Lucrezia Gigante
Lucrezia Gigante was selected as a finalist for the 2025 ENCATC Research Award for her PhD thesis “The Spatial Politics of Art Organisations: Public Programmes as Sites of Cultural Citizenship“ defended at the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies.
Lucrezia Gigante is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, with an interest in contemporary public culture and the politics of place-based cultural participation. Her interest focuses on the political agency and responsibility of cultural organisations in producing and reproducing ideas of place through their public programming.
She holds a PhD from the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies, funded through the AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Her work investigates the extent to which and how public programmes function as sites for socio-political belonging and agency in the (modern and contemporary) art museum, with the goal of re-examining the role of museums in creating cultures of belonging.
Besides her experience in academic research and teaching, she is Programme and Digital Communications Manager at the UNESCO Global Network of Water Museums.
