Alec Badenoch
Dep. Media- en Cultuurwetenschappen - Media en Performance S
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Alexander (Alec) Badenoch (1971) is Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural studies at the University of Utrecht where he was the leading researcher on the HERA-project “ Transnational Radio Encounters (TRE)” 2013-2016. He is also the Beeld en Geluid Endowed Professor of Transnational Media at the VU Amsterdam. He has a BA from the University of the South (1993), an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago (1995) and a PhD in Modern Languages from the University of Southampton (2004). He is author of Voices in Ruins: West German Radio across the 1945 Divide (winner,2007-8 IAMHIST Prize), and was chief editor of the Inventing Europe Digital Museum (www.inventingeurope.eu). He is president of the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte (German broadcasting History Society) and co-founder of the Women’s Radio in Europe (WREN) and Transmitting and Receiving Europe (TRANS) research networks. His research covers a range of topics in 20th Century national (German) and transnational history, and draws on disciplines ranging from media and cultural studies, cultural geography, gender studies, and history of technology.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Badenoch, A.W. & Fickers, A. (2010). Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe. (352 p.). Basingstoke: Palgrave.
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Badenoch, A.W., Fickers, A. & Henrich-Franke, C. (2013). Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War. (375 p.). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
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Badenoch, A.W. (2013). ‘In what language do you like to sing best?’ Placing popular music in broadcasting in post-war Europe. European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire, 20 (5), (pp. 837-857) (21 p.).
