Edward K. Muller 

Dr.  Muller is Professor of History and Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh.  He received his M.A. and Ph.D in Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and taught for several years in the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland before joining the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh in 1977.  He is a past chairperson of the Department of History and a Fulbright Research Scholar in New Zealand.  Author and editor of books and articles on the historical geography of North America, particularly cities, he co-edited The Atlas of Pennsylvania (Temple University Press, 1989), edited North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), and DeVoto’s West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good (Ohio University Press, 2005) and most recently co-authored (with John F. Bauman) Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).  He has edited a forthcoming book titled, An Uncommon Passage: Traveling History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).  Active in public history, he is past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area and former member of the Board of Trustees of the John Heinz History Center.

Downtown Pittsburgh from the air.