarton Oaks Papers , and organized exhibitions of the work of Miriam Schapiro, Audrey Flack, Faith Ringgold, and Emma Amos.

The Legacy of the Women’s Caucus for Art called her “a pioneer and inquisitive explorer" and "a powerful model...through example to generations of students.”[citation needed] Gouma-Peterson’s books include Miriam Schapiro: Shaping the Fragments of Art and Life on the work and life of feminist artist Miriam Schapiro; Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack A Retrospective 1950 - 1990 and Anna Komnene and Her Times (2000), on the Byzantine princess, scholar, physician, and historian co-edited by Marcia Colish.

[5] Her other publications included articles on the artists Elizabeth Catlett, Joyce Kozloff, Faith Ringgold, Athena Tacha, and Ruth Weisberg, among others.