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Karuna Vikram is a third year at Columbia University studying History. She is conducting research for her senior thesis on the history of intellectual property rights and their codification in laws and treaties. As a part of her archival research, she is also interested in finding contingent moments and narratives of resistance on the scale of nation states and local communities. She hopes to anchor her IP research in India as an example of a decolonizing and modernizing state. To prepare her for this research project at the intersection of law and history, Karuna has been an undergraduate judicial intern at Kings County Housing Court in New York. She has also worked for Project ToxicDocs, one of the largest repositories of formerly classified documents about industrial poisons uncovered through litigation. Lastly, Karuna is a founding member of the Columbia Journal of Asia and an editor for the Columbia Journal of History and the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review.