Carolyn Birdsall is Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and currently serving as Vice-Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Her first book, Nazi Soundscapes (AUP, 2012) was the recipient of the ASCA Book Award 2013, and more recently she published Radiophilia (Bloomsbury, 2023). She recently completed the NWO-Vidi project TRACE (Tracking Radio Archival Collections in Europe, 1930-1960), which examined how European radio recordings were archived, circulated and re-used under conditions of war, occupation and reconstruction.