I am a media historian who researches the relationship between race, labor, and material resources in media production. I am an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Film in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University. I received my PhD from the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan in 2025. 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.