Martin Melosi University of Houston Department of History Houston, TX 77204-3003, USA mmelosi@uh.edu

Martin V. Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He was born in San Jose, California, and received his PhD in History at the University of Texas in Austin. His primary fields of study are environmental history, urban history, and the history of energy. He is the author or editor of fifteen books and more than 70 articles and book chapters, including the award-winning The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (2000). In April/May, 2008, he was visiting professor in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris. In 2000-01 he held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, and also has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Paris, University of Helsinki, Peking University, and Shanghai University. In 2005 he was awarded the Ester Farfel Award at the University of Houston in recognition of career achievement in research, teaching, and scholarship. He has been president of the American Society for Environmental History, the Public Works Historical Society, and the National Council on Public History. He is currently president of the Urban History Association.

             Books

• The Sanitary City: Environmental Service in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present, Abridged Edition (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)
• Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast (editor and contributor with Joseph Pratt) (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
• Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America, rev. ed. (Reading, MA: Longman, 2007)
• The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 8: Environment (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007) (editor)
• The History of Large Federal Dams: Planning, Design, and Construction (with David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson) (Denver, CO: U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 2005)
• Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880-2000, rev. ed. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005)
• Public History and the Environment (editor and contributor with Philip Scarpino) (Malabar, FLA: Krieger Pub., 2004)
• Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) (editor/author)
• The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present
• Urban Public Policy: Historical Modes and Methods (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1993) (editor and contributor)
• Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Reading, MA: Addison, Wesley Longman, 1990)
• Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1985) [Also published in hardcover by Temple University Press, 1985]
• Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform and the Environment, 1880-1980 (College Station and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1981; Environmental History Series #4) [Also published in softcover by Wadsworth Press, 1988]
• Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980) (editor and contributor; individual articles listed below)
• The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Political Controversy over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946 (College Station and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977; second printing, 1978)