馬丁·梅樂(lè)西(Martin V. Melosi),美國(guó)休斯敦大學(xué)(University of Houston)榮休教授,休斯敦大學(xué)公眾史學(xué)研究所首任所長(zhǎng)、歷史學(xué)教授,環(huán)境史、能源史、公眾史學(xué)等領(lǐng)域的國(guó)際知名學(xué)者。著有《環(huán)衛(wèi)城市:從殖民時(shí)代到現(xiàn)代的美國(guó)城市環(huán)境服務(wù)》(The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present,2000)、《托馬斯·愛(ài)迪生與美國(guó)的現(xiàn)代化》(Thomas Edison and the Modernization of America,1990)、《應(yīng)對(duì)豐裕:工業(yè)化美國(guó)的能源和環(huán)境》(Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America, Knopf,1985)、《城里的垃圾:廢棄物、改革與環(huán)境》(Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment,1981)和《珍珠港的陰影:突襲的政治論爭(zhēng)》(The Shadow of Pearl Harbor:Political Controversy over the Surprise Attack,1977)等,并主編《美國(guó)城市的污染與改革》(Pollution and Reform in American Cities,1980)和《公眾史學(xué)與環(huán)境》(Public History and the Environment)等。曾任全國(guó)公眾史學(xué)委員會(huì)(National Council on Public History)主席、公共工程歷史學(xué)會(huì)(Public Works Historical Society)主席和美國(guó)環(huán)境史學(xué)會(huì)(American Society for Environmental History)主席,還曾任城市史協(xié)會(huì)(Urban History Association)董事會(huì)成員以及得克薩斯州農(nóng)工大學(xué)出版社環(huán)境史系列叢書(shū)總編輯,也是《環(huán)境評(píng)論》(Environmental Review)的書(shū)評(píng)編輯和《南方文化百科全書(shū)》(Encyclopedia of Southern Culture)的顧問(wèn)編輯。