CV

chelsearoesch [at] ucsb [dot] edu

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara

PhD, Film and Media Studies, emphasis in Information Technology + Society (in progress)

MA, Film and Media Studies (2023)

Hampshire College

B.A., Media and Cultural Studies (2014)

Awards

  • Building Intellectual Community Grant, University of California, Irvine Humanities Center, 2024

  • University of California Marxist Institute for Research (UC-MIR) Summer Seminar Inaugural Cohort, 2023

  • HASTAC Scholars Fellow, 2022–2024

  • Multicampus Graduate Student Working Group Grant, University of California Humanities Research Institute, 2022–2023

  • Graduate Collaborative Award, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022–2023

  • Regents Fellowship in Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021–present

  • North American Language and Culture Ambassador, Government of Spain, 2014–2016

  • Reproductive Rights Activist Service Grant, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, 2013

  • Hampshire College New Faculty Scholarship, 2010–2014

Publishing

Coeditor, Media Fields, “Special Issue: Media Literacy of the American Alt-Right,” 2024.

Editorial Assistant, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies (Duke University Press), 2021–2023.

Professional Experience

Researcher, Global Health 50/50, 2023.

  • Consulting researcher on GH5050’s reports on labor, gender, and racial/ethnic inequality.

Managing Director, Technologies for Justice Lab, 2022–2023.

  • Planning interdisciplinary events and programming that brings students from the arts, humanities, social sciences into collaboration with engineering and computer science students.

Technical Recruiter, Cadre, November 2018–October 2020

  • Consulted tech companies in LA and San Francisco on best practices for hiring software engineers. Clients ranged from seed-stage startups to publicly-traded enterprises.

  • Recruited individual-contributor, management, and executive-level software engineers. 

Technical Recruiter, CyberCoders, January 2018–November 2018

  • Recruited software engineers for aerospace, robotics, and industrial automation companies nationwide.

Support Team Lead, Honey, November 2016–January 2018

  • Maintained Support responses for over 6 million users through email, Facebook comments + messages, Twitter, and bug reports in a manner consistent with the brand's style, voice, and tone.