Joanne Benham Rennick

Current appointment: Faculty of Arts (Global Studies) and Faculty of Applied Sciences (Global Non-Profit Management), Hochshule Osnabrück DE

Other faculty appointments have included the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics (Policy and Law); and the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Social Justice and Community Engagement and Religion, Culture and Global Justice); Faculty of Liberal Arts on the Laurier Brantford Campus (Contemporary Studies).

Senior leadership roles included Executive Director: Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation; Director: Social Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation; Ashoka Campus Change Leader; Director: Beyond Borders International Program (St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo).

Technology and Globalization (surveillance, community, effects of AI, gig economics, ethics, environment impact)

Alternative Economies (degrowth, circular economy, co-operatives, economics of care, etc.)

Education for Development (learning vs. schooling; capacity building for educators)

Military and Society (multicultural and diversified forces; international and intercultural collaboration; religious and ethical diversity within homongenous forces)

Monograph

1. 2011. Religion in the Ranks: Belief and religious experience in the Canadian Forces. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Foreword by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire. 224 pages.

Edited Volume

1. 2013. The World is my Classroom: International learning and Canadian higher education. Joanne Benham Rennick and Michel Desjardins, Eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 256 pages.

Book Chapters

1. 2021. Paradoxical Pilgrims: Remaking Religion in the Modern World. Walking the Camino de Santiago: Essays on Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century. Tiffany Trotman, Ed. Auckland: McFarland Press.
2. 2016. Co-author with Tim Donais. From Fragility to Resilience: Social innovation at the nexus of conflict and development in Africa. 61-76. Security, Education, and Development in Contemporary Africa. Izarali, Masakure and Shizha, Eds. New York NY: Routledge.
3. 2014. Canada. Religion in the Military Worldwide. 45-57. Ron E. Hassner, Ed. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

1. 2024. Material Culture: The transformation of a New England cotton mill into a centre for learning and cultural preservation. Fashion Highlight, (4), 58–65. https://doi.org/10.36253/fh-3061
2. 2019. Learning and Teaching as Emergent, Standardized, and Radical Concepts. Religious Studies and Theology. Special double issue in honour of Michel Desjardins. 1-2(38): 80-86.
3. 2015. Learning that Makes a Difference: Pedagogy and practice for learning abroad. Teaching and Learning Inquiry. 3(2): 71-88.
4. 2013. Is Religion a Force for Good? Reformulating the discourse on religion and international development. Canadian Journal of Development Studies. 34(2): 175-188.
5. 2013. Canadian Values and Military Operations in the 21^st Century. Armed Forces and Society. 39 (3): 511-530.
6. 2012. The New Mission Field? International service learning in Canadian universities. Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education. Rebecca Tiessen and Marc Epprecht, Eds. 2 (1): 91-107.

Technical and Research Reports

1. 2025. Faith in the Forces and Religious Diversity, In their own voices. Available at: https://www.warmuseum.ca/in-their-own-voices/
2. 2021. Post-Secondary Education in Canada. EURel-Canada, EURel Network, https://www.eurel.info/spip.php?rubrique1109, Jun 3.
3. 2021. The Royal Canadian Chaplain Service. EURel-Canada, EURel Network, https://www.eurel.info/spip.php?article3875, May 5.