Alexander (Alec) Badenoch is Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural studies. Until recently, he was also the where he was PI on the JPI-CH project and was member of the NWA Route Kunst small project "". 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 was the leading researcher on the HERA-project 鈥淭ransnational Radio Encounters (TRE)鈥� 2013-2016, and member of the NWA VWData Project "Capturing Bias: Diversity-aware Computation for Accurate Big Media Data Analysis" led by Prof Lora Aroyo of the VU Amsterdam 2017-2018. He is author of Voices in Ruins: West German Radio across the 1945 Divide (winner, 2007-8 IAMHIST Prize), and was founding editor of the Inventing Europe Digital Museum (www.inventingeurope.eu). He sits on the steering committee of the , is a member of the International Women's Broadcasting History group, was a co-founder of the and Transmitting and Receiving Europe (TRANS) research networks, and was a longtime board member (including Vice President and President) of the (German broadcasting History Society). His research covers a range of topics in 20th Century transnational history, as well as reflections on archives and heritage, draws on disciplines ranging from media and cultural studies, cultural geography, gender studies, and history of technology.
Badenoch's current research falls into two key strands:
- Entangled histories of broadcasting. What happens when we stop reading histories of radio and television as 鈥榤edia history鈥�? 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 鈥�Mediating Women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting鈥� 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).
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