Emily Thompson
American aural historian (born 1962)
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Emily Ann Thompson (born 1962) is an American aural historian. She teaches at Princeton University.[1][2][3]
Born1962 (age 63–64)
EducationRochester Institute of Technology (BS)
Princeton University (PhD)
Princeton University (PhD)
FieldsAural historian
Emily Thompson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Education | Rochester Institute of Technology (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Aural historian |
| Institutions | University of California, San Diego Princeton University |
She graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Physics in 1984, and from Princeton University, with a Ph.D. in the history of science in 1992. She was Associate Professor of History at University of California, San Diego, from 2005 to 2006.[4][5][6]
Awards
- 2005 MacArthur Fellows Program[7]
- 2005 Edelstein Prize sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
- 2004 Marc-August Pictet Prize presented by The Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle (SPHN) de Geneve
- 2003 John Hope Franklin Book Award presented by the American Studies Association
- 2002 Science Writing Award in Acoustics for Journalists, presented by the Acoustical Society of America
- 2003 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics
Works
- The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933, MIT Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-262-70106-8
- The Architecture of Science, Peter Galison, Emily Thompson (Eds.) MIT Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-262-07190-1
