Clarissa Chevalier 
  1. Education
  2. Curatorial
  3. Publications
  4. Conferences
  5. Teaching
  6. Awards

UCSD Page

Clarissa Chevalier (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego affiliated with the Visual Arts Department and the Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her dissertation research combines media theory, feminist science studies, biological oceanography, and artistic practice to critically reimagine contemporary ocean visualization, datafication, and simulation. Chevalier has written and presented on topics of sustainability, ecological crisis, early women oceanographers, and the vital importance of artistic collaboration with scientists to offer alternative interpretations of scientific data calibrated to different ethical commitments. Email: cchevalier @ ucsd.edu
Clarissa Chevalier 
Art + Science History, Environmental Media Theory, Feminist Science Studies


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.