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Olivia Stowell is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Communication & Media at the University of Michigan. Her research and writing focus on race and labor in contemporary television and pop culture. Her dissertation project explores discursive formations of race and racism in relation to gender, work, genre, and regulation in post-2020 U.S. reality TV.