Ph.D., Ohio University
M.S., Ohio University
M.A., University of Southern Denmark
B.A., Aarhus University, Denmark

Natascha Toft Roelsgaard is an assistant professor of journalism whose research examines the intersections of journalism history, media law, and advocacy media. She is particularly interested in how media institutions and legal systems shape public understandings of justice, authority, and democratic life. Her scholarship explores the historical role of journalists in challenging, exposing, and at times reinforcing systems of social and criminal injustice, while also examining the contributions of overlooked reporters during periods of conflict and war.

She is the co-author of Journalism and the Russo-Japanese War: The End of the Golden Age of Combat Correspondence (Lexington Books, 2019), and her work has appeared in edited volumes published by Routledge and in the peer-reviewed journal Journalism History.

Roelsgaard holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication-Journalism and a Master of Science in Journalism from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. She is originally from Denmark, where she earned a Master of Arts in American Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in International Communication and Multimedia.