# Emily Thompson

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'''Emily Ann Thompson''' (born 1962) is an American aural [historian](/source/historian).
She teaches at [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=emilyt |title=Department of History |website=[Princeton University](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Rochester_Institute_of_Technology) with a B.S. in Physics in 1984, and from [Princeton University](/source/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](/source/University_of_California%2C_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](/source/University_of_California%2C_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](/source/University_of_California%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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}}

==References==
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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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