Alba Ferrándiz Gaudens is a postgraduate researcher 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 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. She holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen and a Masters degree in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas from the University of East Anglia. Alba is Events Officer at the Museum Ethnographers Group since 2022. She has worked as Assistant Curator for Pacific collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University.