Two scholars land coveted spots at the nation’s top art research institute.
Two doctoral candidates from UC Santa Barbara’s Department of History of Art and Architecture, Elizabeth Driscoll Smith and Sylvia Faichney, have been named Wyeth Fellows at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., CASVA is the Gallery’s research institute and offers the most prestigious national-level fellowships in art and architectural history: limited to ten total pre-doctoral fellowships nationally.
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Seren Snow, "Two History of Art and Architecture doctoral students awarded prestigious Wyeth fellowships," UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts News, posted October 31, 2025