Alba Ferrandiz Gaudens

Alba Ferrándiz Gaudens is a PhD student at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia. Her research looks at the circulation, agency and display of CHamoru objects (from the Mariana Islands) in Spanish museums. Her thesis also focuses on the history of CHamoru collections in Spanish museums, the relationships between CHamoru and Spanish institutions and cultural revitalisation of ancestral practices in the Mariana Islands.

Alba is Events Officer at the Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) since 2022. MEG is a UK-based network for people that work with, in or around museums of ethnography. She has gained valuable experience working as  Assistant Curator for Pacific collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University.