Daniel L. Rust
Daniel L. Rust
Assistant Director for Undergraduate Program Development
One University Blvd.
154 University Center
University of Missouri-St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
314-516-7254
rustd@umsl.edu
Education:
Ph.D. (History), University of Idaho
M.A. (History), University of Idaho
B.A. (History), Northwest Nazarene University
Teaching:
Introduction to Transportation; Aviation in American Life
Research:
While his interests span all modes of transportation, Dr. Rust specializes in the history of commercial air travel in the United States.
Current projects include Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience, 1927-1978, a book under contract with the University of Oklahoma Press. Scores of photographs, many from the St. Louis Mercantile Library’s Trans World Airlines collection, will accompany this examination of air travel from the passengers’ point of view through the prism of first-hand travel accounts found in popular periodicals during the formative era of coast-to-coast passenger service in the United States.
Forthcoming articles in Journal of the West and Aviation History will feature Dr. Rust’s research on the life of aviator Nick Mamer and the 1929 round trip, nonstop, transcontinental flight of the “Spokane Sun God.”
