Alexandra E. Hui

Education
AcademicCareer
Honors and Awards

Research Interests

- History of Modern Science: Physics, Psychology and the Human Sciences, Medicine and Mental Illness; Intellectual and Cultural European History; 19^th- and 20^th-Century History of Visual Arts and Music

Education:

-       PhD, History, University of California at Los Angeles, 2008

Dissertation: "Psychophysical Studies of Sound Sensation and the Music Culture of Germany, 1860-1910"

-       M.A., History, University of California at Los Angeles, 2003

-       B.A., Physics with Astronomy/Astrophysics Concentration, Pomona College, 2001

Academic Career

-       Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University, 2008-

-       Teaching Fellow, University of California at Los Angeles, 2002-08

Honors/Awards

-       Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Grant for pre-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, July-December, 2006

- Graduate Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship, University of California at Los Angeles, 2001-2002 through 2005-2006 academic years

- Cecil Short Memorial Prize in Music, Pomona College, 2001

Presentations

-      “Ways of Hearing, Ways of Listening: Musical Expertise in the Psychophysical Studies of Sound Sensation of Hermann Helmholtz, Ernst Mach, and Carl Stumpf,” presented at 2007 Joint Meeting of Cheiron (Society for the History of Psychology) and the European Society for the History of Human Science (ESHHS) in Dublin, Ireland, June 25-29, 2007.

- “Hermann Helmholtz’s Musico-Sensory Epistemology, his Classicism, and his Beethoven Sonata,” Columbia History of Science Group Annual Meeting at Friday Harbor, Washington, March 2-4, 2007.

-       “Musical Instruments, Psychophysical Instruments: The Sound Sensation Studies of Hermann Helmholtz and Ernst Mach,” contribution to the “Instruments of Music, Instruments of Science: Negotiating two Worlds Through Practice and Performance, 1850-1910” session, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, November 2-5, 2006

-       “Cultural Stamps on the Psychophysical Body: Mach’s Accommodation Experiments, his Musical Aesthetics, and his Friendship with Eduard Kulke,” contribution to “The Sounds of Science and the Science of Sounds” panel, University of California at Los Angeles History of Science Colloquium, May 22, 2006.

-       “Psychophysical Instruments, the Aesthetics of Music, and the Friendship of Ernst Mach and Eduard Kulke,” Annual Mephistos Graduate Conference in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Chicago, April 7-9, 2006.