Participant Info
- First Name
- Isabel
- Last Name
- Huacuja Alonso
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- isabel.huacuja@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Assistant Professor, California State University San Bernardino
- Website URL
- Keywords
- South Asia history; Sound Studies; Radio; Borderlands; India; Pakistan
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am a historian of Modern South Asia with interests in media and the politics of state borders. My current book project, Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting and the Politics of Sound, follows radio stations in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Germany and parts of Southeast Asia as it argues for a new geography of radio based on language groups rather national or regional borders.
In addition to my work on sound and borders, I have researched the anti-colonial leader M. N. Roy’s unconventional sojourn in Mexico and translated an excerpt of an Urdu-language radio travelogue on the Grand Trunk Road, which crisscrosses the Indian subcontinent. My publications have appeared in Public Culture, South Asia, SAGAR, The Caravan, Scroll, and the Spanish-language magazine, Algarabia. At Cal State San Bernardino I teach courses on South Asian history, world history, Sound Studies, and media history.
I am a proud fronteriza, from the Texas-Tamaulipas border, and a mother of 2.
- Recent Publications
“Radio, Citizenship and the ‘Sound Standards’ of a Newly Independent India,” Public Culture (January 2019).
‘Jarnali Sarak (The Grand Trunk Road): Excerpts from a Radio Show by Raza Ali Abdi’ SAGAR: A South Asia Research Journal, 2013
‘M.N. Roy and the Mexican Revolution: How a Militant Indian Nationalist Became an International Communist’ South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2017
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- India, Pakistan
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Migration & Immigration
