The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910 (The MIT Press, 2012).
Music, Sound and the Laboratory from 1750-1980, Osiris, 28 (2013), co-edited with Julia Kursell and Myles Jackson.
Testing Hearing: Music, Science, and Industry, co-edited with Mara Mills and Viktoria Tkaczyk.
Selected Publications (see curriculum vitae for complete list).
My current projects examine the co-development of new listening forms and background music technology and the standardization of listening practices among field scientists in twentieth-century America. In particular, I ask how did shifting listening practices relate to scientific understandings of auditory perception? How did new perceptual systems co-develop with new sonic environments? My first book explored the relationship between psychophysical studies of sound sensation and music culture in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. My most general scholarly interest is in how new forms of listening came into being, were maintained, and possibly faded away.
Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University, 2008-2014.
Associate Professor of History, Mississippi State University, 2014.
2019-2021, Teaching Division Councilor, American Historical Association Executive Council.
2019-2024, Co-Editor for the History of Science Society.
B.A., Physics with Astronomy/Astrophysics Concentration, Pomona College, 2001.
M.A., History, University of California at Los Angeles, 2003.
Dissertation: "Psychophysical Studies of Sound Sensation and the Music Culture of Germany, 1860-1910".
PhD, History, University of California at Los Angeles, 2008.
For Full Curriculum Vitae, click /files/Hui, cv.pdf Education