Clarissa Chevalier 
  1. Education
  2. Publications
  3. Conferences
  4. Research, etc...
  5. Teaching
  6. Awards

UCSD Page

Clarissa Chevalier (she/her) is a Visual Arts PhD student at UC San Diego and is a member of the Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (PIER) at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Her dissertation research combines posthuman feminism, bio-optical imaging technologies, the history of oceanography, operative and technical images, and contemporary art. Chevalier received an MA in art history from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2020 and a BA in cinema arts and art history from Columbia College Chicago in 2018. In addition to her dissertation research, Chevalier has written and presented on topics of sustainability, ecological crisis, women in STEM, science studies, scientific instrument design and gender, ceramics, and the practices of historically under-recognized artists.Email: cchevalier @ ucsd.edu
Clarissa Chevalier 

Art + Science History, 
Interdisciplinary Research & Writing 



Awards


2023
Russell Grant, “Tracing the Feminist, Anticolonial Transformations of Science Through Creative Practice,” University of California San Diego

Deans Travel Grant, Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, University of California San Diego

2022
Deans Travel Grant, Getty Winter 2022 Consortium Travel, University of California San Diego 

2021
Larry W. Forrest Honorable Mention, “The Tip of the Iceberg: An Exploratory Inquiry into the Politicization of Polar Landscapes within Photographic History,” Savannah College of Art & Design.

2020
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Savannah College of Art & Design.

2019
Research Travel Grant, Agnes Denes Absolutes and Intermediates, Savannah College of Art & Design

Steven Myers Endowment Scholarship in Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design.

Larry W. Forrest Memorial Writing Competition Graduate Winning Paper, “How the Deconstruction of Binary Opposition Has Shaped the Writing, Work, and Reception of Agnes Denes,” Savannah College of Art and Design.

Harrison Award for Excellence in Research, University of Alabama Birmingham.

Travel Grant, Midwestern Art History Society Annual Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design.

2018
SCAD Academic Honors Graduate Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design.

SCAD Achievement Graduate Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design.

2014–2018
Columbia College Academic Achievement Award, Columbia College Chicago.