Rebecca Scales

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, which examines how the airwaves became a new space for political engagement during the decades between the two world wars, transforming the act of listening into an important, if highly contested practice of citizenship. Her research on the cultural politics of broadcasting has appeared in French Historical Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Media History, and French Politics, Culture, and Society. With Alejandra Bronfman and Andrea Stanton, she is codirector of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Faculty entitled "Radio and Decolonization: Bringing Sound into Twentieth-Century History."