Education
Rust earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from University of Michigan in 1989.
Rust earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from University of Michigan in 1989.
Rust is editor of Bisexuality in the United States and author of Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution. She has taught at Hamilton College and State University of New York at Geneseo. She has been critical of 2005 work by J. Michael Bailey that did not detect a distinctly bisexual male genital arousal pattern (although in 2011 Bailey"s lab did report finding it) and has advocated for more sophisticated models of sex, gender, and sexual orientation.
Rust serves on the New Jersey Special Task Force on Bullying, Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention.
Identity Politics: Lesbian Feminism and the Limits of Community, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1997, 26, 5, October, 564-567.
Rust is a member of the International Academy of Sex Research.