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 stu ...

. She teaches at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

. She graduated from the

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

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 university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

, 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 ind ...

* 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 The American Studies Association (ASA) is a scholarly organization founded in 1951. It is the oldest scholarly organization devoted to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history. The ASA works to promote meaningful dialogue about t ...

* 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