Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin.
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- Coping with abundance: Energy and environment in industrial America by Martin V Melosi (1985-05-03)
- Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America 1820-1980 by Martin V. Melosi (1985-03-03)
- Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Library of American Biography Series) by Martin Melosi (1997-01-17)
- Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Martin V. Melosi (2001-07-19)
Martin Victor Melosi
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Career
His research specialty is environmental and urban history. A native of San Jose, California, Melosi holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Montana at Missoula, Montana. In addition to environmental and urban history, Melosi also specializes in recent United States and diplomatic history.
He teaches courses entitled "Environmental Politics in the United States," "The History of the American City," "The City, Technology, and the Environment," "Energy and Environment in Industrial America," "Atomic Age America," Historiography, "Readings in Public History," and "in Public History".
From 2000-2001, Melosi held the Fulbright Scholarship Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. He has been a visiting faculty professor at the University of Paris, University of Helsinki, Peking University, and Shanghai University.
He has been president of the American Society for Environmental History, the Public Works Historical Society, and the National Council on Public History. He also recently has served as president of the Urban History Association.
Melosi has researched pollution problems and energy sources and how they have impacted urban growth and development.
He is a lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. His book The Sanitary City (2000, re-released in 2008 in abridged form) examines the development of water supply, wastewater, and solid waste systems in the United States since colonial times. He is working on a companion volume, The Networked City, which will examine energy, transportation, and communication systems in the United States.
In recent years, Melosi has devoted greater attention to global environmental issues in Europe, Canada, and Mexico.
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Works
book
- Coping with abundance: Energy and environment in industrial America by Martin V Melosi (1985-05-03)
- Coping With Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America 1820-1980 by Martin V. Melosi (1985-03-03)
- Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Library of American Biography Series) by Martin Melosi (1997-01-17)
- Effluent America: Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ) by Martin V. Melosi (2001-07-19)
Membership
Prior to his tenure at the University of Houston, Melosi was a member of the history faculty of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University in College Station.
