Alexandra (Alix) Hui is a historian of science specializing in the history and psychophysics of sound, and especially of sound studies in 19th- and 20th-century Germany. Among her publications are The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840-1910 and the coedited volume, Testing Hearing; The Making of Modern Aurality. She is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University and coeditor in chief of Isis.
With Lissa Roberts (University of Twente, Netherlands) and Seth Rockman (Brown University), Hui organized the 2022 Gordon Cain Conference, “Let’s Get to Work: Bringing Labor History and the History of Science Together.”