Washington University Arts & Sciences
David Hadas Teaching Award
Awarded for exceptional commitment to first-year undergraduate teaching. Washington University Arts & Sciences, 2021.
Award announcement →Courses & Teaching
Teaching
Reeves teaches courses on American politics, democratic institutions, and civic life, with an emphasis on evidence, institutional reasoning, and practical engagement with democratic questions.
Classroom Practice
Evidence, Institutions, and Civic Judgment
Courses emphasize analytical rigor, close reading of evidence, and practical democratic reasoning.
Honors
Teaching Awards
Selected teaching honors at Washington University in St. Louis.
Political Science News
Delores K. Kennedy Award
Awarded for commitment to students in the first-year experience. Washington University Political Science, 2018.
Award announcement →Courses
American Politics and Citizenship
Courses on democratic life, American institutions, and electoral strategy.
Undergraduate Course
The Practice of Citizenship: Cooperation and Obligations in Democratic Life
This course treats citizenship as both democratic practice and a solution to cooperation problems.
Students engage political theory, American political voices, and empirical research to ask which civic capacities sustain democracy and what obligations citizens and institutions share in developing them. Readings span Aristotle to MLK and contemporary work on trust, polarization, and civic education.
Undergraduate Course
Introduction to American Politics
This course examines American politics in a period of polarization, institutional strain, and economic dissatisfaction.
The first half introduces core political science concepts and institutional foundations. Students then study the operation and evolution of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. This course is offered intermittently.
Undergraduate Course
Business of Elections
This course analyzes presidential elections through political science and business strategy.
Topics include campaign management, voter targeting, messaging, and the organizational logic of modern national campaigns.
Teaching Portfolio
Course Archive
Undergraduate
- The Practice of Citizenship
- Introduction to American Politics
- Campaigns and Elections
- Legislative Behavior
- The American Presidency
- American Elections and Voting Behavior
- Looking Back on the 2016 Election
- Trump's First 100 Days
- Business of Elections
Graduate
- American Politics Workshop
- Executive Politics
- Voting and Elections