Professor Reynolds has written extensively on 20th century Egyptian history. Her recent courses include "Egypt and the Arab Spring: Middle Eastern Revolution in Historical Perspective" and "Women in the Modern Middle East."
A City Consumed: Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt, Stanford University Press, spring 2012.
Winner of the 2013 Roger Owen Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association
“City of the High Dam: Aswan and the Promise of Postcolonialism in Egypt,” City & Society, vol. 29, no. 1 (April 2017): 213-235.
“States of Law and Sexuality in the Middle East,” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 27, no. 2 (summer 2015): 182-193.
“Beyond the Urban,” a contribution to the “Public Space Roundtable,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 46, no.1 (February 2014): 172-174.
“Building the Past: Rockscapes and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt,” in Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Alan Mikhail. Pp. 181-205 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
"Entangled Communities: Interethnic Relationships among Urban Salesclerks and Domestic Workers in Egypt, 1927-1961,” The European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire, vol. 19, no. 1, 113-139.
“Salesclerks, Sexual Danger, and National Identity in Egypt in the 1920s and 1940s,” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 23, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 63-88.
“National Socks and the ‘Nylon Woman’: Materiality, Gender, and Nationalism in Textile Marketing in Semicolonial Egypt, 1930-1956,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 43, no. 1 (February 2011): 49-74
“Sharikat al-Bayt al-Misri: Domesticating Commerce in Egypt, 1931-1956,” Arab Studies Journal, vol. 7.2/8.1 (Fall 1999/Spring 2000): 75-107.
“Economics: Advertising and Marketing: Egypt,” entry for Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 4, Suad Joseph et al (eds.), Leiden: Brill, 2006, 118-120
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, January to December 2012, For the project “The Politics of Environment, Culture, and National Development in the Building of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, 1956-1971”
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History, 2010, The American Historical Association
Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University.
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Research Fellowship for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2016-18. For the project: “Grounding the Ecocritical: Materializing Wastelands and Living on in the Middle East”; with Dr. Anne-Marie McManus.
Arts and Sciences Summer 2016 Collaborative Seed Grant, Washington University, 2016.
For the project: “Wasteland Literacies”; with Dr. Anne-Marie McManus.
Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2014-2016; deferred to begin in 2017.
For the project, “Heat: Recent Egyptian Histories.”
Faculty Seminar Grant, Center for the Humanities, Washington University, 2014-2017.
For “Wastelands,” co-convened with Dr. Anne-Marie McManus.