Alexandra Page Alberda
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- Manchester Museum
- University of Manchester View ROR record for University of Manchester. (opens in new tab)
Biography
Alexandra P. Alberda (she/her; Jemez of Pueblo/White) is the first ever Curator of Indigenous Perspectives at Manchester Museum. She was appointed to take forward the innovative ‘Indigenising Manchester Museum’ programme, funded by the John Ellerman Foundation, which sets Indigenous perspectives at the heart of the museum. She is the lead curator of the Belonging Gallery along with Rachel Petts and Michelle Scott. This gallery includes comics instead of standard gallery interpretation to tell object and lived experience based stories exploring how we come to know a sense of belonging.
Previous to her role, she was a doctoral researcher and research illustrator at Bournemouth University. Her PhD, “Graphic Medicine Exhibited: Public Engagement with Comics in Curatorial Practice and Visitor Experience since 2010” (2021), explores the intersections of the comics medium, health, and exhibition to understand potential activist and community-based methodological approaches and sociocultural values of these experiences. Her collaborative projects have explored such topics as public health, health exhibitions, data storytelling and visualisation, comics, and creative-led knowledge exchange. As a research illustrator, she has worked on a number of projects, including a chapter in her graphic medicine thesis, two COVID-19 web comics, and The Data Storytelling Workbook (Routledge 2020). She is currently the research illustrator for an AHRC funded COVID Comics research project led by Dr Anna Feigenbaum (Bournemouth University).