Grace Alexandrino Ocaña holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Archaeology from PUCP. She is currently a Dean Fellow at Stanford University and is affiliated as a professor and researcher with the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Archaeology at the same university. Her research focuses on the relationship between pre-colonial cultural heritage, its administration, social use, and cultural activism associated with the concept of citizenship. Before beginning her graduate studies, she worked in field archaeology in different projects on the Central and Southern Coast, as well as in the mountains of the Lima and Nazca regions. As a Peruvian archaeologist with more than a decade of experience in the field, she has participated in numerous excavation projects in the Central Andes region. At Stanford, she has coordinated the Latin American and Caribbean Working Group and the Stanford Archaeology Center's Outreach Program. She was also the Emerging Scholars Coordinator at the Institute of Andean Studies and is currently a member of the Peruvian Center for Maritime and Underwater Archaeology and the PACUN-PUCP research group focused on Cultural and Natural Heritage issues. She has been awarded the Stanford Provost Graduate Teaching Fellowship, and is also a Fellow at the Stanford Social Science Research Institute. Her doctoral dissertation examines the relationship between pre-Hispanic cultural heritage, its administration, social use, cultural activism, and the concept of citizenship in metropolitan Lima, Peru.