Karin Bijsterveld is historian and professor in the Department of Technology and Society Studies at Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (MIT Press 2008), and co-editor (with José van Dijck) of Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (Amsterdam UP 2009). With Trevor Pinch, she is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2011). She has been coordinating several funded projects at the crossroads of STS and Sound Studies. One of these is the NWO-VICI project Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in Science, Technology and Medicine, 1920s-now.