Alexander Badenoch

Alexander (Alec) Badenoch is Lecturer in Media and Cultural studies at the University of Utrecht where he is the leading researcher on the HERA-project “Transnational Radio Encounters IP4 International Services Between Expats, Emprie and Education”.  A native of the USA, he has a PhD in modern languages from the University of Southampton (UK). He was a post-doc on the Transnational Infrastructures in Europe (TIE) project at the TU Eindhoven, and  postdoc at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and scientific secretary of the research Axis "material civilization" for the Laboratorie d'Excellence "Ecrire one nouvelle histoire de l'Europe".  He is author of Voices in Ruins: West German radio across the 1945 divide (Palgrave, 2008), co-author, with Sarah Moss, of Chocolate: A Global History (Reaktion, 2009) and editor, with Andreas Fickers, of Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe (2010), which presents some of the TIE project research. He is a member of the management committee of the Tensions of Europe network, and Vice-President of the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte. His research interests include European and international broadcasting history, technology and territorial identities, and constructions of domesticity and home.