Doctor Reynolds' NKU Homepage

Born in Boston, but drawing on southern roots, Dr. Reynolds received his BA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he graduated in 1988 with majors in Honors History, Anthropology, and Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations.  After a short stint in the "Grey Collar" world of Bookstore Management, he enrolled in the African History Program at Boston University, completing his PhD in 1995.  His dissertation focused on Islam and political legitimacy in Northern Nigeria.  Other areas of graduate research included slavery and Development Anthropology.  He also completed graduate study in both Hausa and Yoruba.  Since 1990, he has traveled to West Africa seven times -- with most of his fieldwork being undertaken in Nigeria, Niger and Ghana.  Before coming to NKU (where he is quite happy), he taught in the African and African-American Studies Program at the University of Tennessee and at Livingstone College in North Carolina (where he received the Aggrey Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998). He received the "Outstanding Junior Faculty" award at NKU in 2001.

At NKU, Dr. Reynolds teaches courses in African, World and Middle Eastern History, as well as the European History survey.  He is co-advisor to the International Students Union and advises the Amnesty International Chapter.  He serves on a heap of committees, and is also the History Department's "Web Tzar."  Reynolds also served as the Coordinator for the Southeastern Regional Seminar on African Studies.

Reynolds has published in various journals, including the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Asian and African Studies and Comparative Studies in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East.  His "bookertation" The Time of Politics (Zamanin Siyasa):   Islam and the Politics of Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria, 1950-1966, was published in its second edition in the Spring of 2001.  Reynolds also has a book, entitled Africa in World History, under contract with Prentice Hall (along with cool co-author Dr. Erik Gilbert).

When not teaching or writing, Dr. Reynolds enjoys reading, fishing, bicycling and making music -- check out his most recent CD at:  http://mp3.com/jonathanreynolds . He can also be found playing live around the Cincinnati area with 46 Long.

Recommended Web Links:

Things Africa:
Africa South of the Sahara -- http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
Africa, Sights & Sounds of a Continent -- http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/
Library of Congress Africa & Middle East Reading Room -- http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/amed/
H-Africa Listserve -- http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/
African Newspapers on-line at Kiosken -- http://www.esperanto.se/kiosk/afrinews.html
University of Kentucky Web Links for Africa -- http://www.uky.edu/Subject/africa.html
Africa Maps at University of Texas (courtesy of the CIA) -- http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html

Things Global:
Paul Halsall's Internet World History Sourcebook -- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.html
World History Association -- http://www.thewha.org/
H-World Listserve -- http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~world/
World History Center at Northeastern University -- http://www.whc.neu.edu/

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