John F. Reynolds

Fall 2008
Office: HSS 4.03.48 Hours: M 6-7pm; W 11-12pm; F 1-2pm or by appt. Phone: (210) 458-7403 Fax: (210) 458-4796 E-Mail: john.reynolds@utsa.edu Vita: Web Site: http://colfa.utsa.edu/users/jreynolds/

John F. Reynolds, Professor of History, received a B.A. and M.A. from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Dr. Reynolds' main field of expertise is U. S. political history, with particular attention to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In 1988 he published Testing Democracy: Electoral Behavior and Progressive Reform in New Jersey, 1880 - 1920 with University of North Carolina Press. His second book on the origins of the direct primary will appear with Cambridge University press in 2006. His focus is on electoral systems (voting behavior, election laws, political campaigns) but teaches courses with methodological or technical bent. He offers the occasional course in quantitative methods and multimedia. He was among the original editors to H-Net's electronic discussion list devoted to multimedia (H-MMEDIA) and has given a number of presentations and written an article on using multimedia in the classroom.