Emily Ann Thompson (born 1962) is an American aural

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

. She teaches at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

. She graduated from the

Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional ...

with a B.S. in Physics in 1984, and from

, with a Ph.D. in the history of science in 1992. She was Associate Professor of History at

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is ...

, from 2005 to 2006.

Awards

* 2005

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

* 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,
''The Architecture of Science''
Peter Galison, Emily Thompson (Eds.) MIT Press, 1999,

References

External links

''History News Network'', Jamie Rodriguez, 1-23-06 1962 births Living people 21st-century American historians Rochester Institute of Technology alumni Princeton University alumni Princeton University faculty MacArthur Fellows American women historians 21st-century American women {{US-historian-stub