Joanna Marbaniang is a PhD Candidate in cultural anthropology at Duke University. Her PhD research examines how gambling addiction in Northeast India complicates our understanding of addiction, tradition, and everyday forms of survival. She holds a BA in Psychology and Anthropology and a Masters in Social Work from India and worked in mental health NGOs in India before pursuing her PhD.
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Drawing the Future in Collaborative Speculative Comics
In the spring of 2025 when I took Adam Rosenblatt’s class Graphic Ethnography: Comics as Research, I was both curious and nervous. I was certain that drawing an... More
Sequential Speculation: Learning and Making Futures Through Ethnographic Comics
In the spring of 2025, the three authors in this series met through a course called Graphic Ethnography: Comics as Research. Adam, Federico, and Joanna—a profes... More
Speculation in Ethnographic Comics
This series features four essays on comics and the speculative imagination in the classroom and ethnographic field research. The authors, who met in a seminar o... More