She received her B. A. cum laude from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has also taught at Rice University, Houston, and Whittier College, Whittier, CA. Professor Hyde has been an invited fellow at the L’Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris, a Clark Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute in Williamstown, MA, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute.