Alexandra E. Hui

Education
Academic Career
Honors and Awards
Publications
Presentations

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

-       European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) and Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS) 2010 Early Career Award.

-       Mississippi State University State Pride Award for Faculty Excellence, 2010.

-       Dibner Library Resident Scholar, recipient of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology Resident Scholar Award, determined and distributed by the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., for research to be conducted at the Dibner Library between May 1 and May 31, 2010.

-       Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Research Fellow Grant, determined and distributed by the College of Arts of Sciences and the Institute for Humanities, Mississippi State University, for research to be conducted between July 31, 2009 and June 30, 2010.

-       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

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

Publications

-      "Dead Ears and Dead Ends? Ernst Mach's and Max Planck's studies of accommodation in hearing as a basis for the theory of music,' Music, Sound, and the Laboratory during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Osiris, Vol. 28. Forthcoming, 2013.

-      "The Bias of "Music-infected Consciousness": the Aesthetics of Listening in the Laboratory and on the City Streets of Fin-de-Siècle Berlin and Vienna" Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Nominated as part of receiving the 2010 ESHHS/JHBS Early Career Award. Forthcoming, Spring 2012.

-      "Instruments of Music, Instruments of Science: Hermann von Helmholtz s Sound Sensations Studies, his Classicism, and his Beethoven Sonata,  Annals of Science, Vol. 68, Issue 2 (2011), p. 149-177.

Presentations

-       The Bias of Musikbewusstsein: The Carl Stumpf and Wilhelm Wundt Debate,  presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for the History of Human Sciences (ESHHS) in Utrecht, Netherlands, August 23-27, 2010.

-       "Noteworthy Neighbors? Hearing the Laboratory and Listening on the Street at the End of the Nineteenth Century," to be presented at the 9th Blankensee Colloquium on Hearing Modern History: Auditory Cultures in the 19th and 20th Century,  sponsored by the Kooperationsfonds of the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, June 17-19, 2010.

-       "The Aesthetics of Attention: Ernst Mach s Accommodation Experiments, his Musical Aesthetics, and his Friendship with Eduard Kulke," contribution to the Listening, Attention: Performance and Perception in German Concert Culture, 1865-1965  session, to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS) in Phoenix, AZ, November 19-22, 2009.

-       "Instruments of Music as Instruments of Science: Hermann von Helmholtz's Sound Sensation Studies, his Classicism, and his Beethoven Sonata," XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, July 28-August 2, 2009.

-       "Instruments of Music as Instruments of Science: Hermann von Helmholtz's Sound Sensation Studies, his Classicism, and his Beethoven Sonata," Southern History of Science and Technology (SoHOST), Richmond, Virginia, April 3-4, 2009.

-      “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.