Rebecca Scales
Rebecca Scales
Department of Performing Arts and Visual Culture
2022 Submissions
Full Length Book
Potter, David Clayton, Friedericke Kind-Kovacs, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Rebecca Scales, Andrea Stanton, Simon. The Wireless World: Global Histories of International Radio Broadcasting. 1st ed. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2022. Print. *
2021 Submissions
Published Review
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia, by Victoria Schmidt. H-Disability Apr. 2021: NA. Web.
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Scales, Rebecca P. "Inventing Polio Care at the Colonie de Saint-Fargeau: Disability and the Welfare State in Interwar France." Department of History Seminar. University of Bristol. Bristol, UK. 24 Nov. 2021. Lecture.
Scales, Rebecca P. "Looking for Listeners in the Archives: Radio Broadcasting and Subversive Sounds in Colonial Algeria." Musical Encounters Across the Strait of Gibraltar. Cambridge University. Cambridge, United Kingdom. 20 May 2021. Lecture.
Scales, Rebecca P. "Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France." Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. 5 Apr. 2021. Lecture.
2020 Submissions
Published Review
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Politics Shaped Global Media,, by Diana Lemberg. Technology and Culture Jul. 2020: 957-958. Print.
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of Le deuil inachevé: La commémoration de l’Armistice du 11 novembre 1918 en France dans l’entre-deux-guerres, by Christina Theodosiou. First World War Studies 28 May 2020: 302-303. Print.
Scales, Rebecca. "Electric News in Colonial Algeria." Rev. of Electric News in Colonial Algeria., by Asseraf, Arthur. H-France Review 2 Oct. 2020: 1-4. Web.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
10/1/2019 -
1/31/2021
American Council of Learned Societies
Amount: 0
National/International Competition Award Winner
Institute, Co-PI/Co-Director Faculty Summer. National Endowment for the Humanities. Grant for Faculty Summer Institute for College & University Faculty. Denver, CO, USA, 2020. ≠
2019 Submissions
Journal Paper
Scales, Rebecca P. "La Tribune de l’Invalide: Radio Broadcasting, Disability Activism, and the Remaking of the French Welfare State." French Politics, Culture, and Society 37. 3 (2019): 53-78. Print. «
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Scales, Rebecca P. "Radio Broadcasting, Disability Activism, and the Welfare State in Liberation-Era France." Department of History. Leeds University. Leeds, UK. 29 Mar. 2019. Lecture.
2018 Submissions
Full Length Book
Scales, Rebecca P. Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France. paperback ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Print. *
Book Chapter
Scales, Rebecca P. "Jacques Lusseyran et l'étranger: regards sur l'Amérique." Jacques Lusseyran entre cécité et lumière. Ed. Marion Chottin, Cecile Roussel, and Zina Weygand. Paris, France: Editions rue de l’Ulm, Presses de l’Ecole normale supérieure, 2019. 87-104. Print. ∆
Published Review
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio, by Derek W. Vailliant. Business History Review 16 Nov. 2018: 570-572. Print.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
6/1/2018 -
6/31/2019
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Amount: $50,000
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1/1/2019 -
12/12/2019
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (declined)
Amount: $50,000
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National/International Competition Award Winner
Scales, Rebecca P. Institute for French Studies, NYU. Honorable Mention, Lawrence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies for Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France. New York, NY, 2018.
2017 Submissions
Published Review
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris, by Aimée Boutin. Canadian Journal of History Mar. 2017: 598-600. Print.
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Scales, Rebecca. "Radio and the Contested Soundscape of Interwar Paris." The Sense of Sound/Le Sens du Son Conference. Center for French Civilization and Culture, New York University. New York, NY. 5 Oct. 2017. Lecture. ∆
2016 Submissions
Full Length Book
Scales, Rebecca P. Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France. 1 ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Print. «
Published Review
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of Politics and the Individual in France, 1930-1950, by Jessica Wardhaugh. European History Quarterly 11 Apr. 2016: 413-415. Print.
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of The Imperfect Historian. Disability Histories in Europe, eds. Sebastien Barsch, Anne Klein, and Pieter Verstraete. H-Disability Jan. 2016: NA. Web.
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
6/1/2016 -
8/15/2016
American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant
Amount: $6000.00
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Invited Keynote/Presentation
Scales, Rebecca P. "Jacques Lusseryan entre la France et l'Amérique." Jacques Lusseyran entre cécité et lumière: regards croisées. Fondation Singer-Polignac. Paris, France. 28 Jun. 2016. Lecture.
2015 Submissions
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
1/1/2015 -
12/31/2018
Leverhulme Trust
Amount: UK 100,000
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4/1/2015 -
4/1/2015
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Amount: $6000.00
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2014 Submissions
Published Review
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage, ed. Karen Bijisterveld. Technology and Culture 2014: 18-20. Print.
Scales, Rebecca P. Rev. of From Pathology to Public Sphere: The German Deaf Movement, 1848-1914. H-Disability, by Yvla Soderfeldt. H-Disability Jul. 2014: NA. Web.
2013 Submissions
Journal Paper
Scales, Rebecca P. "Metissage on the Airwaves: Towards a Cultural History of Broadcasting in French Colonial Algeria, 1930-1935." Media History 19. 3 (2013): 305-321. Print. *
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Scales, Rebecca P. "La Radio aux Aveugles: Blindness, Listening, and the Politics of Radio in Interwar France." International Colloquium on the History of Blindness and the Blind: Representations, Institutions, and Archives. Fondation Singer-Polignac. Paris, France. 26 Jun. 2013. Lecture.
2012 Submissions
External Scholarly Fellowships/National Review Committee
6/1/2013 -
8/31/2013
Société des Professeurs de Français et Francophones d\\\'Amérique, Bourse Jeanne Marandon
Amount: $4,000
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2011 Submissions
Invited Keynote/Presentation
Scales, Rebecca. "Metissage on the Airwaves: Colonial Modernity and the Cultural History of Imperial Broadcasting in French Colonial Algeria"." Building Empires on the Air: Histories and Geopolitics of Radio and Empire. National University of Ireland-Galway. Moore Institute, Galway, Ireland. 1 Apr. 2011. Conference Presentation. ∆
Scales, Rebecca. "Subversive Sound: Transnational Broadcasting and Colonial Borders in the French Mediterranean, 1934-1939." Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. American Historical Association. Boston, MA. 3 Jan. 2011. Conference Presentation. ∆
2010 Submissions
Published Article
Scales, Rebecca P. “Subversive Sound: Transnational Radio, Arabic Recordings, and the Dangers of Listening in French Colonial Algeria, 1934-1939,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 52.2 (2010): 384-417. Print *