Emily Thompson
Emily Ann Thompson 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
- 2004 Marc-August Pictet Prize presented by The Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle 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
- , MIT Press, 2002,
- , Peter Galison, Emily Thompson MIT Press, 1999,