Dr. Alejandra Bronfman (PhD Princeton University, 2000) is Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies at University at Albany-SUNY. She has been on the faculty in the Departments of History at the University of British Columbia, Yale University and the University of Florida. Her book Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), considers the politics and poetics of sound and broadcasting in Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti in the early 20th century. Other publications include Measures of Equality: Citizenship, Social Science and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940, (UNC, 2004) and On the Move: The Caribbean Since 1989 (Zed, 2007). She is the co-editor of Media, Sound and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (Univ. of Pittsburgh, 2012) and “Listening for History”; a forum in the Hispanic American Historical Review (2017) as well as articles in Small Axe, Caribbean Studies, Gender and History, Radical History Review, Journal of West Indian Literature, and the Hispanic American Historical Review. She is the host of the Caribbean Studies Channel of the New Books Network. Future and past research interests include histories of race, the production of knowledge, and the materiality of media, its archives and infrastructures.