Emily Thompson

Emily Ann Thompson (born 1962) is an American aural historian. She teaches at 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.

Awards

 * 2005 MacArthur Fellows Program
 * 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