The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting
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Simon J. Potter is professor of modern history at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on media history and imperial history, with books including News and the British World; Broadcasting Empire; and Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening.
David Clayton is senior lecturer in modern history at the University of York. He has written on the economic history of the British Empire in the twentieth century, with a focus on Hong Kong. His work on radio broadcasting has been published in the Economic History Review and the European Review of Economic History.
Friederike Kind-Kovács is senior researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Research, TU Dresden, and lecturer at Regensburg University. She is the author of Budapest's Children and Written Here, Published There, which won the University of Southern California Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies.
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is senior lecturer in the history of international relations at the University of Amsterdam. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history and has a special interest in colonial media networks.
Nelson Ribeiro is associate professor of communication studies at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon. His research focuses on media history, and particularly on international broadcasting from the interwar period until the end of the Cold War.
Rebecca P. Scales is associate professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is the author of Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France. Her research on cultural politics of broadcasting has appeared in French Historical Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Media History.
Andrea L. Stanton is associate professor of Islamic studies and interim director of the Korbel Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver. She has published widely on the Palestine Broadcasting Service, as well as on the BBC's Arabic Service and on the Egyptian State Broadcasting Service.
An Oxford University and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate, Alex Wyndham has voiced everything from Apple iPad campaigns to fertilizer instructions. He's also starred in several BBC and HBO shows, including the Emmy Award-winning Little Dorrit and Rome, and in various films.
