Alec Badenoch

Current position:

• Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent), Utrecht University, Department of Media and Cultural Studies

Worked with the Clariah Media Suite to enhance internationalisation and broadcasting history

Research project (2013-2016): Transnational Radio Encounters (TRE) IP 4 International Services Between Expats, Empire and Education

• steering committee, Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS) Network
• former board member and president, Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte

Education:

• PhD Modern Languages, University of Southampton, UK 2004
• MA Social Science, University of Chicago, USA 1995
• BA German Letters and Anthropology, University of the South (Sewanee), USA 1993

Me:

I am both physically and intellectually a nomad.  I have studied and worked in five countries, and in disciplinary departments ranging from German language and literature to the history of technology. These days, my research generally falls into one of two strands:

• • Entangled histories of broadcasting. What happens when we stop reading histories of radio and television as ‘media history’? Adopting an approach that is both transmedial and transnational, radio and television are approached less as objects of study in themselves than as privileged pathways into broader social questions and intermedial entanglements.  Current research together with Kristin Skoog of Bournemouth university looks into the entanglements of radio broadcasting and international women’s movements in the mid-20th Century.   Recent examples include: Badenoch and Skoog.’Lessons from Lilian: Is transnational media history a feminist issue?’ Feminist Media Histories 5(3) (2019)  and Skoog and Badenoch ‘Mediating Women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting’ Women’s History Review (2024).

   

  • Digital heritage and networked constructions of the past  How do (digital) archival structures shape our stories of the past?  Building both on practical experiences with online archives and exhibitions, as well as theoretical engagements with archives and infrastructures, this strand of research focuses on the problems and possibilities of networking heritage in the age of aggregation and convergence.  Of particular interest is the way that digitized archives reproduce or obscure transnational aspects of heritage collections.  Recent examples include Special Issue, edited with Emily Clark and Marek Jancovic: ‘Re-bordering the archive: European Transnational Archives and Transnational Entanglements’ VIEW vol 12 Issue 24 (2023)  and ‘Recalling Radio: An Archival View from Radio’s Second Century’ in  K. McDonald, & H. Chignell (Eds.), Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio (2023).

Besides research, I sit on the steering committee of the the Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS) Network, and am a founding member of the Internation Women’s |Broadcasting History group.  I have been a longtime board member of the German association for broadcasting history, the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte, and have been involved in a number of European research networks, including the Tensions of Europe network, and the Women’s Radio in Europe Network (WREN), which I co-ordinate with Kristin Skoog.

As a teacher, I have the great fortune to teach on the interdisciplinary humanities BA programme Taal- en Cultuurstudies and the Humanities Honours Programme in Utrecht, in addition to working on the BA Media and Culture and the MA Film and Television Cutlures.

Please check out my updated list of publications or my profile pages at the UU