Courtney J. Martin is an art historian, having completed her doctorate at Yale University in 20th century British art. Currently, she is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art department at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to this appointment, she was a fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2008-2009) and, in 2007, a Henry Moore Institute Research Fellow. Before entering Yale, she was the Interim Head Curator at the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum and worked in the media, arts and culture unit of the Ford Foundation in New York on an international, sustainable arts portfolio. She has served as a consultant for Ford in the areas of arts education and cultural re-organization in the Gulf region. She has also written for Art Asia Pacific, Art Papers, Contemporary, Flash Art, Frieze, NKA and is a regular contributor to artforum.com.