Martin V. Melosi

Martin V. Melosi is Cullen Professor Emeritus of History and founding director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He received the Distinguished Research Award and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History, the Distinguished Service Award from the Urban History Association, and the Esther Farfel Award from the University of Houston. Melosi is the author or editor of twenty-two books and more than one hundred articles and book chapters. He wrote the award-winning Fresh Kills: Consuming and Discarding in New York City, and more recently, Water in North American Environmental History. From 2000–2001 Melosi held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. He is past president of ASEH, UHA, the National Council on Public History, and the Public Works Historical Society.