I am a media historian who researches the relationship between race, labor, and material resources in media production. I am currently completing my PhD in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. My doctoral dissertation, “Working below below-the-line: race, labor, and resources in Classical Hollywood,” develops a methodology for tracing the film industry’s dependence on racialized labor, particularly during the labor crisis of the Second World War. My work has been supported by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowed Dissertation Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.