Magna Mohapatra is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in History and Communication Arts. Magna’s research focuses on social movements, comic affect, humour, mass media and political discourse in India and South Asia. Her research interests encompass political and psychological anthropology through the lens of decoloniality and affect. Magna has completed her M.A. and MPhil. in Sociology and Social Anthropology at South Asian University, New Delhi, where she graduated Summa cum laude as a Presidential Scholar. She looks forward to contributing to anthropological methodologies in her time in Madison.