Margaretta M. Lovell is Jay D. McEvoy, Jr. Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of America and its art, including landscape painting, portraiture, furniture, architecture, and forests. She received a B.A. in English from Smith College, an M.A. from the University of Delaware's joint program with the Winterthur Museum in Early American Culture, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Institutions where she has held faculty appointments include Yale, Harvard University, the University of Michigan, The College of William & Mary and Stanford University in addition to Berkeley. She has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, The Huntington Library, and the Terra Foundation for American Art among others. Honors she has received include, for Art in a Season of Revolution, the 2007 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art and the 2007 Historians of British Art Prize, and, for A Visitable Past, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize of the American Studies Association. She was one of five recipients of U.C. Berkeley's 2009 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors, (called "Teaching Assistants" at most other institutions).