• Profesora titular en el Departamento de Estudios de Cine y Medios, Universidad de California, Santa Barbara (2002-Actualidad).
• Directora del Carsey Wolf Center, Universidad de California, Santa Barbara (2015-2016).
• Directora del Departamento de Estudios de Cine y Medios, Universidad de California, Santa Barbara (2011-2014).
• Co-editora de la serie de libros Media Matters publicada por la Rutgers University Press (2016-actualidad).
• Directora del Latino Cinemedia Film Festival, Santa Barbara, CA, (2004-2010).

Libros

• Venegas, C. (2010). Digital Dilemmas: The State, the Individual and Digital Media in Cuba. Rutgers University Press.
• Martens, C., Venegas, C. y Salvio Sharupi Tapuy, E. F. (2020). Digital Activism, Community Media and Sustainable Communication in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan.

Libros/Capítulos

• Venegas, C. (2022). Julio García Espinosa and the Fight for Critical Culture in Cuba. Uncanny Histories in Film and Media. Rutgers University Press.
• Venegas, C. (2020). Tech Disruption as Knowledge Production: Cuba and the Digital Humanities. L'Hoeste, H.F. and Juan Carlos Rodriguez, J. (eds.) In and Out of Digital Humanities: Nations, Networks, and Practices in Latin/x America, University Press of Florida.
• Martens, C., Salvio Sharupi Tapuy, E. F. y Venegas, C.  (2020). Transforming Digital Media and Technology in Latin America. Digital Activism, Community Media and Sustainable Communication. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Pinos Calderón, D. E. y Venegas, C. (2020). Sounds in the Neighborhood: Innovation, Hybrid Urban Space, and Sound Trajectories. Digital Activism, Community Media and Sustainable Communication in Latin America, Martens, C. Venegas, C. y Salvio Sharupi Tapuy, Etsa Franklin. Palgrave MacMillan.
• Venegas, C. (2016). Cuban Filmmaking and the Post-Capitalist Transition. Petro, P. and Ferguson, K. (eds.), After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture and Citizenship, Rutgers University Press, 2016.
• Venegas, C. (2015). Fresa y chocolate: The Allure of Passions and Controversies. Lema-Hincapie, A. y Castillo, D. (eds.), Despite All Adversities: Spanish-American Queer Cinema, SUNY Press.
• Venegas, C. (2014). Cuba, Cyberculture and Exile Discourse. Kinder, M. y McPherson, T. (eds), Transmedia Frictions: The Digital, the Arts and the Humanities, University of California Press.
• Venegas, C. (2009). Thinking Regionally. Holt, J. y Peren, A. (eds), Media Industries: History, Theory and Methods, Blackwell Press.

Ponencias (Selección)

• Venegas, C. (2019). Julio Garcia Espinosa and the Imperfect Imagination. Uncanny Histories Conference, Carsey-Wolf Center, UCSB, February 21-23.
• Venegas, C. (2019). Cuba in the Digital Age: Locating Nadie’s Image. Latin American Studies Association, Boston, MA, May 24-27.
• Venegas, C. (2019). Fifty Years on From Imperfect Cinema: Julio García Espinosa’s Meditations on the Future of Media. Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, WA, March 13-17.
• Venegas, C. (2018). 1969, Latin America: Media Manifestos, Public Contestations, and the Shaping of Cultural Networks. Turning Points Symposium: Conversations in Global Media History, University of Michigan, September 28.

• Mapping Alzheimer’s: A Journey of Friendship and Discovery. Documental en desarrollo. Co-dirección y co-production Cristina Venegas y Marisa Venegas.

• Choice Book Award, Outstanding Title Digital Dilemmas: The State, the Individual and Digital Media in Cuba, 2010.
• Regents Faculty Research Fellowship, UCSB (2020-21 & 2022-23).
• Carsey-Wolf Center Faculty Research Fellowship (2022-22).
• Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship, UCSB (2020-21).
• Robert Emmons Award, UCSB (2018 – 2019).