Emily Thompson
Born1962
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRochester Institute of Technology;
Princeton University
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
Fieldsaural historian
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Diego;
Princeton University

Emily Ann Thompson (born 1962) is an American aural historian. She teaches at Princeton University.[1][2][3]

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

References

  1. ↑ "Department of History". Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  2. ↑ "Eugenides, Thompson among new faculty members approved - 9/25/2006 - PWB - Princeton". Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2017-09-07. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  3. ↑ Marx, Nick; Kimball, Danny (2008). "An Interview with Emily Thompson". Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-04-06 – via britannica.com.
  4. ↑ "University of California, San Diego: External Relations: News & Information: News Releases : Arts & Humanities". ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
  5. ↑ "Chair's Column" (PDF). Department of History News. University of California, San Diego. Fall 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
  6. ↑ "Chair's Column" (PDF). Department of History News. University of California, San Diego. Spring–Summer 2005. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
  7. ↑ "Current Fellows Index (Fellows 2005 Overview): Emily Thompson". MacArthur Foundation. Archived from the original on 9 August 2006.


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