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History
Faculty / Melosi, Martin V
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Martin
Melosi
Professor
of History
556 Agnes Arnold Hall
Ph: (713) 743-3090
Fax: (713) 743-3216
mmelosi@uh.edu
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Martin
Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History, Director
of the Institute for Public History, and Director of Graduate Studies
in History at the University of Houston. he has a PhD in History
from the University of Texas at Austin and an BA and MA in History
from the University of Montana. he is a native of San Jose, California.
(CV)
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Areas
of Melosi's teaching interest include environmental history, urban
history, public history, public policy history, and recent U.S.
history. Courses including Readings in Environmental History; Environmental
Politics in the United States; History of the American City;The
City, Technology, and the Environment; Energy and Environment in
Industrial America; Atomic Age America; Readings in Public History;
Research in Public History; Public Policy History; and the Historian’s
Craft.
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Research
Interests:
Melosi's areas
of research interest include urban environmental history, city
services and urban technology, environmental racism, environmental
politics, and energy history. His published work covers these
areas as well as topics in American diplomatic history, public
history, and the history of technology. A recent book, The
Sanitary City (2000) treated the development of water supply,
wastewater, and solid waste systems in the United States from
colonial times to the present. He has begun work on a companion
volume, the Networked City, which will treat energy, transportation,
and communication systems in the United States. In recent years
he has devoted greater attention to global environmental issues,
especially in Europe, Canada, and Mexico.
Book Listing:
Coping with
Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America (New
York: Alfred Knopf, 1985) [Also published in hardcover by Temple
University Press, 1985]
Thomas A. Edison
and the Modernization of America (Reading, MA: Addison, Wesley
Longman, 1990)
Effluent America:
Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001)
Urban Public
Policy: Historical Modes and Methods (University Park, PA:
Penn State Press, 1993) (Editor and contributor)
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)
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)
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