Dr. Razieh Alba

Biography

Dr. Razieh Alba is an interdisciplinary researcher, educator, and practicing visual artist whose work explores the intersections of Indigenous education, art education, curriculum, and decolonization. She earned her PhD in Educational Research (Curriculum and Learning) from the University of Calgary. Her doctoral research, Exploring Indigenous Storytelling Practices Through Art: Two-Eyed Seeing in Post-Secondary Education, examined how Indigenous storytelling, land-based learning, and collaborative art practices can transform post-secondary education through the Two-Eyed Seeing framework.

Dr. Alba's research focuses on collaborative approaches that respectfully bring Indigenous and Western knowledges alongside one another in educational spaces while centring Indigenous voices, self-determination, and relationship-building. Drawing on Indigenous Storywork, Storytelling as Methodology, and arts-based research, her scholarship explores how art can serve as a catalyst for reconciliation, perspective-taking, and meaningful educational transformation.

Alongside her research, Dr. Alba is an experienced university instructor and practicing three-dimensional, visual, and conceptual artist. Her artistic practice explores identity, memory, social justice, and lived experience through sculpture, installation, and narrative-based works that invite dialogue, reflection, and social change.