Larry E. Humes is currently Distinguished
Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences,
Indiana University. He received his Master’s degree in
clinical audiology from Central Michigan University
and his Ph.D. in audiology and hearing science from
Northwestern University. He has been at Indiana
University since 1986, serving as department chair
from 1996-2001, and prior to that was on the faculty
at Vanderbilt University for eight years. He has
served on the editorial board for the Journal of the
American Academy of Audiology and the Australian Journal
of Audiology, as Section Editor or Associate Editor
for Ear and Hearing and the Journal of Speech,
Language and Hearing Research, and as
Editor-for-Hearing for the latter journal. Professor Humes
chaired a committee of the National Academies’
Institute of Medicine whose report examined evidence
of noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus in military
veterans since the 1940s. He has over 160 scholarly
publications and more than 230 presentations on a
variety of topics in audiology and hearing science.
His most recent research activities have been focused
on age-related changes in auditory perception,
including speech-recognition ability, and on outcome
measures for hearing aids. Professor Humes is a Fellow
of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative
Audiology (ICRA), the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association (ASHA), and the Acoustical Society of
America. He received the Honors of the Association
from ASHA in 2007 and was awarded the Alfred E. Kawana
Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications from
ASHA in 2008. In 2008, he received the James Jerger
Career Award for Research in Audiology from the
American Academy of Audiology and a Presidential Award
from the academy in 2010.
Dr. Humes is currently serving as Editor of the American
Journal of Audiology for the 2012-2014 term.
