Alexander Badenoch

Alexander BadenochAlexander Badenoch came to the Subsection History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher on the Transnational Infrastructures of Europe (TIE) project in September 2004. He holds a BA in Anthropology and German from the University of the South, Sewanee (1993), and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago (1995). Following a short period as a visual and performance artist in the Atlanta area, he took up PhD study in the UK at the University of Southampton's School of Modern Languages in 1999.
His PhD thesis, Echoes of Days: Reconstructing National Identity and Everyday Life in the Radio Programmes of Occupied Western Germany 1945-1949 was completed under the supervision of Prof. Alan Bance at the end of 2003, and is now published in revised form by Palgrave. 

Within the TIE project, Alexander explores the symbols of Europe employed in the building of Europe’s transnational infrastructures and the ways these symbols were interpreted and appropriated by users. He is a member of the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST), the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), and the Studienkreis Rundfunk und Geschichte. 

Alexander Badenoch
Utrecht University
Department of Media and Culture Studies
Room T1.10
Kromme Nieuwegracht 20
3512HH
The Netherlands
+31302537999
a.w.badenoch@uu.nl

 



 

PublicationsVoices in Ruins

 

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  • 'Touring between war and peace: imagining the "transcontinental Motorway", 1930-1950', in : in: The Journal of Transport History, 28, 2 (2007), pp.26-44.
  • "Time Consuming: Women's Radio and the Reconstruction of National Narratives in Western Germany 19445-1948", German History 25:1 (January 2007).
  • 2005 "Making Sunday What It Actually Should Be: Sunday Radio Programming and the Re-invention of Tradition in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949." The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 25:4 (October 2005). 
  • 2005 “More ‘Helau’ than ‘Hummel-Hummel’? Cultural landscapes in the programme of the NWDR Cologne 1945-1949” in: Briel, Holger / Fehringer, Carol (eds.), Field Studies: German Language, Media and Culture, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp.197-215