Carol Reynolds, PhD

About Carol Reynolds

Carol Reynolds is a musicologist and cultural historian specializing in Russian, East European, and German cultural history. She also works extensively as a Smithsonian Expert, leading travelers through Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, and Slovenia.

After a long career as a professor of music history at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Carol and her husband Hank bought a ranch in North Central Texas and began raising goats. Simultaneously, they became fascinated by homeschooling as well as the renewal of Classical Education.

Together, they began designing curricula at the secondary level to teach history through the lens of the Fine Arts. Their signature course “Discovering Music: 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture” is used widely and was followed by “Exploring America’s Musical Heritage,” “America’s Artistic Legacy,” “Imperial Russia, and “Early Sacred Music.”

Next, they began developing programs for younger children and adult lovers of learning, including regular webinars on art and strategies for teaching history and the arts, opera workshops for those new to opera, and “boot camps” that introduce classic authors and great literary works.

Dr. Reynolds is a regular member of the “Classical Education Unhinged” along with Andrew Kern, Martin Cothran, Christopher Perrin, and Andrew Pudewa. She and her husband now live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which makes them practically neighbors of CiRCE.