Jonathan T. Reynolds

Jonathan T. Reynolds received his BA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with majors

in Honors History, Anthropology, and Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. He completed his

PhD in African History at Boston University in 1995. He has taught at Bayero University, Kano, and Livingstone College in North Carolina (where he received the Aggrey Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998). He began teaching at Northern Kentucky University in 1999, where he has received the Outstanding Junior Faculty, Excellence in Sustained Research, the Alumni Association Strongest Influence, and the Milburn Outstanding Professor Awards. In 2018 he was named an NKU Regents Professor. He teaches courses on African, World, Imperialism, and Food History, as well as on Historical Methodology. Reynolds has published in various journals, including the International Journal of African Historical Studies, History Compass, Historically Speaking, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, and World History Connected. With Erik Gilbert, he has published Africa in World History and Trading Tastes: Commodity and Cultural Exchange to 1750. By his lonesome he has published Zamanin Siyasa (The Time of Politics): Islam and the Politics of Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria, 1950-1966 (UPA), Sovereignty and Struggle: Africa in the Era of the Cold War (Oxford University Press) and edited The 30 Second Twentieth Century (Ivy Press). His hobbies include cooking, fishing, larking about with his wife and kids, and playing and recording music with his band, 46 Long.