Carlos A. Schwantes
Carlos A. Schwantes
Mercantile Endowed Professor for Transportation
Studies
One University Blvd.
154 University Center
University of Missouri-St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
email:cschwantes@sbcglobal.net
Carlos A. Schwantes is a St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed
Professor of Transportation Studies.
Education
Ph. D. (History), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
M. A. (History), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Teaching
Transportation in American Life; Transportation Landscapes;
History of the American West; History of the United States
Research
Author or editor of fifteen books to date.
Current projects include: "On the Move: Transportation Shapes the Twentieth
Century West," a book under contract with Indiana University Press "Workers
on the Anvil of Adversity: American Labor and the Phelps Dodge Copper Strike
of 1983," a book under contract with The University Press of Kansas
Other Activities
- Past-president Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
- Shipboard lecturer for Lindblad Expeditions since 1990 (on the Columbia River and in Alaska) and train lecturer for the American Orient Express Railway Company since 1995 (across the United States and Canada)
