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Reynolds Jr, Robert W.

Associate Professor
History
484-646-4353
Lytle Hall 152
reynolds@kutztown.edu
  • Degrees
    Bread Loaf Environmental Writer’s Conference, Middlebury College; Ripton, VT, 2018
    Ph.D. American History; Lehigh University; Bethlehem, PA, 2003
    M.S. Historic Preservation; University of Vermont; Burlington, VT, 1989
    B.A. American History; Gettysburg College; Gettysburg, PA, 1985
    Diploma; Newark Academy; Livingston, NJ, 1981
  • Publications
    PUBLICATIONS

    Books
    American Rustic: The Beaver Lake Colony. (Peer reviewed) [In process]

    Robert W. Reynolds and William Smethurst, Beaver Lake 1905-2005: A Centennial History. New York: privately printed, 2005. (Non-Peer Reviewed)

    Book Editor
    Emma Billig and Kayla Fusselman, Kutztown University. A selection in the Arcadia Publisher’s Campus History Series, 2016. This book was a centerpiece of the 150th Founders Day Celebration in September. (Non-Peer Reviewed)

    Book Chapters
    Robert W. Reynolds, “Passing on a Love for Old Cars,” in Family Cars Trigger Memories, by H. Kenneth Shook, 96-103. Bloomington: iUniverse, 2012. (Non-Peer Reviewed)

    Robert W. Reynolds, “Brought Along and Transformed: The Material Culture of the German Immigrants,” in Pfalzer in Amerika, ed. By Werner Kremp, Roland Paul, and Helmut Schmahl, 97-111. Kaiserslautern, Germany: Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz, 2010. (Editor Reviewed International Conference Proceedings)

    Robert W. Reynolds, “The Free Fishing Controversy of Sussex County, New Jersey,” in New Jersey’s Environments: Past, Present, and Future, ed. by Neil M. Maher, 90-108. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. (Peer Reviewed)

    Articles
    “Rock Lodge: A Recreational Nudist Resort,” Journal of the Society of German American Studies. (Peer Reviewed) [In process]

    “The Log Cabin: From Settler’s House to Summer House.” The Pennsylvania German Review, Fall 2004. (Non-Peer Reviewed)

    Editorial and Manuscript Reviews
    2012 Hired by Penn State Press to review a manuscript edited by Don Yoder entitled
    Ephemera Across the Atlantic: Popular Print Culture in Two Worlds.

    2010–Present Editor of Beaver Tales, a biannual publication for the summer residents of Beaver Lake, New Jersey. Numerous authored local history articles published in this venue.

    2005 Hired by the Pennsylvania German Society to review a draft and then the revisions to the draft of a manuscript by Cynthia Faulk, Constructing Identity: Perceptions of Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania German Material Culture (State College: Penn State University, forthcoming), for the Pennsylvania German Society’s 2008 annual volume.

    Book Reviews and Review Essays
    Mark Reinberger and Elizabeth McLean, The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America, Johns Hopkins 2015, Elizabeth Milroy, The Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682-1876, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016, Anna O. Marley, The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, for Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. October 2018 (Peer Reviewed Essay)

    Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees: the Anna Rosina Years, Part 3. Farwell to Sister Gambold. Volume 5. 1817-1821. Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck. Tahlequah, OK: Cherokee Heritage Press, 2014. Appeared in December 2014 Yearbook of the Society of German American Studies.

    Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees: The Anna Rosina Years. Part 2. Warfare on the Horizon. Volume 4. 1810-1816. Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck. Tahlequah, OK: Cherokee National Press, 2011. Appeared in the December 2013 Yearbook of the Society of German American Studies.

    Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees: the Anna Rosina Years, Part 1. Success in School and Mission, Volume 3. 1805-1810. Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck. Tahlequah: Cherokee National Press, 2011. Appeared in the December 2012 Yearbook of the Society of German American Studies.

    Ensminger, Robert F. The Pennsylvania Barn: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution in North America, 2d ed. Creating the North American Landscape. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Review published in the Vernacular Architecture Forum Newsletter No. 101, Fall 2004

    National Register Nominations
    “The Tohickon Creek Historic District,” Bucks County, PA, 2016.

    “The Erwinna Historic District,” Bucks County, PA, 1998.

    “The Uhlerstown Historic District,” Bucks County, PA, 1992.

    “The Ridge Valley Historic District,” Bucks County, PA, 1992.

    Contributing author, “The Fort Ethan Allen Historic District,” Colchester, VT, 1989.

    Newsletter Article
    “The Adirondack Tour–A Student Perspective.” The Newsletter of the Society of
    Architectural Historians, October 1996, 3.