Dr. Eric Rust

A native of Lübeck, Germany, with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Eric Rust joined the Baylor faculty in 1984 and is a History Professor at Baylor. He has also been on the World Cultures II faculty team since the inception of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. He teaches survey courses in World History as well as advanced-level and graduate courses on the Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern Europe, European Expansion, and Historiography. His research centers on maritime and naval history since the Renaissance, with a specialization on the German navies of the 19th and 20th centuries. Naval Officers under Hitler (Praeger, 1991) was the first of his numerous publications in this field. He is currently completing a biography of Lt. Oskar Kusch, the only German U-boat commander in World War II to be tried and executed by the Nazis for remarks and activities critical of the regime.