Biography
Kelsey Moore is a PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. She holds a BA in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Riverside and an MA in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of Southern California. Prior to studying at UC Santa Barbara, Kelsey worked as an assistant digital media archivist for the Sherman Grinberg Film Library. Her research interests include photography and newsreel studies, memory studies and intergenerational trauma, and archival theory and practice. Her dissertation considers the relationship between visual archives and digital practices of appraisal and preservation, and how these archival spheres contemporarily memorialize the Japanese American incarceration.