Current Projects

Casino Capitalism: Digital Gambling, Screen Workers, and Cyberlibertarians

Chelsea’s dissertation research illustrates the global links between the digital gambling industry’s feminized labor force, neoliberal economic policies, and cyberlibertarian ideologies. She is advised by Drs. Patrice Petro, Alenda Chang, Laila Shereen Sakr, Maurizia Boscagli, and Jane Ward.

Women, Work, and Gambling (FAMST 190WG)

This undergraduate seminar provides an interdisciplinary introduction to media studies texts that critically engage with labor, class, gender, race, digital media, and gaming. Drawing from texts in feminist studies, history, literature, sociology, critical theory, gaming and gambling studies, political economy, cultural criticism, and film theory, students will critically interrogate gambling and digital media through the lenses of gender and labor. In this course we will ask questions such as: How are entertainment and work shaped by capitalism and mediated by digital platforms? Who works and plays on digital platforms? How does digital media change, distort, warp, or adapt our work lives and leisure time? Offered Spring 2026.

Alt-Right Media Literacy Series

Interdisciplinary six-part speaker series with scholars invited to speak on the movement from the academic lenses of history, cultural identity, art, new media practices, religious studies and esotericism, and feminism. Fall 2022–Spring 2024.