Emily Thompson

{{short description|American aural historian (born 1962)}} {{distinguish|Emily Thomson (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Emily Thompson | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Aural historian | workplaces = University of California, San Diego<br>Princeton University | patrons = | education = Rochester Institute of Technology (BS)<br>Princeton University (PhD) | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = MacArthur Fellows Program | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Emily Ann Thompson''' (born 1962) is an American aural historian. She teaches at Princeton University.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=emilyt |title=Department of History |website=Princeton University |access-date=2016-03-31 |archive-date=2015-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906134635/http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=emilyt |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/06/0925/12b.shtml |title=Eugenides, Thompson among new faculty members approved - 9/25/2006 - PWB - Princeton |website=Princeton University |access-date=2016-03-31 |archive-date=2017-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907182254/http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/06/0925/12b.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/34310866/An-Interview-with-Emily-Thompson |title=An Interview with Emily Thompson |magazine=Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television |date=2008 |first1=Nick |last1=Marx |first2=Danny |last2=Kimball |via=britannica.com |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-date=2011-06-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606212753/http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/34310866/An-Interview-with-Emily-Thompson |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/arts/Thompson_MacArthur.asp|title=University of California, San Diego: External Relations: News & Information: News Releases : Arts & Humanities|website=ucsdnews.ucsd.edu|access-date=2010-04-06|archive-date=2011-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612000546/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/arts/Thompson_MacArthur.asp|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/newsfa07.pdf |title=Chair's Column |date=Fall 2007 |magazine=Department of History News |publisher=University of California, San Diego |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-date=2010-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612120917/http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/newsfa07.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/newssu05.pdf |title=Chair's Column |date=Spring–Summer 2005 |magazine=Department of History News |publisher=University of California, San Diego |access-date=2010-04-06 |archive-date=2010-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612120823/http://history.ucsd.edu/_files/newssu05.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Awards== * 2005 MacArthur Fellows Program<ref>{{cite web |title=Current Fellows Index (Fellows 2005 Overview): Emily Thompson |url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1076861/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={86CDA030-FA8E-437D-918E-BE7479D7DF5F}&notoc=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060809133834/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1076861/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={86CDA030-FA8E-437D-918E-BE7479D7DF5F}&notoc=1 |archive-date=9 August 2006 |website=MacArthur Foundation}}</ref> * 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== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=7jvtvGbatv4C&q=Emily+Thompson ''The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933''], MIT Press, 2002, {{ISBN|978-0-262-70106-8}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=KOxFejqJ97AC&dq=acoustic+architecture+thompson&pg=PP1 ''The Architecture of Science''], Peter Galison, Emily Thompson (Eds.) MIT Press, 1999, {{ISBN|978-0-262-07190-1}}

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==External links== *[https://hnn.us/articles/19562.html "Interview with MacArthur "Genius" Winner Emily Thompson"], ''History News Network'', Jamie Rodriguez, 1-23-06

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