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Doctoral Candidate Sylvia Faichney Awarded Two Fellowships

This fall, History of Art & Architecture doctoral candidate Sylvia Faichney will begin her fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) as the predoctoral Wyeth Fellow (2025-2027). During her first year as a Wyeth fellow, she will be in residence at Dumbarton Oaks as a Junior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies (2025-2026).

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Appoints Ph.D. Candidate Elizabeth Driscoll Smith as the Joyce Linde Assistant Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art

Elizabeth Driscoll Smith has accepted a position as the Joyce Linde Assistant Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the MFA Boston. As part of the Art of the Americas department, the position involves integrating the collection of Folk and Self-Taught art into the Americas wing.

Undergraduate Graduation & Awards Celebration

Event Date: June 15, 2025 10:00AM - 12:00PM

Event Location: Engineering Sciences Building Room 1001

RSVP by May 19, 2025: https://forms.gle/HBqKXihVPW4WXFtU6

Swati Chattopadhyay Receives a SAH Book Award

Every year, the Society of Architectural Historians presents awards that recognize the most distinguished publications in architectural history, urban history, landscape history, preservation, and architectural exhibition catalogues. The 2025 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award has been given to Swati Chattopadhyay for her book, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Swati Chattopadhyay is Awarded a Senior Fellowship

Professor Swati Chattopadhyay has received a Senior Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art for 2025-26 to write her book The Art of Sovereignty: Making and Unmaking the British Empire.

HAA Museum Trip: The Getty Center

Event Start: April 11, 2025 08:30 AM

Event End: April 11, 2025 06:30 PM

Event Location: The Getty Center

Event Price:

Free admission

Event Details:

Sign Up with Fiona Hosmer-Hughes, Undergraduate Program Advisor (arthistory-ug-arthi@ucsb.edu) by April 1.

Students must complete a waiver of liability to attend.

Ph.D. Candidate Alexander Luckmann Co-authors Edited Volume

Constructing and Reconstructing History in Twentieth-Century German Architecture , co-edited by Ph.D.

Swati Chattopadhyay Awarded an HBA Book Prize

The Historians of British Art Book Prize Committee is pleased to announce the award for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800–1960 goes to Swati Chattopadhyay, for Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire